August 4, 2025 • 6 mins
Elliot Yeo dropped by for a chat with Clairsy & Lisa, reflecting on the frustration of being sidelined and the team’s struggle to execute their game plan. He weighed in on whether the players are backing Andrew McQualter and compared the current rebuild to where Fremantle was a few years back. The guys also asked about the younger players stepping up and whether it’s fair for the Eagles to seek draft assistance from the AFL.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
When it sho It's like YO called Stroke ninety six
airfm's own West Coast Eagle Elliot YO for Perth Window
and Door Replacement Company.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Give your home a new lease on life with Perth
Window and Door Replacement Company the number one name in
the game to book your free quote Surge Perth Window
and Door.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Good morning, Eliott morning. How are you?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
That's too bad?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
That's the dream you said you will do. Now, the
loss to Melbourne at Marvel Stadium on the weekend does
mathematically confirm the Eagles will win the Wooden Spoon this year.
I think that was already a bit of a given. Yes,
but in the old mathematical stakes, it's the club second
in three years. And what is it fair to say that?
(00:52):
Not looking for excuses or anything, but is it fair
to say that all the club veterans not playing you know,
large parts, if not all, of the season, has had
a huge impact on the way this season has gone.
And I'm talking of you, she McGovern waterman Allan.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yeah, I would have thought that.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Mean when he first took over, he's like, Okay, we've
got some older players we can work around here, and
you know, we can build the talent around that and
they can protect them a bit experience. We have not
been able to get on the park and help them out,
so that's been hard and frustrating, especially for me sitting
on the sidelines. I struggled a lot watching the boys
out there struggle. So that's been probably the most frustrating
(01:31):
aspect of it all. And I'm sure that all the
other boys that are injured, the older players, are in
the exact same boat. So we just want to help.
We want the team to get better, we want the
club to win games of football, and we want to
obviously do our fans really really proud.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
But at the moment, we're struggling.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Yeah, eighty three point loss, it was a flog under
the Demons and you you brought it up last week.
The last time you want to face Melbourne is when
they're angry after what happened.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
The Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So look, we knew that
going in.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, we just weren't able to execute, and that's the
frustrating aspect of it all. So yeah, look, it's it's
I feel like it's I've been saying the same thing,
you know most weeks that we just have been able
to execute a game plan and what we want to
implement for most of the season. So that's been Yeah,
that's been really tough, really tough.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It's been a rougher season for Andrew mccaulform as he
said that the players still behind him.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, absolutely, Mini's awesome. Mini is really really good. We
had a really good review yesterday, really honest one. So yeah,
some really good conversations coming from that, and hopefully we
can continue to improve.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Yeah, you've got a bunch of young blokes in that
squad who were copying it right now and they're going
through that kind of stuff. But you would imagine that
that will toughen them up very early. And perhaps i've
you know, they have way too much more than they
should have the reasons we're spoken.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
That's the silver lining, I guess you could say from
it all.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
But again, I feel like we've spoken about it a
fair bit and I'm hopeful that things will turn. But yeah,
you still need we need, you know, fifty to one
hundred games and a lot of these kids that just
haven't got there there yet at all. So the quicker
we can do that, and the quicker we can get
experience into them, which obviously doesn't doesn't happen without obviously
a few lean years of you know, playing football and
(03:12):
trying to understand that the pace of the game and
what's what's required and what's expected of them.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Things like that take some time, sadly, and.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I think fore or were in a similar boat, like
probably not as bad as what we were, but a
couple of years ago, you know, a young team. Now
start looking at them, they're all around that you know,
eighty plus game mark and they're really contending for final football.
