{"id":62363,"date":"2021-04-24T09:19:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T09:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=62363"},"modified":"2021-04-24T12:57:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T12:57:31","slug":"eagles-lashed-by-coach-after-weak-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=62363","title":{"rendered":"Eagles lashed by coach after &#039;weak&#039; showing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/west-coast-eagles\" title=\"West Coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Coast<\/a> coach Adam Simpson has lashed his team over an &quot;embarrassing&quot; performance after copping a <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/live-scores\/geelong-cats-v-west-coast-eagles-afl-home-and-away\/113760602\" title=\"97-point hiding at the hands of Geelong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">97-point hiding at the hands of Geelong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the match being billed as a clash of premiership contenders, the Eagles were second best after the quarter-time siren as the Cats slammed on 19 goals in the final three quarters.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/jeremy-cameron-provides-instant-impact-in-geelong-debut-vs-west-coast-eagles\/4bee98dd-5563-4624-90ba-b11156b221ac\" title=\"MORE: Cameron stars on Geelong debut against West Coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>MORE: <\/strong>Cameron stars on Geelong debut against West Coast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following the match, Simpson did not mince words when assessing his team&#x27;s showing.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We got annihilated in every aspect of the game, which is really disappointing. It was embarrassing performance after quarter-time,&quot; Simpson said post-game. &quot;You get what you deserve, really.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"195f4ff2-b56f-43b1-9543-49fbc217999b\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/195f4ff2-b56f-43b1-9543-49fbc217999b\" alt=\"Adam Simpson\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;We got blown away in the second quarter. It was really embarrassing.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Absolutely no excuses for what we did today. We looked weak.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse for Simpson, veteran defender Jeremy McGovern was substituted out of the game in the second quarter with a groin injury.<\/p>\n<p>Simpson will hope that his Eagles can rebound in Round Seven when they take on their cross-town rivals Fremantle in the Western Derby next weekend.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here! \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here! <\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>West Coast coach Adam Simpson has lashed his team over an &quot;embarrassing&quot; performance after copping a 97-point hiding at the hands of Geelong. Despite the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=62363\" title=\"Eagles lashed by coach after &#039;weak&#039; showing\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62365,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62363\/revisions\/62365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}