A young rugby league player sacked by the Newcastle Knights after a drunken rampage in Bathurst says the club failed to support him and the punishment doesn't fit the crime.

Dane Tilse was one of 12 players fined after the rampage through a student dormitory at Charles Sturt University, but the only one sacked by the club.

The incident took on more serious overtones as police set up a Strike Force to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct by a Knights player after a 19-year-old woman made a formal complaint that she was indecently assaulted.

Police said the woman was considering how far she wanted to take the matter, but Newcastle chairman Michael Hill said the club believed no charges would be laid and the punishments were to do with breaking a team curfew and player misbehaviour.

Meanwhile Tilse, his father Michael and his manager Todd Buckingham lashed out at the Knights as the trio began piecing together the 20-year-old's future.

Tilse had his contract with the Knights terminated on Monday night for conduct "contrary and prejudicial to the club and the NRL" while 12 players were fined a total of $50,000.

The club was also slapped with a $100,000 fine by the NRL with a further $100,000 fine suspended on the proviso there is no repeat incident in the next two years.

Tilse issued an apology for his part in the Bathurst scandal and choked back tears as he spoke about the events of the past 24 hours.

"I feel devastated that I have had a dream for long time - being a professional footballer and it's been taken away from me through a lot of fault of my own," Tilse told Foxsports.

"I feel it's disappointing that maybe the club hasn't supported me a bit more.

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