'Have to be concerned': Hopes of 'wake-up call' for Oliver as details ...

AFL greats are hopeful Clayton Oliver’s hospitalisation will be the wake up call he needs, just days after Melbourne gave him a clear message to get things together off the field.

Oliver was hospitalised and then discharged on Thursday morning following what the Demons called a medical episode.

Seven reported Oliver suffered a seizure, then hitting his head, requiring a CT scan and X-ray.

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It comes just days after the Demons weighed up whether to trade the superstar midfielder following off-field concerns, including a lack of professionalism.

“A medical episode - some people are gonna read between the lines there. Some people that I’ve spoken to say they felt he hit his head after potentially having a couple of drinks,” the Herald Sun’s Jon Ralph said on Fox Footy’s Trading Day.

“This is a really worrying situation for the Melbourne Football Club. They’ve had so much that’s happened throughout this football season, they had last week (with Oliver) and all the dramas there, and they would’ve felt that the penny would’ve dropped.

“Unfortunately so many people out there are having sightings of Clayton Oliver, in the wrong places, with the wrong people, or doing the wrong things. Melbourne would’ve thought the wake-up call had been provided last week; that doesn’t seem to have happened.”

Oliver has moved in with Demons captain Max Gawn in recent weeks.

“They were chasing behavioural change, only two-three days ago, the conversation was being had about his professionalism, about his out-of-hours activities, and now they find themselves in a situation which is extremely disappointing,” North Melbourne champion David King said.

“We’re all worried about Clayton the individual, the person, the young man that is only 26 years of age, but he’s at a stage of his life where you hope he’d be taking control of his off-field actions and becoming a pioneer, a real leader for this football club.

“He’s been rapt across the knuckles, they’ve done all of that, so you have to be concerned. You have to be worried about where to from here and I know everyone’s reading between the lines but even if you’re not reading between the lines, it’s a matter of days since the club told us so much has to change, yet he’s visiting hospital.

“Everyone is concerned for him and where to from here.”

Hawthorn great Dermott Brereton added: “The first thing that flagged us to this type of behaviour was you’ve got a 26-year-old man needing to go and live with another adult male and his family to learn behavioural traits. That flags a bit of interest.

“I must say, let’s hope Clayton’s fine through this, and it sounds like he’s recovering alright at home, but let’s hope the best for his recovery. You’ve got to understand that we view a 26-year-old footballer as a mature person, and there’s plenty of young fellas out there at 26 who make a lot of wrong choices in life.

“And so we view Clayton as a mature footballer, and by league standards 26 is. But it would seem that he might not be a mature 26-year-old man yet, so you want to get the two closer together, hence you want that behavioural change. Hence we put him near a great role model in his captain (Max Gawn).”