Carlton captain blasts 'factually incorrect' story

UPDATE: Carlton prima Patrick Cripps has deed backmost aft helium and and Sam Docherty were criticised aft reportedly staying successful a abstracted edifice to the remainder of the squad during past weekend's travel to Sydney.

The Blues were successful municipality to instrumentality connected the Swans connected Friday night, but lost a much-needed game to equine adjacent much unit connected everyone astatine the club.

According to The Age's Caroline Wilson, Cripps, the nine captain, and Docherty some stayed astatine a abstracted edifice to the remainder of the team, thing which she said "seemed a spot unusual to me".

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On Tuesday greeting Cripps took to Instagram to deed back.

"I tin bull disapproval astir signifier and losing but erstwhile it's factually incorrect and questions my quality and committedness to the squad it pisses maine off," helium said.

"This is the accountability arsenic players that we would emotion to spot with definite radical successful the media.

"For clarity for everyone, I stayed with the squad the full clip they were successful Sydney and joined my woman and household members connected the Saturday nighttime arsenic we had the play off.

"We aren't wherever we privation to beryllium arsenic a squad close now, but ne'er question my committedness to this squad oregon club."

Carlton skipper Patrick Cripps has travel nether occurrence for staying successful a antithetic edifice to the remainder of his squad (Quinn Rooney via Getty Images)

Essendon large Matthew Lloyd was captious of the determination connected Monday night, suggesting it could perchance origin part among Carlton's playing group.

"I'd beryllium amazed that you don't enactment successful the aforesaid edifice arsenic different players. That tin origin an issue," helium told Nine's Footy Classified.

"For example, if you alert to spell and play a crippled (interstate) and 2 elder blokes go, 'Oh we're going disconnected to a boutique edifice to stay', that's not what you bash successful my opinion.

"You enactment unneurotic each successful the aforesaid hotel, you physique that connection.

"The past happening you privation is (players) going, 'Look astatine those 2 blokes, they're successful that edifice and we're successful this hotel'."

Cripps flew backmost to Melbourne with his partner, abstracted to the remainder of the team, thing some Lloyd and Port Adelaide large Kane Cornes suggested was normal.

Star defender and erstwhile Blues skipper Sam Docherty is besides believed to person stayed separately (AFL Photos via Getty Images)

"I've got nary contented astatine each (about Cripps leaving Sydney later), erstwhile you lose, things similar that popular up," helium said.

"I was astatine the AFL this greeting doing a amusement and (GWS Giants captain) Toby Greene was there, truthful helium evidently hasn't flown location to Sydney aft they've beaten Geelong implicit the weekend.

"I deliberation we look acold much into things erstwhile teams are losing."

"I don't personally person an contented with that. I deliberation footy clubs bash this each the time," Cornes added.

"If there's a Friday nighttime crippled and the players person the pursuing time off, immoderate players volition take to enactment successful that determination and person a spot of a holiday."

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While helium defended Cripps' formation backmost home, Cornes was captious of past year's Brownlow Medal winner's play truthful acold this season.

"Clubs are coming aft him and they're coming aft him hard, and he's not having the interaction helium had past year," helium said.

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"You've conscionable got to beryllium connected the determination astatine stoppages. I deliberation helium stands stationary astatine stoppages excessively often which makes him easier to hug up.

"Last twelvemonth we saw him determination with powerfulness done the stoppage and bursting distant and delivering wrong 50, a batch of his possessions were successful the guardant fractional of the ground. Now they're successful choky and he's intelligibly not having the aforesaid impact."

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