West Coast premiership hero Will Schofield has blasted the Eagles’ resolution to half methods with Warren Kofoed, saying the long-time power and conditioning supervisor should not be the autumn man for the membership’s woes.
The Eagles introduced on Monday evening that Kofoed, who has been on the membership for 15 years, will step down from his place on the finish of the 12 months “to pursue other opportunities”.
It comes amidst a crippling damage run that has closely contributed to West Coast successful simply three of their previous 40 matches.
The Eagles hit all-time low final Saturday after they misplaced to Sydney by 171 factors.
Calls are rising for coach Adam Simpson and chief government Trevor Nisbett to be sacked, and Schofield was left surprised when the news got here out of Kofoed’s impending departure.
“What a remarkable time to release this,” Schofield tweeted.
“I’m sorry, but he ain’t and shouldn’t be the fall guy for this.
“In my 10 years underneath Warren Kofoed, myself nor teammates weren’t ravaged by accidents.”
The news of Kofoed’s departure came on yet another messy day of damage control for the Eagles after dual premiership player Chris Waterman hit out at the club for their treatment of his son Jake.
Jake Waterman’s AFL career is in doubt after being diagnosed with a serious medical condition that resulted in him being hospitalised for more than a week earlier this month.
Chris Waterman, who won the 1992 and 1994 flags with West Coast, revealed his son is battling ulcerative colitis – an inflammatory bowel disease that is an autoimmune condition.
“There’s that small proportion, in accordance with the medical doctors, that it (by no means taking part in once more) may presumably occur,” Chris Waterman informed SEN.
“They (the medical doctors) need to get him again to regular well being. They assume that is the place it’ll head.
“Whether he lives on medication for the rest of his life or not is still unsure.
“It could or will not be incurable, and the ultimate stage is doubtlessly surgical procedure. We’re hoping we do not get to that.
“We’re hoping the infusions will settle the inflammation down. Maybe he’ll just have to do infusions for a few more years until it gets to normal.”
Jake Waterman was despatched dwelling to Perth on the morning of West Coast’s 122-point loss to Adelaide in Adelaide on June 10, earlier than checking into hospital two days later.
His dad felt the membership ought to have checked on his son extra recurrently as soon as he fell in poor health.
“They’ve got to do what they can do and act on it and make sure they keep their eye on him if they want him on the list,” Waterman mentioned.
“He’s a 25-year-old coming out of contract, so you’d be putting some time into him, I would have thought.”
West Coast’s normal supervisor of soccer Gavin Bell launched a video on Monday evening stating that varied folks on the membership, together with himself, recurrently checked in on Waterman as soon as he was despatched dwelling from Adelaide.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
