Coach admits Eagle's 'mistake' amid police probe

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West Coast Eagles manager Adam Simpson admits Isiah Winder "made a mistake" and says helium "needs to enactment connected immoderate things", amid a Victoria Police probe into an alleged battle successful Geelong.

The 20-year-old rookie is astatine the centre of a constabulary probe pursuing an alleged battle aft past week's AFL/AFLPA Indigenous and Multicultural Summit.

He had attended the four-day acme with much than 100 chap First Nations players from crossed the AFL.

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"What we bash cognize is it looks similar helium made a mistake astatine the indigenous campy with the relation they had afterwards, and past unluckily it led to an incidental (on) Friday night," Simpson said connected SEN vigor connected Wednesday.

"We're heading successful a absorption that helium needs to articulation successful on, and unluckily he's made a mistake.

"So he's portion of our programme still; he'll conscionable beryllium grooming disconnected tract with our WAFL Eagles team, he's inactive got entree to the nine and the resources.

"But helium conscionable needs to enactment connected immoderate things to get to wherever helium needs to beryllium to beryllium portion of our list.

"So, we'll reassess things backmost successful aboriginal January erstwhile helium comes backmost and conscionable spot however he's responded, and (he'll) enactment done immoderate things helium needs to enactment connected on his own, and ... immoderate of the things we request to assistance him with, too, due to the fact that he's a 20-year-old rookie-list player. So, uncovering the equilibrium betwixt the 2 is important for us."

Winder, a Peel Thunder product, landed astatine the Eagles via prime 57 successful the 2020 AFL nationalist draft.

The medium-sized guardant was delisted astatine the extremity of the 2022 play but won backmost a spot connected West Coast's database done the rookie draft.

"We bash request to admit the standards you disregard are the standards you accept," Simpson added.

"So, we request to determination guardant successful the absorption we privation to go, arsenic well."

Winder played 7 AFL games successful his archetypal 2 seasons arsenic an Eagle, including six successful 2022.

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