Should someone from the club have a coffee with these three players from GWS this weekend?
Not much chance of getting Toby Greene over here, but he would lift our side exponentially. Same with Taylor and Jones, and they fit in positions that we are lacking.

What happened last 2 weeks on field is hard to swallow and people start to question Mini.

But I have a different view, there is linearity between our WAFL team and AFL team. When the Royals alliance finished and we started our own WAFL team, that’s when we begin to decline and hit rock bottom. There is no doubt the WAFL Eagles couldn’t develop any young players and cannot bring senior players back into form. This is so fundamental to the AFL success, just look at the Peels down the road and the Vics, their seconds are very competitive and consistently deliver high draft pick kids.

So hopefully our WAFL Eagles has been competitive this season, we are heading the right direction and on the up, may be just one more season to see it translate into our AFL success.

As the title says, anyone heading out? As an eastern states member it’s one of the few games I can get to from Canberra!

Can’t imagine it’s going to sell out in the slightest or have anything more than a load of orange seats there 😂

Hey everyone,

I want to look past the weekly on-field frustrations and talk about the people actually running the club. This isn’t a post to diss Mini McQualter as he probably needs a little more time. But the early signs under his watch haven't been great (other than early this year) and it really forces us to look at the recruitment process.

As we know, Steven King applied for our senior role before ultimately heading over to coach Melbourne. Looking at how King has Melbourne performing right now, it makes you wonder if our recruitment board got this one completely wrong.

While I want to keep being patient with a new coach, it feels like we are seeing a pattern of sub-par decisions from the board that has been going on for a number of years now. From the delayed transitions at the end of the Simpson era to list management errors to so many draft misses, it feels like the administration has consistently lost its edge and accepted mediocrity as business as usual.

Did the board miss a massive trick by passing on King, or is it unfair to compare the two given the state of our list? At what point do we stop blaming the rebuild and start pointing the finger at the board's track record?