West Coast coach Adam Simpson has described his workforce’s horror 108-point loss to Carlton as unacceptable and never ok in what was the second largest defeat underneath his teaching, because the Eagles plummeted to the underside of the AFL ladder.
Charlie Curnow set an Optus Stadium file with 9 targets because the Blues received 23.14 (152) to six.8 (44). The thumping loss got here 12 months to the day that West Coast misplaced by 109 factors to Richmond.
Carlton had 148 extra uncontested possessions, 80 extra marks, took 29 marks inside 50 to West Coast’s 4, 14 contested marks to 2 and nonetheless laid 19 extra tackles than the Eagles.
“Collectively we let each other down,” Simpson mentioned.
“For the most part this year it’s been a quarter here or a quarter there, but we’ve found some resilience throughout the group – in particular since the Fremantle game. We got tipped over today, but that’s going to happen. Unfortunately, for where we are at at the moment, that is going to happen.
“We don’t accept it and we want to respond as quick as we can, but we got touched up today.”
The Eagles suffered extra accidents in the course of the recreation with Rhett Bazzo set to overlook Saturday’s recreation towards Richmond as a result of concussion and Sam Petrevski-Seton subbed out with a corked leg. Simpson is hopeful Dom Sheed could have recovered from a throat damage to play.
Simpson mentioned the dearth of match gamers was now making it extraordinarily arduous to arrange for video games.
“We can’t train at the moment. We’ve got 26 training,” he mentioned.
“It’s not an excuse but we can’t do anything that’s outside of some fundamentals. We’re working on our running and we’ll keep doing that because we won’t have much back next week but that’s not an excuse.
“Mindset is really important – so how we respond. We’ve been dealing with this for a long time, especially our leaders. We had three or four leaders out of our leadership group play tonight. We need to galvanise and stay as strong as we can. Criticism will be there and that’s our industry. I’m not hiding away from it. It’s all about next week now.
“There isn’t a lot coming back in the next three or four weeks so we’ve just got to stay resilient, accept the criticism, understand individually and collectively we weren’t good enough tonight and we got beaten by a side that was pretty hungry and ruthless.”
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