April 14, 2025 • 9 mins
Today Barra and Smiley spoke to Elliot Yeo after another horrendous round in Adelaide last weekend, theyspoke about the team's form and how they can improve from here plus Barra asked Elliot if dropping Tim Kelly was the right decision and is there a chance Jeremy McGovern might be back this weekend.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Yeah yo, when a huge like yocks to walk one
ninety six air ms on West Coast Eagle iliot Yo
for Perth Window and Door Replacement Company.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Give your home and you lays on life with Perth
Window and Door Replacement Company, the number one name in
the game.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
To book your free quote Surge per Window and Door
Elliott Yo.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Adrian Bowich, gentlemen, good morning, hon.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yoh yeah, I guess mate, it's a bit like what's
going on at the moment at West Case. It just
doesn't seem to be falling into place. How are you
feeling about it?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Mate?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Can't beat you by seventy one points at Adelaide Oval
on Saturday. Obviously the gather round we should cover that
first of all. That looks spectacular.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
You've been before, oh yeah a few times? Yeah yeah, yeah.
They do it very well, very well.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
So I hope that one day w wake and throw
their sort of hat in the ring or the AFL
does to gather and we have one and Adelaide has one.
You know, it's just a big festival of footy, which
is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
We should poach it. Yeah, the eighteen teams and you know,
fans from every club, but I was thinking about you
driving in. I was thinking, jeez, how's YOWI feeling? You know,
Eagles are zero to five. You probably still three or
four weeks away from playing aas so they could be
I don't know, nine or one and eight or whatever
the finals, that kind of would be gone.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
How do you motivate yourself? What you're just thinking about?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Come back and try to help the boys bring through
all the young guys that are coming in.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
How are you approaching it?
Speaker 6 (01:33):
It's pretty much how I think about it is just
how quickly can I get back on the park to
help the younger kids coming through. Yeah, it's frustrating to watch.
It's hard to watch because you know that we're better
than that, but we're just things aren't clicking at the
moment and that'll come eventually. Game plan, ball movement, all
(01:54):
that stuff. How we want to defend as well behind it,
But we need to get urgent real quick with it all.
And that's the frustrating aspect is losing by considerable amounts
and having a lot of critics pretty much open slatherin
to everything about the football club, which is the frustrating aspects.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
You know, we're all no. One goes out there will
lose games.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Of football and we're all proud people and we're all
proud of the club, and unfortunately, when you lose like
we have been, you just open yourself up to any
sort of criticism and it's just frustrating because yeah, you
don't want to be in that position.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
And you feel for the young guys.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Smiley I was saying to just someone that Brady Hoff
was speaking to the West Australian newspaper and he broke
down during an interview after the game, after the Carlton game,
because he's played in fifty eight games, he's only one
eight and half of the games have been more than
fifty point losses, and he was a huge Eagles fan
growing up and sort of you almost have to get
(02:53):
around the young blokes saying, oh, listen, boys, this is
a tough time, but you'll be better for this.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
You come through the fire. That sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Yeah, you do, and we.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Do talk about it, but it's always hard to see
the light at the end of the tunnel, it is.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
So it's how do how do.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
You keep them motivated? How do you keep everyone motivated? Really,
So that's that's the hardest part when you're losing games
of football.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
But at the end of the day, though, we have
the best job.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
In the world, and boys still come into the football
club loving what they do.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
So they don't have a beautiful daughter to go home
to sort of when she hugs it's not that bad, yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Exactly, and that is that is fantastic.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
I mean you do get home and like she's at
the stage now where she's smiling and giggling and she's
happy to.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
See us, So that is yeah, that is.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
It's there the moments that you cherish like a lot
as a dad, and it's the best feeling as well.
But in saying that back to football though, like we
we need to get urgent real quick with it, and yeah,
we still come in love and what we do, loving
the football club. We have the best job in the world,
and you know, we just want to try and make
(04:01):
our fans proud and happy.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
One one silver lining the return of Jake Waterman and
Liam Ryan. I went, how good is Liam Ryan's kicking speed?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
That lad?
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Yeah, very good and I think it's more so the
second and third efforts you probably saw as well throughout
the game. Now he's coming back off a few things
and you know, he might take a game or two
to get his full match fitness up as well. But
you remember that like he kicked that ball on that wing,
kept running like took off, fended off Sarde and then
just kept going. You know what I mean, the second
(04:31):
third efforts, they're the big things that I think you
can hold your hat onto a little bit. You know,
hutch rundown, tackle hunting as well. So they're the actions
that we kind of want to see more of. It's
just you know, obviously implementing those over the four quarters,
but we don't want to be defending and trying to
start our ball movement from the back half, so that's
(04:52):
the hardest part.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
And the inside fifties it was seventy three to thirty five,
so you only had thirty five inside fifties. And then
I remember against the Suns you said it was ridiculous
losing the contested ball by forty three. Well, against Carlton
you lost it by fifty nine. I had seventy seven contests.
