{"id":139154,"date":"2025-09-13T02:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/139154\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T02:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:31:09","slug":"lachie-neale-to-west-coast-afl-premiership-player-urges-eagles-to-make-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/139154\/","title":{"rendered":"Lachie Neale to West Coast? AFL premiership player urges Eagles to make play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hawthorn premiership player Xavier Ellis has urged West Coast to try and lure Lachie Neale to the club this trade period, following reports the dual Brownlow Medallist could be seeking a return to WA.<\/p>\n

Drafted by Fremantle in 2011, Neale played his first seven seasons for the Dockers before joining Brisbane at the end of 2018.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old is contracted to the Lions until the end of 2026, however the Eagles are reportedly interested in acquiring the star midfielder, should he request a move back to the west.<\/p>\n

Speaking to 10 News Perth, Ellis said the Lions co-captain would be the ideal mentor for West Coast’s developing squad.<\/p>\n

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“I think it’s a great fit for West Coast,” Ellis said.<\/p>\n

“Lachie Neale might cost a second round (pick), but at least those young kids have got someone to look up to, someone to drive standards, someone to impress.<\/p>\n

“I’d absolutely love it if they could get Lachie Neale to the club.”<\/p>\n

Ellis’ comments come after Fremantle football boss Joe Brierty seemingly ruled out a reunion with the former Docker while speaking to the media on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“I think there’s been a few misses about Lachie (Neale) over the journey,” Brierty said.<\/p>\n

“He’s an amazing talent but we feel like our midfield is in a pretty good place at the moment.<\/p>\n

“Even in the exit meetings there’s a lot of guys asking for more midfield minutes.<\/p>\n

“We feel like we’re in a good place and I’m sure Lachie and his partner and the kids are pretty happy where they are.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawthorn premiership player Xavier Ellis has urged West Coast to try and lure Lachie Neale to the club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-139154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}