West Coast nice Ben Cousins has weighed in on the Eagles’ struggles and Adam Simpson’s future on the membership.
With West Coast already registering three triple-figure defeats within the opening half of the marketing campaign, followers and critics have turned up the warmth on the embattled and injury-riddled membership.
But Cousins, who received the 2005 Brownlow Medal, mentioned there are not any fast fixes, and the membership might want to swallow their pleasure and be shrewd drafters.
“It’s hard to see any quick fixes,” he mentioned on Channel 7’s The Game.
“They’ve just got to persevere, stay upbeat and continue to bring good preparation and effort week in and week out.
“People are going to need to be patient; the long-term solution lies in going into the draft.
“The process started in the last draft, and I think they drafted really well, and if they can do that for one, two, three, four years, that’s the long-term (goal).”
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The 44-year-old additionally went into bat for the Eagles’ under-fire head coach, who’s on a club-record 11-game dropping streak.
“I think any talk of changing and making any wholesale and big changes at this stage of the year would be crazy,” he mentioned.
“The issues and the problem is far bigger than a change like that.
“They need to weather the storm.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