It's just the lowest in the recorded stat's history.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Yeah, and you just don't have any opportunity to implement
what you want to do in terms of game plan
when you look contest the ball, and I think Mini
addressed at post game as well and said, you know,
we need to get real quick on you know, around
the contest and getting better at it.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
But yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Dropping Tim Kelly did that work then? Or is would
you bring him? Would you bring him back? And not
just because he's playing Perth this weekend in the waffle competition?
Do you reckoning being TK back in a look, that.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Decisions out of my hands. That's up to Mini and
the match committee and all that. So for for whatever
reason that is, TK knows when he needs to work
on and what's expected of him, so that decision is
well out of my hands. But there is an aspect
of like, we do need to get some experience into
a lot of younger players, and from my feeling, if
(06:02):
it's you're not being able to fulfill your role and
play your role to the best of your ability, then
you know we'll try and play someone that will. So
that was my thought and sort of whole process of
what happened. But again I could be wrong. That's between
t K and Mini.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
And Gov might be back there. That's a positive, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Huge? Positive?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Massive?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
If Jeremy McGovern comes back. That just yeah, steals up
the back line.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
It does, it does.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
But again, you know, you don't want to rely on
one or two players either. You know, you want to
be in it getting through it together as a collective.
So yeah, unfortunately, you know, we don't want to have
to rely on a really good players in order to
be able to win games.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
To football, we want to do it together.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Because Smiley, you know what happens.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
It's hard not to you know, talk negative in these
situations because the boys aren't winning. But things like Patrick
Cribs you see that take there, he got that kick
and then no one's still on the mark and he
just waltzed into the guy. Yeah, then the sort of
things that do happen when you're in experience, but also
when you're getting belted.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I know you're feeling.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Yeah, it sucks, it sucks.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
And again, as I said, no one, no one goes
out there deliberately playing bad. So yeah, it's there's a
sense of there's a sense of pride as well with
it all. And like boys are hurt, absolutely, we're hurt
and we're hurting, but we need to get better real quick.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
It could be a real good Friday or that's a chance.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Yeah, absolutely, every game is a chance though, you know
what I mean, Like you saw us against Brisbane, so
you know, it's it's funny how football can be played
between the years as well to a certain extent. So
you know, if we come with the right mindset, you know,
sort of reviewing previous game and what we need to
work on and getting better and then also implementing what
(07:48):
we want to on Friday and then winning around the
contest as well, that that will hopefully help us put
us within a winnable game.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
See what, Zach Merritt, He will be the essenceon player.
I had to shut down again thirty seven freaking how
do you stop it?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Just to accumulates?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
We just keep coming at you, don't we Jack Merritt,
what are you going to do about him? Could you tag? It?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Doesn't tag Mini much does he? But would you send
someone to him? I think James Graham?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
These are these are the conversations that they would be
having in match committee. But yeah, look who that who
they would send I'm not sure just.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Yet, not Graham maybe or you know, yeah, I just
don't know.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
So these are these are the things I don't really
if it was, you know, a year ago or so,
then I probably might know. But I'm still sort of
understanding how many sort of operates and wants to do
a few things.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I saw yesterday and you have to go on the
second over to do your rehab to what's that like?
Do you like that or you because you're training so
hard and you've got the stick that you were run with.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you feel disconnected from the main group,
like when.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Your Lepard squad in my day was cool.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Yeah, it's hard because you feel like you're disconnected in
the main group, and you are because your program as
well is a lot different.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
They still talked to you. Yeah, you got there a
couple more weeks.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Mate.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
It feels like a desert over there compared to compared
to the main.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Over I don't know what. Everyone just calls it the
rehab desert.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
So it's just two or three degrees hotter on that
over that back.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Hey, Eli, the big question will Jeremy McGovern play this week?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
I hope.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
So he's got to tick a few things off get
to remain training, but I'm hopeful that we can get
him back.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
The other classic is Luca Greco, that young fellow found
he's been knocking on the coach's door, ringing him up.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Hey, I'm here, I'm ready. You need me, Hello, I'm ready.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
If that's the case, that would be very funny, but
I don't think Grex is doing that.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Off the stadium. Fourteen pounds down, Elliott, Good luck for Friday.
