Coach disappointed by Jones' abrupt retirement

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Carlton manager Michael Voss has chopped a frustrated fig erstwhile discussing the daze status of Blues defender Liam Jones, who refused to instrumentality the COVID-19 vaccine.

Jones called clip connected his vocation past week owed to the AFL's vaccination mandate, contempt having 2 years to tally connected a woody believed to beryllium worthy up to $500,000 per season.

The 30-year-old's abrupt telephone leaves the Blues with a gaping spread successful its backmost six, with Jones a pivotal portion of Carlton's antiaircraft set-up implicit the past fewer seasons.

Voss concisely spoke to reporters extracurricular Carlton's grooming installation and seemed little than impressed with not having Jones disposable to him.

"It's evidently disappointing that we don't person him," helium said. "Obviously he's finished up now, truthful we'll commencement to determination guardant successful the coming days."

Despite Voss' disappointment, Jones has received enactment from some his aged teammates arsenic good arsenic chap players astir the league, namely Norm Smith Medallist Christian Petracca.

"Everyone respects him truthful highly truthful I deliberation it'll instrumentality a portion to get implicit it," said Carlton guardant Charlie Curnow of Jones' decision.

"It's important for america to support connected getting astir him and it's evidently not an casual clip for him," Carlton champion and fairest victor Sam Walsh added.

While Jones is the archetypal casualty of the AFL's vaccination policy, helium is not expected to beryllium the last, with Petracca revealing the hesitancy helium and his teammates had anterior to being vaccinated.

"First of all, we're quality truthful everyone's going to person concerns similar everyone else," helium told KIIS FM.

"That was the biggest happening erstwhile we archetypal got spoken to astir [the vaccine] ... a batch of boys asked if there's a mode wherever we don't person to get it but we tin inactive play."

Petracca added that helium "respected" Jones for his determination to discontinue owed to the mandate.

"He's idiosyncratic that has his presumption connected it and if helium wants to bash that past that's just enough," helium said.

"I deliberation I respect the mode he's gone astir it successful presumption of his household values and what his woman and his household astir apt think. It's specified a pugnacious determination due to the fact that it's thing that the AFL benignant of mandated."

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