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The Herald Sun\u2019s Jon Ralph reported the club\u2019s \u201cofficial position is that Hollands had an off night\u201d.<\/p>\n
Voss said Hollands was \u201cpretty shattered with his game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI spoke to him after the game and he was really disappointed with how he\u2019s started the game. Really upset, sort of feels like he\u2019s let me down.<\/p>\n
\u201cHad a good chat with him so he was pretty emotional after the game. Didn\u2019t play a great game and he struggled to get his way into it, he was clearly really disappointed in his performance and obviously really important to the night.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe sort of feels like he\u2019s let people down but we\u2019ve got to keep supporting people through those situations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carlton coach Michael Voss said Elijah Hollands \u201cfelt like he let people down\u201d.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
Hollands ended the match on the bench with Voss explaining: \u201cHe was clearly disappointed with himself and he was disappointed with how he was playing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen it comes to the last quarter, you\u2019ve obviously got to work out what mix you\u2019ve got with five minutes to go, about what you want on the field and he wasn\u2019t having a great night. Constant conversations with him, and we obviously thought the best mix was to not have him out there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking on Fox Footy\u2019s post-game coverage, Ralph explained what was known in the minutes after the match.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is one we need to deal with with some sensitivity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe (Hollands) seemed to run around for about 60% of game time without a possession.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is footage which is quite disturbing and we won\u2019t show you – throwing the bird at teammates. Certainly it seemed at one stage he seemed to be in the Collingwood huddle.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know he\u2019s had his issues with mental health, he\u2019s spoken really bravely about his battles with alcohol issues as a result of that. We\u2019ll ask Michael Voss, they can tell us what they can.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome people will ask the question, did they do enough to be aware of the fact he\u2019s in the right state to come out here? He didn\u2019t seem to know what was going out there and in fact he finished the game on the bench.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe footage of him throwing the bird more to the crowd, to the fans, to his teammates, it is disturbing and we won\u2019t show that to you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Star marched for finger point dissent! | 00:39<\/p>\n
Ralph later said Hollands \u201cwas talking to Collingwood players about not being at 100 per cent\u201d and expects the AFL to look into the situation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are clearly working with an issue which has extreme sensitivity there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand it\u2019s going to be titillating for people to look at that footage, but their view is he\u2019s battled anxiety which he has spoken about before.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not something we\u2019ve seen in some time. Clearly they will have their care for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cMichael Voss spoke to him at length post-match. They\u2019ll work through whatever issues there are.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the same time in concert with that, the AFL will work through whether he was in a fit state and whether anyone did anything wrong \u2013 we understand football clubs, they have the care of their players at best heart.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they had any view that he was not in 100% control before they put him out there, they would not have played him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a really complex issue \u2013 it\u2019s one we\u2019ll deal with with some sensitivity. Even the Collingwood players, he was talking to them about not being 100%. Let\u2019s use that expression.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will play out in coming days.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we\u2019ll also be aware he\u2019s worked so hard to get himself back and has battled with mental health which he has been so honest about. So a challenge for the industry to deal with it in the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlton\u2019s Elijah Hollands feels like he \u201clet people down\u201d after an erratic performance in his side\u2019s loss to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-610844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}