I'll be waving the jacket.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Jeerz, thanks the jacket.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Bring your jacket.
Yeah yo, when a huge like yocks to walk one
ninety six air ms on West Coast Eagle iliot Yo
for Perth Window and Door Replacement Company.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Give your home and you lays on life with Perth
Window and Door Replacement Company, the number one name in
the game.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
To book your free quote Surge per Window and Door
Elliott Yo.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Adrian Bowich, gentlemen, good morning, hon.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yoh yeah, I guess mate, it's a bit like what's
going on at the moment at West Case. It just
doesn't seem to be falling into place. How are you
feeling about it?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Mate?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Can't beat you by seventy one points at Adelaide Oval
on Saturday. Obviously the gather round we should cover that
first of all. That looks spectacular.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
You've been before, oh yeah a few times? Yeah yeah, yeah.
They do it very well, very well.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
So I hope that one day w wake and throw
their sort of hat in the ring or the AFL
does to gather and we have one and Adelaide has one.
You know, it's just a big festival of footy, which
is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
We should poach it. Yeah, the eighteen teams and you know,
fans from every club, but I was thinking about you
driving in. I was thinking, jeez, how's YOWI feeling? You know,
Eagles are zero to five. You probably still three or
four weeks away from playing aas so they could be
I don't know, nine or one and eight or whatever
the finals, that kind of would be gone.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
How do you motivate yourself? What you're just thinking about?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Come back and try to help the boys bring through
all the young guys that are coming in.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
How are you approaching it?
Speaker 6 (01:33):
It's pretty much how I think about it is just
how quickly can I get back on the park to
help the younger kids coming through. Yeah, it's frustrating to watch.
It's hard to watch because you know that we're better
than that, but we're just things aren't clicking at the
moment and that'll come eventually. Game plan, ball movement, all
(01:54):
that stuff. How we want to defend as well behind it,
But we need to get urgent real quick with it all.
And that's the frustrating aspect is losing by considerable amounts
and having a lot of critics pretty much open slatherin
to everything about the football club, which is the frustrating aspects.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
You know, we're all no. One goes out there will
lose games.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Of football and we're all proud people and we're all
proud of the club, and unfortunately, when you lose like
we have been, you just open yourself up to any
sort of criticism and it's just frustrating because yeah, you
don't want to be in that position.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
And you feel for the young guys.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Smiley I was saying to just someone that Brady Hoff
was speaking to the West Australian newspaper and he broke
down during an interview after the game, after the Carlton game,
because he's played in fifty eight games, he's only one
eight and half of the games have been more than
fifty point losses, and he was a huge Eagles fan
growing up and sort of you almost have to get
(02:53):
around the young blokes saying, oh, listen, boys, this is
a tough time, but you'll be better for this.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
You come through the fire. That sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Yeah, you do, and we.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Do talk about it, but it's always hard to see
the light at the end of the tunnel, it is.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
So it's how do how do.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
You keep them motivated? How do you keep everyone motivated? Really,
So that's that's the hardest part when you're losing games
of football.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
But at the end of the day, though, we have
the best job.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
In the world, and boys still come into the football
club loving what they do.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
So they don't have a beautiful daughter to go home
to sort of when she hugs it's not that bad, yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Exactly, and that is that is fantastic.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
I mean you do get home and like she's at
the stage now where she's smiling and giggling and she's
happy to.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
See us, So that is yeah, that is.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
It's there the moments that you cherish like a lot
as a dad, and it's the best feeling as well.
But in saying that back to football though, like we
we need to get urgent real quick with it, and yeah,
we still come in love and what we do, loving
the football club. We have the best job in the world,
and you know, we just want to try and make
(04:01):
our fans proud and happy.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
One one silver lining the return of Jake Waterman and
Liam Ryan. I went, how good is Liam Ryan's kicking speed?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
That lad?
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Yeah, very good and I think it's more so the
second and third efforts you probably saw as well throughout
the game. Now he's coming back off a few things
and you know, he might take a game or two
to get his full match fitness up as well. But
you remember that like he kicked that ball on that wing,
kept running like took off, fended off Sarde and then
just kept going. You know what I mean, the second
(04:31):
third efforts, they're the big things that I think you
can hold your hat onto a little bit. You know,
hutch rundown, tackle hunting as well. So they're the actions
that we kind of want to see more of. It's
just you know, obviously implementing those over the four quarters,
but we don't want to be defending and trying to
start our ball movement from the back half, so that's
(04:52):
the hardest part.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
And the inside fifties it was seventy three to thirty five,
so you only had thirty five inside fifties. And then
I remember against the Suns you said it was ridiculous
losing the contested ball by forty three. Well, against Carlton
you lost it by fifty nine. I had seventy seven contests.
