The Sydney Swans players caught up in the hotel stripper scandal have been sighted for the first time since the incident as they returned to the club on Wednesday to apologise to teammates and club staff.Isaac Heeney, Nick Blakey, Chad Warner, James Jordan and Riley Bice attended club headquarters upon the completion of their club suspension for a boozy night that ended with strippers being called to club hotel and culminated in sex assault allegations by the women against the players.Each of the players individually spoke and apologised to staff and the club’s AFL and AFLW playing lists for precipitating the scandal which contributed to the team failing to make it to the grand final.Heeney was the only player after the club meeting to address media, doing so with a brief statement.’It was really nice to address the whole club,’ Heeney said.’I was thankful they could give us their time and understanding, so yeah, it was really good.’ Sydney Swans star Issac Heeney was seen outside the club’s HQ on Wednesday afternoon James Jordan (left) and Nick Blakey (right) flanked Heeney as the trio returned for player exit meetings now the Swans season has concludedWarner and Bice arrived together first at the club’s base at Moore Park in eastern Sydney late on Wednesday afternoon, followed by Heeney, Blakey and Jordon in the same car.It was reported that the five players did not have their formal season-end exit interviews, which will come at a later date.There is much uncertainty about the players’ futures, with reports Blakey is keen to leave for a Victorian club, and whether they had burnt bridges with teammates and coaches. The five had not spoken in public since the club suspended them for staying out late, drinking and calling strippers to Melbourne’s Pullman Hotel after last month’s final game of the home-and-away season against Essendon.The club stressed the suspensions were for breach of team rules of behaviour and did not include sexual assault allegations made by the strippers against the players. Steffie Waters is pictured with Isaac Heeney, who appears to have been scrubbed from her social media Heeney and Blakey appeared tense walking back into the club’s HQVictoria Police said further news on their investigation into those accusations is not expected until late October.No charges have been laid, and any wrongdoing on the part of the five suspended players is not suggested.Police subsequently said Bice was not being investigated and would only be questioned as a witness. Chad Warner is the only one of the five players to have previously been spotted in public since the drama, stepping out in Sydney with his girlfriend Alice Hughes.Heeney’s fiancée Steffie Waters has in recent days appeared to scrub Heeney from her social media, where she has a significant following.Swan coach Cox had arrived at HQ earlier on Wednesday morning, before chief executive Matthew Pavlich briefly spoke to media. Riley Bice, Chad Warner and Isaac Heeney arrive at Swans headquarters for regular season-end player exit meetings and to address their teammates after completing their club suspensions.’It’s a natural thing that the players will come into the club over the next period,’ Pavlich said.’And the players at some point will have a chat to the broader group and the club.’Asked what he would want the five to say in their address, Pavlich said: ‘I want them to be themselves.’I want them to come in and do what we’d normally do at the end of a season, which is player exit meetings. Heeney was surrounded by media as he arrived at Swans HQ’If they’ve got something to say to their player group, if they’ve got something to say to the club, then we’ll hear them out then.’Blakey was reportedly seeking a trade away from the club, with Geelong and his dad John’s former team North Melbourne mentioned as potential new homes.The future of the other players was complicated by the fact the investigation into the sex assault allegations was unlikely to be concluded before the end of the upcoming player trade period.That meant any suitor clubs would be taking a risk that the players could face lengthy league suspensions if they are found guilty of a criminal offence.1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732)National Sexual Abuse and Redress Support Service 1800 211 028