called for calm surrounding Smith<\/a>, describing the star midfielder\u2019s first 12 months at the club as an \u201coutrageous success.\u201d<\/p>\n And Scott welcomed the league working \u201ccollaboratively\u201d with clubs.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be a matter of, there\u2019s the head office in charge of enforcement and there\u2019s the clubs involved in dealing with the issues. We should be working collaboratively together and that\u2019s actually been my experience behind the scenes,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy suspicion is there\u2019s a bit of a disconnect around the perception on some of these issues and how they\u2019re being handled and the actual reality. It\u2019s not that everything\u2019s fine all the time, but it\u2019s certainly not that there\u2019s this explosion of discomfort or unhappiness with each other.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the two parties are pretty closely aligned on where all this stuff is at … far from being concerned that they\u2019ve reached out, I think it\u2019s a real positive thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not as if they\u2019re sitting back in a silo and not helping us. I think it\u2019s the opposite, I think it\u2019s good collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rampe and Lloyd to remain with Swans | 00:22<\/p>\n
Dillon was also pleased to see West Coast put its assistance package to use and emphasised the importance of giving fans hope after four-straight bottom three finishes.<\/p>\n
It including the Eagles using their extra first-round pick to secure dual premiership Lion Brandon Starcevich in a trade. <\/p>\n
That ensured West Coast\u2019s free agency compensation for Oscar Allen\u2019s departure \u2014 the No. 2 selection \u2014 wouldn\u2019t be diluted, meaning the club holds the first two overall picks in next month\u2019s draft.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve taken that package and they\u2019ve used that. They\u2019ve attracted a high caliber player and they\u2019ve got two early picks in the draft,\u201d Dillon said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we want as a competition is for all our fans of all of our clubs to have hope. And I think if you sit down at the bottom for too long, fans can lose hope. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think what you see now at West Coast is there\u2019s a new regime. (CEO) Don (Pyke) is leading really well with (chair) Elizabeth Gaines and (coach) Andrew McQualter. He had a tough first year but he\u2019s going to be a good coach.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo they\u2019ll get two high quality players this year or more than two in the draft …. and with Harley Reid as well, they are going to be OK.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon says the league\u2019s decision to put Bailey Smith \u201con notice\u201d for his off-field…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,28460,145844,8406,71972,64,63,689,55,639,684,145847,12928,36891,11387,12923,27713,145845,35629,145370,28271,77655,144315,12137,677,139691,15836,46,139688,1314,139687,85,7805,145846,7067,3439],"class_list":["post-245220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-agency-compensation","tag-andrew-dillon-on-bailey-smith","tag-andrew-mcqualter","tag-assistance-package","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ben-cotton","tag-caliber-player","tag-caroline-wilson","tag-cats-coach","tag-chief-executive","tag-chris-scott","tag-dane-rampe","tag-elizabeth-gaines","tag-final-warning","tag-flooded-dressing-room","tag-head-office","tag-jake-lloyd","tag-lightning-delay","tag-max-holmes","tag-oceania","tag-off-field-behaviour","tag-oscar-allen","tag-perth","tag-real-positive-thing","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-behaviour","tag-sports","tag-star-midfielder","tag-stars-behaviour","tag-west-coast-eagles","tag-western-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245220","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=245220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}