Alistair Clarkson

Um, you, you have got the illness of a, of a player.

Um, and they're trying to deal with that first and foremost.

And to be fair, they're not giving a rat's ass about the 999 that are having a crack at them because all they're caring about is getting the health of the player back in, back in check again.

But they've got to deal with the other stuff, but yeah, it needs, it needs to be done because no one likes to see it.

Um, so some sort of investigation needs to be done and, and Carlton would be the first club that's sitting there saying we need to work out how the hell did that happen?

Um, cause it was obviously that he wasn't well.

Um, but, um, for, for that to become a poll and more or less saying, geez, if I was coaching Carlton, that wouldn't have happened.

Or if I was their CEO, there's no way that it's just like, Hey, come on you guys.

Some of the people that are making these comments in the press, the guys that have made those sort of errors in their lives or in their footy careers.

Um, and they just need to step back and just understand that, Hey, sometimes, sometimes this is pretty murky.

You sound angry with the media, is it?

I'm not angry with the media.

It's just the game, but it's the pile-on nature of it.

It's just like Carlton are dealing with an unbelievably unique situation around the care of their player that everyone knows because Elijah has been –

so open about the troubles and challenges that he's, that he's had to face.

And then we get an incident like that, which we can't explain and Carlton can't explain.

They might be able to now that they've looked into it more.

I don't know any of the detail of that, but, um, I'm just, I'm just concerned with the poll on that just adds to the trauma for both the club and the player trying to deal with a very, very, very difficult situation that they're facing.

Well, for a start, we've done the same sort of thing with McCurchill.

When some of these young players come into the game, I just mentioned earlier on that