‘Five or more men’: AFL team hit with shock porn bombshell

A former Collingwood star has detailed explosive new allegations against the Magpies and labelled his old coach “paranoid”.

Ex-Collingwood star Heritier Lumumba has levelled a series of new allegations of misconduct at his former club.

In a dossier given to the Herald Sun, Lumumba details several new allegations against senior figures at the Magpies including the use of a pornographic image in a 2014 team meeting by an assistant coach.

“An assistant coach showed a pornographic image during a team meeting to emphasise a point that he was making,” Lumumba said in the dossier.

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“One of the team rules was to ‘come forward’, so he showed an image of a group of about five or more men ejaculating on a woman’s face with the words ‘come forward’ as a caption.

“Nathan Buckley was the head coach and seemed unfazed by it all.”

Nathan Buckley and Heritier Lumumba in 2013. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

Heritier Lumumba has levelled new allegations at Collingwood. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

Lumumba also claimed former CEO Gary Pert made sexually inappropriate comments in front of players’ wives and partners during a night out in 2011.

He demanded an apology and Pert was forced to apologise to the players but Lumumba said he felt targeted afterwards.

The document also revealed the extent of his ongoing dispute with former Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley.

The 2010 premiership player said in his final year at the Magpies: “Buckley became increasingly paranoid about me.

“In team meetings I would constantly catch him staring at me, and even when he was speaking in front of the group he would consistently glance down at me.

“It became too much for me, so I confronted him about it privately. He claimed that he felt I was judging him for his intelligence, and that I was demanding too much from the club.

“When it came to the culture of the club he became hyper defensive about being held to the standards and values he was supposed to be leading.”

Nathan Buckley and Heritier Lumumba after a Collingwood win in 2013. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

Lumumba has spoken out repeatedly over an alleged racist culture he says existed at Collingwood during his time with the AFL giant. He says there was a culture of “racist jokes” and alleges he was referred to as “Chimp” by teammates.

He originally planned to present his dossier to Collingwood as part of the reconciliation process following the Do Better racism report, which eventually led to Eddie McGuire’s resignation as Magpies president.

But that hasn’t happened after Lumumba, Leon Davis and Andrew Krakouer formally severed ties completely with the club last month over its handling of allegations of racism.

Buckley responded to Lumumba’s claims on radio on Monday morning.

“I’m not going to be drawn into detail and I’m not going to say that Heritier’s right here, wrong here because that is his perspective of the truth,” Buckley told SEN.

“But there are other versions of the truth that are a long way away from the way that he perceives it.

“Mine is very different from what he presents, but the context becomes important and the whole idea of the process is to have open dialogue, respectful dialogue so that you can actually move forward in a positive way.

“It seems that Heritier doesn’t really want to move forward unless, I don’t know, heads need to roll. I don’t know exactly what he’s looking for or what his requirements are to feel like he has been heard.

Lumumba has previously spoken out about alleged racism at Collingwood. Photo: Daniel Wilkins.

“He has been apologised to – I’ve apologised to him; the club has apologised to him … for the environment that he’s been in – and not just Heritier – but the other Indigenous players that have come through.

“I haven’t been perfect as a leader. I haven’t been perfect as a person.

“I consciously thought of this – I put my head on the pillow last night and I slept well because I know that I have owned my imperfections and I’ve owned the things that I’m responsible for.

“My conscience is clear in that regard – it doesn’t mean I’ve been perfect, it doesn’t mean I couldn’t have done things better – but I’m open-minded to continue to learn and I think the club is as well.”

Buckley was asked specifically about Lumumba’s allegations of a pornographic image being used in a team meeting.

“What I’d say here (is) I’m not going to go to detail of what is in there (the dossier),” Buckley said.

“There’s a lot that’s not right in there. One thing I know is if you start denying one and then talking about another then it creates a highlight of an issue that I reckon across the board that is not the truth that I know to be true.”