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Nick Riewoldt Photo Scandal - ST KILDA will move quickly to repair any potential damage to team harmony caused by captain Nick Riewoldt's fallout with senior teammate Sam Gilbert over the Facebook photo scandal. Neither Gilbert, from whose personal computer photos of a naked Riewoldt were taken, nor Nick Dal Santo, the other Saint who had a naked photo of himself plastered across the internet, will be making a public appearance to explain the circumstances, as Riewoldt did yesterday. Nick Riewoldt Photo Scandal But St Kilda chief executive Michael Nettlefold said the Saints would ensure that there was no lingering bad blood between five-time best-and-fairest winner Riewoldt and Gilbert, who expected to play alongside his captain in the Saints' forward line next year. ''In the normal course of running a club we'll work through those issues,'' Nettlefold said yesterday. ''They're both grown men, both professionals, and we'll be working...

AFL Photo Scandal on FaceBook - AFL St Kilda captain Nick Riewoldt says he is shocked and hurt that a photo of him naked, taken by a teammate in Miami, has appeared on Facebook. Riewoldt told a press conference in Melbourne he did not know the teenager who posted the photo of him and fellow players Zac Dawson and Nick Dal Santo on the internet, and found her action incomprehensible and distressing. The Federal Court yesterday issued an order restraining the unnamed teenager from posting photos on Facebook until a second hearing on December 23. However she said today she would post more photos once she opens a new Facebook page. “Yeah definitely, once I make a new Facebook page ... who's going to stop me?” she told ABC radio. AFL Photo Scandal on FaceBook Riewoldt said the photo was taken by teammate Sam Gilbert as Riewoldt got out of bed while on holidays in Miami 12 months ago. Riewoldt said he had asked Gilbert to delete the photograph and was disappointed he hadn’...