Carlton Football Club

Carlton legend Stephen Silvagni has come under fire after snubbing his eldest son's 100th game presentation in a move that has raised eyebrows across the ...

“I hate talking about myself, but when you’ve played for a club for 17 years and you put your body on the line and supported the club all your life, for a person to say you’ll sabotage the trade and draft period, and for me, an outsider that’s come into the club and doesn’t know a lot about the club or me, that was probably the most disappointing out of everything that happened. Silvagni hit out at the press release in an interview with SEN at the time, calling it a “messy” situation. “The difficult decision to not enter into a new contract with Silvagni as GM list management and strategy centred around the increasing complexity of having two sons on the playing list,” the club said at the time. “The situation is not only a conflict for the club’s GM list management and strategy, but equally for those who work in and around him in the football department.” Stephen Silvagni left Carlton following a falling out with club management, with the club releasing a statement claiming that Silvagni’s position as list manager was a conflict of interest given his two sons were at the club. Indeed, the family links are so strong at Carlton that Stephen Silvagni was the list manager who drafted Jack as a father-son selection in 2015, but Stephen was nowhere to be seen on Thursday night after the game.