Sydney coach John Longmire has addressed Sam Wicks’ situation following the emergence of a report at the weekend.

SEN reporter Sam Edmund revealed that an alleged dispute occurred between Wicks and a teammate in recent days.

The 24-year-old was omitted ahead of Sunday’s clash with Richmond and didn’t play for the reserves side either, instead remaining in Sydney.

Edmund’s report outlined a situation involving multiple Swans players, with Wicks ultimately found “innocent”.

“Wicks had been accused of acting inappropriately with the former girlfriend of another Swans player,” Edmund said on SEN’s Crunch Time on Saturday morning.

“A thorough club investigation found that those allegations were categorically false, and that Wicks nor his teammate had done anything wrong.

“While all parties were ultimately innocent, the bad blood, which was brought into the open on a night out involving a group of Sydney players, had threatened to fester in the changerooms.”

Veteran reporter Caroline Wilson said on Monday night of the incident with a “senior teammate”: “The allegation became so heated and so potentially divisive during the week that by the time club bosses thought they’d got to the bottom of it, too much damage had been done.”

She suggested it was “a situation he (Wicks) could have contained a bit earlier”.

Longmire offered a coy response to a question about the incident post-game on Sunday.

“We made a decision this week to pick our best team that we thought could give us a chance to win,” Longmire told reporters.

Asked to clarify if Wicks’ exclusion had to do with the events of the previous days, he bluntly replied: “I’m not going into that.”