So hopefully we can get to that stage in a
couple of years time. But you know, if we can
bridge the gap as quick as possible, even better.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
There's been a bit of criticism of the club indicating
plans to seek draft assistance from the AFL. Do you
think that's fair?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Ah, well, if you probably look at the amount of
players that we've lost, yes, But again, like that's not
my decision to make.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
That's up to the AFL and for the club to
ask pitch.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
But I think going off of what other teams have
gone through over there, you seasons and you know, a
couple of years of lean wins, you would you would
probably say that, yeah, we should be able to get
one but who knows. That's kind of over my head,
like that's the AFL and then the club sort of.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And you're probably glad of that. All right, you play Adelaide.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Now play football?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah yeah yeah, top versus bottom it.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Is, you play Adelaide. It off just on Sunday, bounced
down as three ten now. The Crows finished fifteenth on
the ladder last year. No one predicted them to be
sitting on top after twenty one rounds.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
This year, not on top, but I knew that I've
had a feeling that they'd be very very good. Yeah there, yeah, yeah,
I had because last year they had they had a
really good stretch there and then they kind of fell
away and they just I think only just missed out
due to like a few things, I think a couple
of games, but some very good team.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Do you have a feeling they're going to be really
good this week out?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah yeah yeah. And when you're in like
I've been there before, and when you're in.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
A groove like that, yeah, it feels like everything that
you do, everybody is aligned and everyone's in sync, and
it's it's you know, it's there. They're hard teams to
beat because they play their role. They are talented all
over the past and yeah they're fun to watch Adelaide,
they are fun to watch.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
So it's going to be tough.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
For us and they're playing someone else.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, it's going to be tough for us, but we're
up for the fire. I mean, we need to bounce
back off off last week.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
So time to play tribute to a couple of your
premiership mats on the weekend, mate, I see.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah, the old farewell game. I'm sure there'll be what
is it driving around in the Yeah, the old car.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Doing a bit of an on field Q and A
apparently just say their final fair world.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yeah, yeah, would have thought so.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
So yeah, look, it'd be good for for everyone to
get out of there and say thank you, mostly two
fantastic players for the football club dom.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Kicking that goal.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Gub just an all time probably one of the all
time players as well the football club as well. So yeah,
it'd be good to see everyone get down there and
wave them off.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
They're both part of that epic never forget unforgettable.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Yeah, stand it up.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Yeah yeah Collingwood people sick.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Oh yeah it does well. That makes me very happy.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Watching it get down that affairwell these two on Sunday.
Bounced down is three ten gatest the top of the table.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Adelaide, good luck, cheers,
When it sho It's like YO called Stroke ninety six
airfm's own West Coast Eagle Elliot YO for Perth Window
and Door Replacement Company.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Give your home a new lease on life with Perth
Window and Door Replacement Company the number one name in
the game to book your free quote Surge Perth Window
and Door.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Good morning, Eliott morning. How are you?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
That's too bad?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
That's the dream you said you will do. Now, the
loss to Melbourne at Marvel Stadium on the weekend does
mathematically confirm the Eagles will win the Wooden Spoon this year.
I think that was already a bit of a given. Yes,
but in the old mathematical stakes, it's the club second
in three years. And what is it fair to say that?
(00:52):
Not looking for excuses or anything, but is it fair
to say that all the club veterans not playing you know,
large parts, if not all, of the season, has had
a huge impact on the way this season has gone.
And I'm talking of you, she McGovern waterman Allan.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yeah, I would have thought that.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Mean when he first took over, he's like, Okay, we've
got some older players we can work around here, and
you know, we can build the talent around that and
they can protect them a bit experience. We have not
been able to get on the park and help them out,
so that's been hard and frustrating, especially for me sitting
on the sidelines. I struggled a lot watching the boys
out there struggle. So that's been probably the most frustrating
(01:31):
aspect of it all. And I'm sure that all the
other boys that are injured, the older players, are in
the exact same boat. So we just want to help.
We want the team to get better, we want the
club to win games of football, and we want to
obviously do our fans really really proud.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
But at the moment, we're struggling.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Yeah, eighty three point loss, it was a flog under
the Demons and you you brought it up last week.