It's just the lowest in the recorded stat's history.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Yeah, and you just don't have any opportunity to implement
what you want to do in terms of game plan
when you look contest the ball, and I think Mini
addressed at post game as well and said, you know,
we need to get real quick on you know, around
the contest and getting better at it.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
But yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Dropping Tim Kelly did that work then? Or is would
you bring him? Would you bring him back? And not
just because he's playing Perth this weekend in the waffle competition?
Do you reckoning being TK back in a look, that.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Decisions out of my hands. That's up to Mini and
the match committee and all that. So for for whatever
reason that is, TK knows when he needs to work
on and what's expected of him, so that decision is
well out of my hands. But there is an aspect
of like, we do need to get some experience into
a lot of younger players, and from my feeling, if
(06:02):
it's you're not being able to fulfill your role and
play your role to the best of your ability, then
you know we'll try and play someone that will. So
that was my thought and sort of whole process of
what happened. But again I could be wrong. That's between
t K and Mini.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
And Gov might be back there. That's a positive, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Huge? Positive?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Massive?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
If Jeremy McGovern comes back. That just yeah, steals up
the back line.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
It does, it does.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
But again, you know, you don't want to rely on
one or two players either. You know, you want to
be in it getting through it together as a collective.
So yeah, unfortunately, you know, we don't want to have
to rely on a really good players in order to
be able to win games.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
To football, we want to do it together.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Because Smiley, you know what happens.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
It's hard not to you know, talk negative in these
situations because the boys aren't winning. But things like Patrick
Cribs you see that take there, he got that kick
and then no one's still on the mark and he
just waltzed into the guy. Yeah, then the sort of
things that do happen when you're in experience, but also
when you're getting belted.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I know you're feeling.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Yeah, it sucks, it sucks.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
And again, as I said, no one, no one goes
out there deliberately playing bad. So yeah, it's there's a
sense of there's a sense of pride as well with
it all. And like boys are hurt, absolutely, we're hurt
and we're hurting, but we need to get better real quick.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
It could be a real good Friday or that's a chance.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Yeah, absolutely, every game is a chance though, you know
what I mean, Like you saw us against Brisbane, so
you know, it's it's funny how football can be played
between the years as well to a certain extent. So
you know, if we come with the right mindset, you know,
sort of reviewing previous game and what we need to
work on and getting better and then also implementing what
(07:48):
we want to on Friday and then winning around the
contest as well, that that will hopefully help us put
us within a winnable game.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
See what, Zach Merritt, He will be the essenceon player.
I had to shut down again thirty seven freaking how
do you stop it?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Just to accumulates?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
We just keep coming at you, don't we Jack Merritt,
what are you going to do about him? Could you tag? It?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Doesn't tag Mini much does he? But would you send
someone to him? I think James Graham?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
These are these are the conversations that they would be
having in match committee. But yeah, look who that who
they would send I'm not sure just.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Yet, not Graham maybe or you know, yeah, I just
don't know.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
So these are these are the things I don't really
if it was, you know, a year ago or so,
then I probably might know. But I'm still sort of
understanding how many sort of operates and wants to do
a few things.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I saw yesterday and you have to go on the
second over to do your rehab to what's that like?
Do you like that or you because you're training so
hard and you've got the stick that you were run with.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you feel disconnected from the main group,
like when.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Your Lepard squad in my day was cool.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Yeah, it's hard because you feel like you're disconnected in
the main group, and you are because your program as
well is a lot different.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
They still talked to you. Yeah, you got there a
couple more weeks.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Mate.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
It feels like a desert over there compared to compared
to the main.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Over I don't know what. Everyone just calls it the
rehab desert.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
So it's just two or three degrees hotter on that
over that back.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Hey, Eli, the big question will Jeremy McGovern play this week?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
I hope.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
So he's got to tick a few things off get
to remain training, but I'm hopeful that we can get
him back.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
The other classic is Luca Greco, that young fellow found
he's been knocking on the coach's door, ringing him up.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Hey, I'm here, I'm ready. You need me, Hello, I'm ready.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
If that's the case, that would be very funny, but
I don't think Grex is doing that.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Off the stadium. Fourteen pounds down, Elliott, Good luck for Friday.
I'll be waving the jacket.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Jeerz, thanks the jacket.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Bring your jacket.
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