Hollands "shattered" amid worrying video from MCG

Carlton's Elijah Hollands was "shattered" with his performance against Collingwood, according to Michael Voss who has asked for sensitivity in the media's handling of the fallout from the round 6 defeat.

The 23-year-old finished the game with just one disposal from 60 per cent game time and there were immediate concerns for his welfare after vision of him behaving in an erratic manner during the match started circulating on social media.

An erratic looking Hollands is seen flipping the bird to his teammates and the crowd. At times he appeared disorientated.

“He’s pretty shattered with his game,” Voss said of Hollands.

“I spoke to him after the game and he was really disappointed with how he started the game, really upset, sort of feels like he’s let me down.

“I had a good chat with him. He was pretty emotional after the game.

“He didn’t play a great game and he struggled to get his way into it, and feels obviously clearly really disappointed with his performance, and obviously with the importance of the night, he feels like he’s let people down.

“We’ve just got to keep supporting people through those situations.”

SEN's Tom Morris shared the vision after the siren saying: "Elijah Hollands is unfortunately one of the biggest stories of the night. Carlton will need to lean into the welfare component, but also offer some sort of explanation to its fans.

"60% game time & 0 disposals."

Hollands, who won his spot back on the Carlton list having been delisted in October, has spoken of his mental health struggles and the dark times saying he often turned to alcohol as a coping mechanism.

“In some of the darker times, I turned to alcohol to cope with some of the stresses I had been putting myself under, and the mental fatigue and battles I had been going through.” Hollands told Nine last year.

“It very much has been a thing I have done in isolation, which is obviously a battle. It hasn’t been a thing where I have been out with mates and taking things too far in public areas – it’s been in isolation and at home.”

The MCG clash finished in what is becoming typical Carlton style; having led at half-time the Blues lost by five point s after Talor Byrne missed the chance to draw the match with a kick after the final siren.