The last time you want to face Melbourne is when
they're angry after what happened.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
The Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So look, we knew that
going in.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, we just weren't able to execute, and that's the
frustrating aspect of it all. So yeah, look, it's it's
I feel like it's I've been saying the same thing,
you know most weeks that we just have been able
to execute a game plan and what we want to
implement for most of the season. So that's been Yeah,
that's been really tough, really tough.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It's been a rougher season for Andrew mccaulform as he
said that the players still behind him.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, absolutely, Mini's awesome. Mini is really really good. We
had a really good review yesterday, really honest one. So yeah,
some really good conversations coming from that, and hopefully we
can continue to improve.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Yeah, you've got a bunch of young blokes in that
squad who were copying it right now and they're going
through that kind of stuff. But you would imagine that
that will toughen them up very early. And perhaps i've
you know, they have way too much more than they
should have the reasons we're spoken.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
That's the silver lining, I guess you could say from
it all.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
But again, I feel like we've spoken about it a
fair bit and I'm hopeful that things will turn. But yeah,
you still need we need, you know, fifty to one
hundred games and a lot of these kids that just
haven't got there there yet at all. So the quicker
we can do that, and the quicker we can get
experience into them, which obviously doesn't doesn't happen without obviously
a few lean years of you know, playing football and
(03:12):
trying to understand that the pace of the game and
what's what's required and what's expected of them.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Things like that take some time, sadly, and.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I think fore or were in a similar boat, like
probably not as bad as what we were, but a
couple of years ago, you know, a young team. Now
start looking at them, they're all around that you know,
eighty plus game mark and they're really contending for final football.
So hopefully we can get to that stage in a
couple of years time. But you know, if we can
bridge the gap as quick as possible, even better.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
There's been a bit of criticism of the club indicating
plans to seek draft assistance from the AFL. Do you
think that's fair?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Ah, well, if you probably look at the amount of
players that we've lost, yes, But again, like that's not
my decision to make.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
That's up to the AFL and for the club to
ask pitch.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
But I think going off of what other teams have
gone through over there, you seasons and you know, a
couple of years of lean wins, you would you would
probably say that, yeah, we should be able to get
one but who knows. That's kind of over my head,
like that's the AFL and then the club sort of.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And you're probably glad of that. All right, you play Adelaide.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Now play football?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah yeah yeah, top versus bottom it.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Is, you play Adelaide. It off just on Sunday, bounced
down as three ten now. The Crows finished fifteenth on
the ladder last year. No one predicted them to be
sitting on top after twenty one rounds.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
This year, not on top, but I knew that I've
had a feeling that they'd be very very good. Yeah there, yeah, yeah,
I had because last year they had they had a
really good stretch there and then they kind of fell
away and they just I think only just missed out
due to like a few things, I think a couple
of games, but some very good team.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Do you have a feeling they're going to be really
good this week out?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah yeah yeah. And when you're in like
I've been there before, and when you're in.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
A groove like that, yeah, it feels like everything that
you do, everybody is aligned and everyone's in sync, and
it's it's you know, it's there. They're hard teams to
beat because they play their role. They are talented all
over the past and yeah they're fun to watch Adelaide,
they are fun to watch.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
So it's going to be tough.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
For us and they're playing someone else.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, it's going to be tough for us, but we're
up for the fire. I mean, we need to bounce
back off off last week.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
So time to play tribute to a couple of your
premiership mats on the weekend, mate, I see.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah, the old farewell game. I'm sure there'll be what
is it driving around in the Yeah, the old car.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Doing a bit of an on field Q and A
apparently just say their final fair world.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yeah, yeah, would have thought so.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
So yeah, look, it'd be good for for everyone to
get out of there and say thank you, mostly two
fantastic players for the football club dom.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Kicking that goal.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Gub just an all time probably one of the all
time players as well the football club as well. So yeah,
it'd be good to see everyone get down there and
wave them off.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
They're both part of that epic never forget unforgettable.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Yeah, stand it up.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Yeah yeah Collingwood people sick.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Oh yeah it does well. That makes me very happy.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Watching it get down that affairwell these two on Sunday.
Bounced down is three ten gatest the top of the table.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Adelaide, good luck, cheers,
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