Rock-bottom West Coast want a full clean-out of coaches and a senior core enjoying for money relatively than the membership, Eagles nice Scott Cummings says.
Cummings, who led the Eagles’ goalkicking in 1999, says sweeping change is required because the membership reels from a document 171-point loss to Sydney.
Coach Adam Simpson has been backed by West Coast chairman Paul Fitzpatrick however Cummings says a clean-out is required.
“I generally loathe seeing a coach get removed halfway through a season or late in a season,” Cummings instructed SEN radio on Monday.
“Or supporters screaming out ‘we want heads’ and ‘heads must roll’, stability is probably the number one thing.
“But with the West Coast Eagles, stability is out the window.
“They need a full clean-out. They need new voices, they need new faces.
“And they need players that give a toss because there’s too many there right now, I’m only talking senior players, that just don’t care and it shows.”
Cummings labelled the Eagles’ effort as “putrid” within the loss to the Swans which extends the club-record shedding streak to 12 video games – 4 of the previous eight defeats have been by greater than 100 factors.
“What I saw on the weekend was just putrid from senior players who have been there a long, long time who keep saying how much they love the club,” Cummings stated.
“At the moment I am seeing players play for cash, not for their club, they’re playing for contracts.
“There’s a handful of players that if they decide to go on at the end of the year, they are playing for money.
“Because there is no way in the world you can watch what we saw on Saturday and say that they care or have any pride in their jumper at the moment.
“For that reason alone, to me, says there needs be change.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
