Phil Krakouer and at least six others claim the league failed to protect them from racial vilification
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“If any formal correspondence is served on us we will review it,” they said. “Until that occurs, we are unable to make any comment.”He moved from WA’s Claremont to the Kangaroos with his brother, Jim, in the early 1980s, playing in what was then the VFL. He played 141 games for the club and seven for Footscray, now the Western Bulldogs.
“I was completely naive and full of dreams,” Krakouer said in a media statement. “I was hoping that great things were going to happen … the AFL [allegedly] allowed us to be abused and traumatised.”
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