{"id":616028,"date":"2026-04-18T23:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616028\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T23:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:51:11","slug":"collingwood-players-claim-over-elijah-holland-behaviour-during-carlton-clash-afl-puts-blues-on-notice-over-investigation-latest-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616028\/","title":{"rendered":"Collingwood players claim over Elijah Holland behaviour during Carlton clash, AFL puts Blues on notice over investigation, latest updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Collingwood players reportedly informed the AFL that Elijah Hollands told them he was under the influence of alchohol during Carlton\u2019s clash with the Magpies on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Hollands finished Thursday night\u2019s game at the MCG with just one disposal from 60 per cent game time, and crowd footage of him behaving in an unusual way on the field circulated on social media.<\/p>\n

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The Blues addressed the incident via a statement on Friday evening in which it was labelled a mental health episode.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 23-year-old is continuing to receive the appropriate level of medical and wellbeing support, with Hollands\u2019 welfare remaining the number one priority,\u201d the club said in the statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe club also remains in contact with the AFL and the AFLPA, given the complicated nature of what occurred on Thursday night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Veteran journalist Caroline Wilson, however, said Pies players have informed the AFL, during the league\u2019s investigation, that Hollands had told them he had been drinking.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is the suggestion coming from Collingwood players, and Carlton have not denied (it) but certainly not confirmed (it), that Elijah Hollands was telling some Collingwood players that he had been drinking,\u201d Wilson said on 3AW on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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\u201c(Reporter) Sam Edmund said yesterday drugs were not involved. I am not sure where he got that information but I certainly can\u2019t confirm that. I don\u2019t know if he was drug tested.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, (he has) high anxiety and had a mental health episode.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson said she could not prove alcohol was involved but that there was strong insistence from some Collingwood players that there was.<\/p>\n

It comes as the AFL officially requested the outcome of Carlton\u2019s review into its handling of Hollands\u2019 erratic behaviour.<\/a><\/p>\n

The league in a statement on Saturday suggested it would continue to follow up with Carlton.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe health and wellbeing of every player is the AFL\u2019s highest priority,\u201d the AFL said in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe AFL has today requested Carlton to, once concluded, provide the outcome of its review of the circumstances relating to Elijah Holland\u2019s fitness to play in Thursday night\u2019s match.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe AFL will continue to make inquiries with the club in relation to the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collingwood players reportedly informed the AFL that Elijah Hollands told them he was under the influence of alchohol…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-616028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616028","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=616028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}