It's time for Eagles coach Adam Simpson to check-in or check-out.
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He needs to put some players to the sword because the Eagles have to start planning beyond this year. Even if West Coast make the finals this year, they will be simply making up numbers.
Simpson has to make a statement and say: 'I'm in charge here and none of the players are immune to being dropped'.
The Eagles can't keep going back to Eric MacKenzie, Will Schofield, Sam Butler, Josh Hill, Mark Hutchings and the like, because they are not the future of the club.
And Jamie Cripps, Josh Hill, Jack Darling and even Matt Priddis - one or two of them have to go back to East Perth.
There doesn't seem to be any urgency or desperation from a lot of the players and they don't appear to be having a red hot crack so Simpson needs to make clear statement.
Look at the Bulldogs - if any players are going to be upset at being omitted look at the nine premiership players that have been dropped this year.
Simpson needs to see what the kids at West Coast are made of.
Fremantle lost the first two games and threw in the kids and won six out of the next seven. I don't think that's resolved all the problems at the Dockers, but the Eagles won't know what the kids are capable of if they don't give them an extended run.
Malcolm Karpany was a glaring omission from the Suns' game. The track was fast and he would have gotten into the open spaces, and he would give those extra one percenters that clearly a number of senior players are not contributing.
From all reports Mark LeCras wants a two-year-contract, but at best I would give him a one-year performance-based deal so the club is not obliged to pick him.
And Darling is clearly the third or fourth banana up front so why not just throw him to centre half back, because at the moment he appears to lack awareness when he plays forward.
The Achilles heel at the Eagles has always been a lack of leg speed in the midfield, so the club needs to recruit players with speed.
The only way it can do that is by cutting Hill, Priddis, Drew Petrie, Mark Hutchings, Sam Butler, and even Sharrod Wellingham so it can have some money to go into the marketplace to get players with pace.
Why not go after the Giants Josh Kelly? The club probably won't get him but why not rattle the cage and see what falls out?
Simpson also needs to prove he's got more to his coaching than just plan B, which involves throwing Jeremy McGovern forward. He needs to learn to adapt on the run, because Suns' coach Rodney Eade outsmarted and outcoached him on the weekend.
Yeah, Eade's coaching was boring, frustrating and ugly but he knew eventually some of the Eagles' players would become frustrated and not follow instructions.
Eade will go down to Melbourne to take on the Hawks and have a completely different game plan to tackle Hawthorn.
Simpson needs to start showing he can change his coaching style and adapt on the run, because over the last few weeks he has shown there is really no plan B.
Hero of the week: John K Watts. He was not only a very talented footballer he was a really talented radio man. He was the Lou Richards of Perth.
Goat of the week: Gold Coast defender Jarrod Harbrow for getting caught drink-driving. It must have been one hell of a session, if he was still over the limit the following morning.
Things that make you go hmmm. Geelong forward Tom Hawkins for getting a week for his jumper punch. I'm not saying he was made an example of by the AFL, but would have Brownlow Medal favourites Patrick Dangerfield, Rory Sloane, Josh Kelly or even Joel Selwood be rubbed out for a week for the same offence?