The West Coast Eagles are traditionally dangerous.
Their 31.19 (205) to five.4 (34) loss final evening to Sydney was the membership’s worst ever and their highest rating ever conceded, because the Swans ran amok to register their equal-highest profitable margin in simply the third time an AFL membership has reached the double ton since 2011.
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Now, the AFL world has had the prospect to course of the extraordinary consequence as the normal powerhouse membership choose up the items from a loss labelled as “embarrassing” by head coach Adam Simpson after the sport.
Commentators and followers alike have stated it’s troublesome to see Simpson proceed within the position, although Simpson has only a few listed gamers to make modifications with, courtesy of the Eagles’ litany of accidents.
“It’s almost irrelevant whether an immediate coaching change makes West Coast better,” stated ABC’s Brett Sprigg.
“No coach gets through a loss like that.
“This wouldn’t be serving Adam Simpson either. Take absolutely nothing away from his legacy at that club, it’s surely time to move on.”
Former Carlton captain Mark Maclure stated “coaches don‘t survive this.”
“I don’t want to be rude, but they just don’t,” Maclure stated.
SEN 1116’s Nic Negrepontis requested whether or not the AFL wanted to intervene, such was the decline of a proud membership.
“Does the AFL need to step in here?” Negrepontis requested.
“This is beyond embarrassing for the competition.
“By step in, I mean the AFL should be forcing people within the Eagles to stand down for allowing the team to get to this point. It’s beyond negligent.”
SEN 1170’s Charles Goodsir referred to as the expertise of watching West Coast “boring and not a great advertisement for footy.”
Triple M’s Rudi Edsall referred to as it “hideous stuff”.
The Sunday Times, Perth’s main Sunday newspaper, ran an all-black again web page with Simpson’s head bowed, labelled his job “in jeopardy”.
Broadcaster Corbin Middlemas on ABC’s Offsiders referred to as the state of the membership and their board dynamics “fascinating”, and famous the chief expertise and information on the board, which incorporates Clayton Utz accomplice Paul Fitzpatrick, former federal Treasurer Ben Wyatt, and former Australian males’s cricket coach Justin Langer.
“It’ll be a pretty dark day today for everyone in WA,” Middlemas stated.
“The board are going to have a difficult decision to make.
“The interesting aspect about West Coast compared to other clubs, if this was any other club in the competition, I think we would all expect that a loss of that magnitude means that the coach goes.
“But the Eagles don’t feel the same kind of pressures that other clubs do.
“They have a whole heap of money in the bank – they have ten times the amount of money the AFL had when Covid hit, just in reserves, sitting there – so there is no financial pressure, people are queuing up to be a sponsor of this club.
“People are queuing up to be members. They pay 60 to 70 bucks a year, a few thousand of them, to wait in the wings to get a seat to be a West Coast Eagles member.
“If you want to give up your seat, fine, somebody else will take it – so there’s not the same pressures.
“I think that whole attitude contributes to that position that they’re in now, when there isn’t that edge to it, and they can tolerate the type of defeats they are – we can just see the snowball effect and it gets worse and worse and worse.”
Kane Cornes on The Round So Far was scathing in his evaluation.
“It’s alarming. I’ve said from about Round 3 this year that you can’t survive – and the coach won’t survive – a record like this and performances like this will put a full stop to that,” Cornes stated.
“Whether that’s this week or in the coming weeks, unfortunately for Adam Simpson, his time is coming to an end.
“They need to change things up because what we are seeing on the field, regardless of who is available – and they’ll keep referencing that and he did that again – the effort levels, they are not trying. And it’s their senior players who aren’t trying.
“It’s not giving a lot to your fans who are hurting, is it?
“We have sympathy for Adam Simpson to have to sit through that again, but the message is not getting through and there isn’t a response from his coaching through to the players.
“They tell us that it’s going to get worse. So if you’re telling us it’s going to get worse and you’re going to get younger and you’re going to go to the draft, that’s five years. So Adam Simpson is not going to be there in five years for results worse than this.
“So the West Coast Eagles – and he (Simpson) won’t be the only one – will have to make a dramatic change – and I suspect that happens this week.”
West Coast’s record administration selections are below specific administration selections have come below specific scrutiny on Sunday morning with the discharge of the AFL Rich List revealed by News Corp, displaying that West Coast gamers are a number of the highest paid gamers within the competitors.
Jeremy McGovern sits third within the league on $1-1.1 million a yr, alongside Tim Kelly in fourth.
Andrew Gaff ($750-850k) is in thirty fourth, whereas Elliot Yeo (forty ninth)m Jack Darling (fiftieth), Tom Barrass (53rd) and Oscar Allen (54th) all make the highest 100 record as nicely.
Source: www.news.com.au
