The St Kilda Football Club says today's Federal Court win against a 17-year-old girl banned from publishing naked images of players is just the beginning of their legal campaign.
The teen who published the explicit photographs of Saints' captain Nick Riewoldt and Nick Dal Santo on her FaceBook page this week did not attend the Federal Court directions hearing in Melbourne today.
No legal representative acting on the girl's behalf was in court for the hearing.
In orders to be emailed to the girl and posted on her Twitter account, Justice Shane Marshall instructed that for now, she not publish the photographs, which St Kilda says were stolen from Sam Gilbert's computer, or any other images or videos taken from that computer.
Saints vice-president Ross Levin says the players intend to sue for damages.
"When you get an order for damages, in the event we are successful in our claim, the order continues to be valid for up to 15 years," he told reporters outside the court.
"In the event that she tries to make money out of this, the misery she has caused to these four undeserving players, then we'll be looking for that money."
Mr Levin said if the girl disobeyed the judge's orders, she could be held in contempt of court which carried serious penalties.
"The woman clearly knew what she was doing when she published those photos," he said.
"We at the club, and all fair-minded people we would say in Australia, have been appalled at the delight that she has expressed in causing distress to these four players including, as I have said, some whom she has never met and who have never done anything to her.
"The woman has made it clear in her networking posts that basically she enjoys causing trouble for others."
The girl claims she took the photos herself while with the players in a Melbourne hotel room.
Justice Marshall said the best evidence available to him at present is that the photos were taken from Gilbert's computer.
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