Carlton coach Coach Michael Voss is adamant the choice to signal ruckman Marc Pittonet for the subsequent 4 years doesn’t imply in-demand younger tall Tom De Koning is out the door.
De Koning hasn’t performed at AFL stage since spherical 5, however Voss stated the large man would “come under strong consideration” to face the Swans on the SCG on Friday evening with different golf equipment together with Geelong and St Kilda believed to be chasing him for subsequent season.
The 23-year-old is out of contract on the finish of 2023 and has delay talks.
On Wednesday, the Blues confirmed Pittonet, 26, had re-signed till the tip of 2027.
But Voss stated the membership wished each gamers in navy blue for the longer term and stated any options in any other case have been “just assumptions”.
“As far as we‘re concerned, I think what naturally people do is they look at one and that equals the other. It doesn’t, it doesn’t impact it at all,” Voss stated.
“What we‘re obviously really pleased with is that we were able to get obviously Pitto done and the position’s been pretty clear for us from the very start around where Tom wanted to wait until the end of the year.
“So we‘re happy to support that and we’re gonna get the best out of him as best as we possibly can and hopefully that means that he’s staying with the Carlton Football Club because we want him to stay. He’s an important person to us.
“But the ongoing chat around ‘is he here or isn’t he’ – I think there’s a lot of assumptions that get made about our list management strategy and they are assumptions and that’s it.”
Voss is beneath stress himself after shedding 5 of the previous six video games, with membership president Luke Sayers declaring, through a letter to members, that the performances “simply hasn’t been good enough to this point”.
But he additionally publicly backed the coach, who’s contracted till the tip of subsequent season, and Voss stated he felt that assist forward of Friday’s journey to Sydney.
“It‘s support for our program,” he stated.
“From our perspective, we feel like we’ve got a really good program here. We’re providing a really strong environment.
“We’re going through a bit of a tough patch at the moment that we hope we’re gonna work through, and through sticking together and staying pretty strong together by having a really challenging environment and given that clarity that we need, we feel like we can work through it.
“Our goals don‘t change, but at the same time, we’ve very much got our sights on this weekend’s game.”
Originally revealed as Carlton coach Michael Voss says Tom De Koning nonetheless wished after Marc Pittonet contract
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
