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Star's career in jeopardy over 'abhorrent' allegations - CtrlF.XYZ

Star's career in jeopardy over 'abhorrent' allegations

2 years ago 97

Troubled Kangaroos youngster Tarryn Thomas' vocation is believed to beryllium astatine the crossroads aft the emergence of fresh allegations of misbehaviour towards women.

Thomas was stood down by North astatine the commencement of February aft allegations of threatening behaviour towards women, and returned to grooming astatine the extremity of the month.

In the aftermath of the caller allegations, the 22-year-old has been stood down from grooming until the nine "gathers much information", per a North connection connected Wednesday afternoon.

Veteran AFL columnist Damian Barrett suggested that Thomas' AFL vocation was successful sedate information pursuing this latest off-field investigation.

"I deliberation it's enactment shot tonight, I truly do," Barrett told Nine's Footy Classified.

"The mentation for playing again wasn't rather up to the standards the nine would've hoped.

"Even the rehab and the acquisition he's getting, adjacent elements of that ... determination was conscionable immoderate issues determination that person got the enactment radical questioning their ain decisions and the enactment of him to this point."

Barrett's presumption was echoed by Essendon champion Matthew Lloyd, who called Thomas a "major distraction".

"To spot them basal him down truthful rapidly conscionable makes maine wonder: is this the last straw for Tarryn Thomas?" helium told Footy Classified.

"They're a new, young enactment radical successful Jy Simpkin and Luke McDonald and what I find - and I've been done this earlier - is conscionable the drain that 1 subordinate tin person connected a team.

"Often you'll find that each your resources and each your energies are going towards a subordinate who is astir apt the slightest nonrecreational astatine your shot club.

"The different happening astir this, this isn't a $300-400,000 player, this is 1 of their astir highly-paid players who hasn't performed successful a agelong time. He was good disconnected his crippled past year, you could spot thing wasn't close with the mode helium was.

"Obviously helium had immoderate household concerns too, but I deliberation the drain that helium is becoming, helium is becoming a large distraction."

Thomas posted and past deleted an Instagram station with a photograph of himself with a tag suggesting helium was successful the Gold Coast captioned, "Are you inactive reasoning of me?", and was slammed for the determination by Geelong large Jimmy Bartel.

Bartel took purpose astatine Thomas' absorption and urged them to counsel the youngster.

"If the alleged behaviour is to beryllium anyplace adjacent true, it is wholly disrespectful to women and it's abhorrent behaviour, and that needs to beryllium dealt with first," helium told Footy Classified.

"We've got to recognize who's really astir him. Who is his camp? Every subordinate has a camp, we've each had radical successful our beingness that we thin on. Who is advising him astatine this point? Football is truthful acold distant astatine the moment.

"I get that it's a antithetic procreation of societal media and we don't recognize it the mode that procreation does.

"Whoever is advising him needs to beryllium connected the telephone due to the fact that it's incredibly tone-deaf. I cognize a batch of athletes similar to look to the US and it's a large happening astatine the infinitesimal being cryptic successful your Instagram posts oregon your Twitter posts, but you unfastened yourself up to each these questions.

"So whoever is giving him advice, conscionable code it down mate. Just work the room, and it's conscionable (a lawsuit of) perfectly not speechmaking the temperature."

Lloyd suggested that Thomas should beryllium demoted permanently to the VFL and urged his absorption to scope retired to Harley Bennell, whose vocation was chopped abbreviated owed to repeated off-field issues.

"I'd nonstop him backmost to the VFL permanently. I'm talking not adjacent bid with the AFL," helium said.

"I'd accidental spell and bid with Tom Lynch, who is the coach. Get a job, get a full-time job, enactment from 8am to 5.30 and past you commencement your grooming from 5.30 to 7.30.

"It mightiness beryllium excessively precocious for this, but if you're his manager Ben Williams, I'd get Harley Bennell connected the phone.

"He is astatine Port Melbourne trying to spot - and nary 1 volition - volition idiosyncratic springiness him different accidental to ever play AFL football, which helium blew.

"He'll (Thomas) realise successful a fewer years' clip conscionable however overmuch helium has wasted astonishing endowment and an AFL career."

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Thomas was selected eighth wide successful the 2018 draught by the Kangaroos aft being a portion of the club's Next Generation Academy.

He has made 57 appearances for the nine since making his debut successful 2019 and has a declaration which runs done to the extremity of 2024.

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