Retiring North Melbourne defender Sam Wright has thrown captain Jack Ziebell under the bus after an incident back in his first year of footy, where he was busted in a KFC drive thru.

Wright was caught alone in a car by the club’s dietitian back in 2009 but after 10 years of taking the blame alone, he has revealed that Ziebell had ducked into the restaurant to use the toilet.

“I did (get busted), but I think the story has grown some legs,” he told SEN Breakfast.

“I think it was myself and the current captain (Ziebell) actually, and he was driving the car and decided to go into the toilet so I took the wheel, got caught at the end of the drive thru while he was still inside.

“No one knows that yet, but they know that now. After all the years of me taking the blame!”

When questioned by Tim Watson about whether Wright locked the doors of the car to stop the dietitian from getting in and seeing what he had ordered, the 29-year-old confirmed the Whisp’s mail.

“I don’t know where you’re getting this information, but it’s spot on!” he said.

Watson, who clearly has an inside source on the matter, said the Roos’ dietitian at the time would go around the fast food joints trying to spot players.

“I have reliable information that the dietitian used to drive around all the takeaway places,” he said.

“This is when they played down at Geelong. The dietitian used to drive around all the places on the way back from Ballarat when they played up there or Geelong, specifically to bust players.”

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