Eagles 'arrogance' lashed amid nightmare slump

Port Adelaide large Kane Cornes has lashed West Coast for its "arrogance" aft a disastrous nonaccomplishment against Hawthorn connected the weekend.

In a conflict of the AFL's cellar-dwellers, the Eagles were demolished by 116 points, the latest occurrence successful the bittersweet demise of 1 of the league's astir almighty clubs.

Just 5 years aft their astir caller premiership, the Eagles find themselves facing a lengthy rebuild, 1 that Cornes forecasted successful 2021 earlier being changeable down by Eagles CEO Trevor Nisbett and elder manager Adam Simpson astatine the time.

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"It speaks to the arrogance of the club," helium told Nine's Footy Classified.

"They've had their caput successful the soil for acold excessively long. Anyone who watches shot (could) spot that this was wherever West Coast was going to extremity up.

West Coast sunk to a caller debased astatine the play erstwhile it mislaid to Hawthorn by a whopping 116 points (AFL Photos via Getty Images)

"The deficiency of draught picks, the overpaying of players, the loyalty to those players that conscionable don't play."

Cornes said that portion each of the Eagles' problems weren't connected Simpson, whose aboriginal gets much clouded with each loss, helium had to ain the deficiency of standards set.

"He fto his players disconnected acold excessively easily, they were unfit, they were overweight, and this is the effect that you get erstwhile you suffer by 116 points to the 18th squad connected the ladder," helium said.

"The magnitude of times that they (Hawthorn players) broke tackles and waltzed through, it was honestly similar an interior proceedings successful February this crippled yesterday, and they should beryllium embarrassed by it.

"I'm sick of the excuses retired of West Coast. 'We're injured', OK for 3 years your grounds speaks to a batch much than injuries. This isn't injury, this is effort and this is simply a squad that has fundamentally fixed up.

Kane Cornes predicted that Adam Simpson would not spot retired the remainder of this play (AFL Photos via Getty Images)

"Adam Simpson, it's not solely his fault, intelligibly determination are different reasons wherefore it's led to this, but yet helium is the 1 that volition wage the price.

"He won't past until the extremity of the year, helium can't. No manager successful past has survived a grounds of 4 wins and 30-odd losses implicit a two-and-a-half twelvemonth period."

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The Age's Caroline Wilson suggested the Eagles needed to look outwards to apprehension their descent arsenic a shot nine successful caller years.

"They don't perceive to anyone extracurricular of their 4 walls, present they indispensable beryllium starting to," she told Footy Classified.

"They did erstwhile before, erstwhile the drugs ungraded happened, and they came to Melbourne each year, sold themselves to the media, tried to integrate themselves into the wider shot scene.

"For a agelong clip they were a caller footy club, and present it's happened again."

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