FREMANTLE have denied allegations their players are dressing up as members of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Dockers were embroiled in controversy when assistant coach Steve Malaxos revealed players were dressing up in Ku Klux Klan gear and raiding each others' houses as a prank.
Fremantle chief executive Steve Rosich named Clayton Hinkley and Andrew Foster as the two offending players who dressed up in the costume, which consisted of a white mask, dark sunglasses, hat, scarf and Mulberry UK a white sheet that covered the body from the shoulder down.
Rosich said Malaxos had simply got his description of the costume wrong.
"We regret the media speculation,'' Rosich said.
Rosich said Hinkley and Foster would not be sanctioned for the prank, which involved them egging several teammates' cars and taking a photo of them crouching in front of the vehicles in full costume.
Rosich said the Mulberry Bayswater Bags prank was played on four of their teammates, none of whom were Aboriginal.
The controversy started when Malaxos, during a radio interview, talked Mulberry Factory Shop about several pranks being played at the club.
"There's a reasonable amount of pranks that are going on all the time,'' Malaxos told SportFM on Saturday morning.
"Sometimes they raid each others houses in like sort of Ku Klux Klan outfits and that as well, that's one of the other pranks.''
Rosich said the controversy had not created a rift with the club's indigenous players.
The Ku Klux Klan, also known as the KKK, is a white supremacist organisation which has a record of violence towards African Americans, Jews and other minorities.
The controversy is the last thing Fremantle needed after their 0-4 start to the season, which has heaped pressure on coach Mark Harvey.
Kangaroos pair Daniel Pratt and Adam Simpson were fined $5000 each over their chicken sex video scandal that made its way onto video sharing website YouTube earlier this month.
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