‘Unthinkable': Carlton disaster turns for the worse as damning footage emerges
It comes as new footage exposed the club's soft underbelly at a time when coach Michael Voss is fighting for his job.
The most startling revelation presented during Channel 7's The Agenda Setters on Tuesday night was a suggestion more Melbourne clubs could soon enter the fight to entice Silvagni to leave the club when it is already on its knees.
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With Collingwood's interest in the 27-year-old well-documented in recent weeks, Seven's Caroline Wilson has explained incoming Carlton chief executive Graham Wright has personally become involved in the club's campaign to convince Silvagni to stay.
The veteran reporter said Wright spoke with Silvagni this week with the club only now realising Silvagni is a very real chance to sign with the Magpies.
The third generation Silvagni family Carlton player — and son of iconic fullback Stephen Silvagni — is having a career-best season and it would be a painful blow for Carlton if he chooses to play the rest of his career elsewhere.
'It would be as galling for Carlton people I think as if a Daicos went to Carlton. My understanding is this has become a top-order priority for the Carlton Football Club now to keep Jack Silvagni,' Wilson said on Tuesday evening.
She said: 'I think Graham Wright is genuinely concerned for Jack. He would know this would be something that is absolutely tearing him in two about what he is going to do.
'For some people this would be unthinkable.'
Herald Sun reporter Jon Ralph reported last week that the Magpies' four-year offer in front of Silvagni, which matches that of Carlton, is slightly more 'financially lucrative'.
Silvagni is currently sidelined with groin soreness, in a niggle that could well prematurely end his 2025 season — and by extension, mean there is a world where he has played his last game at Carlton.
To add to the pain, Collingwood great and former Carlton player Dale Thomas, who is friends with Silvagni, said other Victorian clubs are now beginning to realise they could also make a play to sign the star defender.
'Nobody ever thought this was going to happen,' he said.
'It was Jack Silvagni. He is Carlton. He is rusted on. The old man's a legend et cetera. Today, now that the door has been left ajar just a little bit, there's other Melbourne clubs that have gone, 'OK, we're sensing a bit of an opportunity here. There's a chance that we can pry him out'.
'It's not just Collingwood that's in the running to try and secure his signature'.'
Thomas said Carlton fans would be furious with club officials if Silvagni slips through their grasp.
'If I'm Jack Silvagni I'm sitting there going, 'why do I stay, what do I actually owe this club? I've carried the burden of the father-son',' Thomas said on Agenda Setters.
'There's no reason for that, it wasn't put upon him for any other reason than his dad was an absolute superstar, but that has been something he has carried.
'He's been last in, first out so many times, he's been played as a forward, then put in the ruck, put the shin pad on, used as a tagger, and then settled down back.
'The fans are in such uproar because they know when they come to the footy … he's bringing maximum effort, he plays with the heart and soul you want in a footballer.'
Damning footage exposes Carlton attitude
Footage of Carlton players playing nice with opposition players before the first bounce of games this year has exposed the club's soft underbelly.
That's the view Thomas, Kane Cornes and Luke Hodge took on Tuesday night's edition of The Agenda Setters.
Footage from multiple matches this year, including the club's loss to Hawthorn in Round 20, showed defenders shaking hands and giving opposition forwards no physical attention in the moments before the ball is bounced.
Port Adelaide great Cornes said the vision was 'awful'.
'I can't stand this,' he said.
Thomas was just as blunt.
'At park football you're told to shake hands… but then you defend,' he said.
'You put an arm across. You've got contact. You're shoving and showing some kind of aggression. Some kind of passion. Some kind of intent to show the opposition they're there and they are going to have a tough day.'
He went on to say: 'You shake hands. You take two steps back as a defender and then you put your elbow straight into their back and if they turn around you tell them, 'That's it all night'.
'And if they don't turnaround you do it again.'
The program also broadcast other pieces of footage which showed Carlton players, including veteran Adam Saad, showing a lack of effort against the Hawks.
Carlton next faces Fremantle at Optus Stadium on Sunday.
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