An “angry” Adam Simpson says West Coast are within the pit however wasn’t making any excuses for his injury-ravaged Eagles’ 122-point loss to Adelaide as their devastating season continues to spiral.
The premiership coach wouldn’t purchase into questioning whether or not careers have been on the road, regardless of the 27.12 (174) to eight.4 (52) loss being their third triple-figure defeat this season.
Simpson flagged change was coming and predicted the Eagles can be one of many youngest lists within the AFL within the subsequent few years, giving concern to extra painful years to return as they execute the largest rebuild of their historical past.
There have been few positives for the Eagles’ followers to take from the sport, with debutant Ryan Maric’s two targets the one actual spotlight in a dismal day.
“While we’re holding up okay, it’s an understanding of reality and also an expectation of performance,” Simpson stated.
“It’s a challenge, but I’m up for it and we’re up for it, it’s just right now we’re in the pit.
“We’ve got to do everything we can to get out as quick as we can and that means getting personnel back, playing better football, being as resilient as we can.”
When requested if careers have been on the road Simpson stated nothing had modified regardless of 11 consecutive losses.
“Careers are on the line every year, every week … whether you’re chasing the flag or you’re trying to get off the bottom of the ladder,” Simpson stated.
“Those statements, they don’t really change from week to week, year to year.”
Simpson stated the Eagles would flip over their checklist shortly and hit the draft exhausting to push for an additional premiership.
“We’ve gone to the draft last couple of years, and we’ll continue to do that,” Simpson stated.
“The free agent agency piece is probably not for us right now, we need to get some young talent into the side, albeit we’re open to what’s out there as well.
“We’re going to transition the list pretty quickly. It’s going to be one of the youngest lists in a year or so in the comp. And then we want to get some picks at the top end as well if we can.”
Simpson stated that didn’t imply the likes of captain Luke Shuey (33), Nic Naitanui (33), Jamie Cripps (31), Jeremy McGovern (31), Shannon Hurn (35), Andrew Gaff (30) and Jack Darling (30) can be moved on faster than anticipated.
“It will be just normal, you’ve only got to lose two or three,” he stated.
“That won’t take too long.”
Simpson has 10 extra video games to fret about this season and stated he hoped about six or seven gamers would come again from harm with Sydney on the SCG their subsequent activity in spherical 15.
“They need to get a break and they need to recover,” Simpson stated.
“Then we need to hit the second part of the year with everything we’ve got – everything.
“We’ll get hopefully five or six plays back after the bye and that should give us a bit more resolve and a bit more experience and a bit more synergy with the group. It’s all over the shop with the synergy at the moment.”
Simpson stated the membership was feeling the identical as their indignant followers, who would head into the bye.
“They’re not happy as they should be,” Simpson stated.
“What we can do is be honest and that’s where we’re at the moment. We didn’t like today that’s for sure.”
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