Carlton Football Club has confirmed it has suspended defender Wade Derksen with immediate effect after he was charged with drink driving.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old was hit with criminal charges last month after allegedly giving a failed breath test reading after being pulled over driving in Jabiru.<\/p>\n
Derksen is due to face court over the allegations next month after being charged with driving while under the influence of alcohol.<\/p>\n
But in a statement issued on Friday, his club confirmed he will miss the first three games of the 2027 as part of the club\u2019s internal response to the allegations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile we acknowledge the upcoming legal process will carry its own penalty, Wade\u2019s conduct falls well below the standards we expect,\u201d Carlton General Manager of Football Chris Davies said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWade is fully aware how disappointed we are in what occurred. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe will continue to support him throughout this period as he takes full responsibility for his actions.\u201d<\/p>\n
The club went on to confirm Derksen has agreed to complete counselling following the incident and has apologised. <\/p>\n
\u201cI want to express how sorry I am for what I did,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe choice I made to get behind the wheel that day was unacceptable and is a moment I deeply regret. I have let a lot of people down and for that I apologise.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dersken is due to appear in court next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlton Football Club has confirmed it has suspended defender Wade Derksen with immediate effect after he was charged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[454825,497195,497196,376730,383301,376769,638,400079,497198,64,63,55,639,18586,486242,497199,22350,1108,266013,1545,497204,497206,497194,34155,497200,486250,39598,406067,388331,434448,218392,497205,497202,497201,67651,43961,235081,6622,1861,85,461615,409145,384457,380190,382205,497203,377724,409600,403086,497197,379341,410274,227141],"class_list":["post-930419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-s-conduct","tag-s-internal-response","tag-a-failed-breath-test","tag-a-lot","tag-a-moment","tag-a-statement","tag-afl","tag-afl-star","tag-alcohol-but","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-carlton-football-club","tag-carlton-general-manager","tag-carlton-star-wade-derksen","tag-counselling","tag-court","tag-criminal-charges","tag-day","tag-defender-wade-derksen","tag-derksen","tag-dersken","tag-drink-driving","tag-drink-drive-charge","tag-football-chris-davies","tag-friday","tag-full-responsibility","tag-his-actions","tag-his-club","tag-immediate-effect","tag-its-defenders","tag-its-own-penalty","tag-jabiru-derksen","tag-last-month","tag-newswire-sport","tag-next-month","tag-part","tag-people","tag-sports","tag-the-2027","tag-the-25-year-old","tag-the-allegations","tag-the-choice","tag-the-club","tag-the-first-three-games","tag-the-incident","tag-the-influence","tag-the-standards","tag-the-upcoming-legal-process","tag-the-wheel","tag-this-period","tag-wade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}