FOOTBALL clubs have a lot to put up with off the field.

It’s a common theme for many with rape allegations hovering over the club’s reputation.

Montmorency of the Northern Football League is the latest to come under threat.

Three players have been charged after police alleged the women were held prisoner and repeatedly raped by footballers in Phillip Island.

The two 18-year-olds Trent Cantwell and Ruben James Mineo were named.

The 17-year-old wasn’t.

It should be a name and shame thing for all three despite their ages.

Surely it isn’t fair that two of the three cop the public humiliation and the other gets off with barely a red face.

There was a Werribee DVD rape allegation at Werribee Secondary College two years ago.

Because the alleged were under the age of 18, names weren’t identified but on community vote at the time, most were wanting to know the names.

Yes it would put the families in the firing line. But at least the alleged would learn a lesson.

It would be interesting to find a statistic of those not named and if they go on to form more criminal acts in the future than those named.

Maybe it’s time for judiciary to make a stance on this and help turn the spotlight off the football clubs and the sport in general and moreso on those who did the deed.