Didak apologises for lying
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Alan Didak has apologised for lying to Collingwood about a drink-driving incident involving team-mate Heath Shaw. (Getty Images: Robert Cianflone, file photo)
Suspended Collingwood forward Alan Didak has apologised for lying about a drunken night with an AFL team-mate and has appealed to the club to be given another chance.
Didak was in a car being driven by Magpie Heath Shaw when the vehicle crashed in Melbourne last month.
Shaw failed a breath test and both players initially denied that Didak was in the car.
Collingwood suspended the pair when the lie was exposed and Didak has told Channel Nine he is glad he eventually came clean about the incident.
"We were both pretty uncomfortable about the whole situation," he said.
"And in the end I went to Heath's house and we both said down and said 'look, this isn't the right thing to do, let's come clean.'
"And in the end we made the right decision."
Didak said the pair should have told the truth from the beginning.
"It's not the right thing to do and Heath and I know that now," he said.
"We both stuffed up and we now know that it was the wrong thing to do by us, and the club.
"[It could have] quite easily been solved if we'd told the truth at the start."
He said he hoped to resume his playing career with the Pies.
"I want to be part of Collingwood for my whole career," he said.
"I think people deserve another chance and hopefully I'll get that."
