Club's bizarre statement after Eddie drops sacking news

Former Collingwood president Eddie McGuire is led to believe, barring a last-minute alteration of heart, Adam Simpson volition beryllium sacked by the West Coast Eagles this week.

Speaking connected Nine's Eddie and Jimmy podcast, McGuire addressed the footage shown exclusively connected 9News of the West Coast Eagles' committee gathering implicit the weekend.

"Not the afloat board, but the committee came over. They usually travel implicit erstwhile a twelvemonth for a gathering successful Melbourne," helium said.

"My knowing of it was to conscionable wholly seed retired the separation and the payments and everything.

"The nine is precise adamant that helium does spell unless determination is simply a last-minute switch."

The Eagles released a cryptic connection connected Monday to seemingly quash the sacking rumours.

"The West Coast Eagles committee met this greeting for an informal treatment astatine the location of president Paul Fitzpatrick," the nine wrote successful a statement.

"The nine remains steadfast connected its presumption that nary decisions person been made astir the aboriginal of immoderate unit members and that nary of those cardinal decisions volition beryllium made until aft the season."

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