The Collingwood Football Club has lodged its response to the allegations filed in court accusing club chief executive Craig Kelly of racism.
The Collingwood Football Club has taken aim at its former head of First Nations’ strategy, declaring his allegations of racism against club chief executive Craig Kelly are “embarrassing” and “objectionable”.
Through lawyer Henry Skene, of Seyfarth Shaw Australia, the Magpies claim Cleaver’s statement “includes various allegations of fact and law which are objectionable, irrelevant, vague, embarrassing and liable to be struck out”.The Magpies say Cleaver was sacked “solely because it was satisfied that he had engaged in misconduct”.
In response, the Magpies claim “this was untrue; this was not the true substance of his complaint about this incident; the true substance of his complaint was in entirely different terms”. “I don’t give a f--- what you put in there,” Kelly is alleged to have said. “I don’t give a f--- if you put a live f---ing possum in there.”
Cleaver also alleges in the documents that Kelly was physically rough with him on numerous occasions. He reported the alleged assaults to Victoria Police, which investigated the matter but ended the probe due to insufficient evidence with no charges laid. “Just wait to see the outcome of these proceedings before you finally make a judgment on that,” Browne said.
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