Adelaide Crows coach Don Pyke says suggestions he may have had a physical altercation with dropped player Josh Jenkins are “disrespectful”.
Pyke told reporters on Thursday:
“If it wasn’t as serious as I take it, it’s quite laughable. At the moment what we’re facing as an industry — and we’re seeing that with other people talking — if people want to run with absolute fiction — absolute fiction — and put that into the mainstream and say that’s what happened…
“The concept of Josh and I being involved in a physical altercation — it’s laughable but I take it quite personally because it’s disrespectful to suggest me as a coach would get involved in something like that with one of my players.
“And when that gets thrown up I go, where does we stop? Because we’re now at a point whereby we can just put anything we want out there and it sticks and it’s based on absolutely nothing…
“I’m 80 kilos, he’s 100 kilos — I’m not sure how that’s going to work. If it wasn’t as serious as it is it’s laughable to be honest.”
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