The Kangaroos announced yesterday Daw had been banished to Victorian Football League affiliate Werribee indefinitely for “missing rehabilitation sessions and acting contrary to the club’s culture and professional expectations”.

North Melbourne coach Brad Scott last night clarified on Melbourne Radio 3AW that Daw had been untruthful when asked about a night out during his rehabilitation.

The news came the morning after an intra-club practice match, for which Daw was sidelined with a knee injury, and a two-day AFL community camp in Ballarat.

Daw proved highly popular with Kangaroos fans and the Ballarat community during the visit.

North chief of football Donald McDonald said inexperience was to blame for Daw’s suspension rather than over-exposure as the only Sudanese-born AFL-listed player. McDonald declined to answer questions about whether Daw had problems with alcohol or his attitude.

“He just has to satisfy the leadership group that he’s on the right track and he understands where they’re coming from,” McDonald said. “He’s a young bloke. He’s had an enormous amount of pressure put on him and some high expectations within the community. He’s a North Melbourne boy and we’ll support him 100 per cent.”

McDonald and North chief executive officer Eugene Arocca confirmed North’s leadership group, under new captain Andrew Swallow, met with Daw when the club returned to Arden Street, but would not detail specific conditions the leadership group had enforced on the rookie.

“He’s breached rehabilitation protocols and internal codes and as a result of those breaches ... he’s accepted the penalty and as a result of that he has to work his way back in (to the club),” Arocca said.