“You see each other every day in the change rooms but there’s a little bit of a different feel when you’re out there together having fun and doing what you do.” “Dom Sheed, Tom Cole, Jeremy McGovern didn’t play a whole heap last year, Elliot Yeo, so they’re a lot of our really important players and just having them back out there was exciting. I think a lot of guys coming back from not playing in a long time, a lot of guys pivotal in the locker room. That’s not to say there’s nothing to play for, but it allows guys to really express themselves. “Obviously this year the expectation probably isn’t as high. “Since I’ve been at the football club for the last six years there’s always been a really high level of expectation, which is terrific because we’ve come from a really successful place in the history of the footy club,” he said further. SEN WA’s Scott Cummings noticed that the Eagles were “up and about” and “enjoying themselves and each other” during the match, something he had not seen from the team for a while.Īllen explained why the mindset of the playing group was a bit more relaxed, while softening the expectations of the Eagles after a disastrous 2022 campaign. “So you take everything you hear with a little bit of a grain of salt.”Īllen had impressed in West Coast’s unofficial practice match win over Port Adelaide last week. When you’re playing you probably don’t look into too much of it because you’re only a day away from the exact opposite being said about you. He was a great coach and obviously he’s an analyst now. “I think I might have had one or two good games against Collingwood a couple of years ago so maybe he thinks I’m going a bit better than I am. It’s interesting, I’m not sure (what to make of it),” he said of the praise on SEN WA Breakfast. He kicked five goals in 2021 and three majors in 2020 resulting in four of his 11 career Brownlow votes. In response to the positive words, Allen hinted towards two of the better performances of his career which happened to come against Buckley’s Magpies. THE A-GRADE EAGLE THAT COULD ADD “MULTIPLE WINS” IN 2023 SEN Breakfast co-host Kane Cornes was just as effusive in his praise for the 23-year-old, labelling him an “A-grader”.
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