Jen2310
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Looks like McCarthy wants to play for South Fremantle, so guess thats that. He will stay in WA. And that kid Jason Carter who was just suspended for drink driving, would likely be out the door too.
Cam McCarthy’s manager Colin Young says his client will lobby to be able to play for South Fremantle in the WAFL in coming weeks after reaching an agreement to move on from the Dockers.
And Young client Jason Carter is in a similar boat to McCarthy, potentially on the way to an early resolution that will see him move on from the club as early as next week.
McCarthy denied that ex-GWS forward McCarthy had quit the club, saying discussions over his future had been in the works for three weeks.
McCarthy is keen to play on somewhere else, but given lists might shrink next year that could be a challenge.
Young told Moneyball on Friday that when it was apparent his client wouldn’t be going into the club’s Cairns hub, the decision to move on was mutual.
“He is basically a victim of the virus. The club’s training groups were divided and he wasn’t in the main training group and it’s hard to get into it when you are not in it. Myself and his dad have been talking since a month ago about what happened if they took limited numbers into the hub.
“We had a discussion with the club in the last three weeks about whether he was in their long-term plans and could he be playing?
“He was brought to the club as a third forward and unfortunately has never had the chance to play that role for a long time in the side, so when the club said he wasn’t going into the hub we asked for an early answer on his contract. They said they wouldn’t offer him one, so we said we might as well get the deeds of settlement.”
“We are disappointed he hasn’t been given the opportunity to play forward over the long term, but I have spoken to the WA footy commission about him trying to seek an exemption. He is a South Fremantle player so he would like to play for South Fremantle immediately. He would have just been sitting there at the club, not in the hub, and basically been running laps, so what would he be training for?”
Carter was suspended by the club for drink-driving last weekend and, as a category B rookie, would be unlikely to win another deal.
A decision could be made on his future as early as next week after he was banished from the club until the end of the season.
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