Viney joins the club on a two-season deal while Rivers has locked in for five.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce it became clear Jack was potentially available we were keen to add his experience and leadership to our playing group and we\u2019re excited he is joining our club,\u201d Head of List Management and Recruiting Matt Clarke said.<\/p>\n
\u201cJack\u2019s reputation across the competition is as a person of the highest character who leads by example with his uncompromising standards and drive to be successful.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a key part of a premiership team at Melbourne, and we believe he can have a significant and positive impact on our midfield mix and developing group on and off the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe look forward to welcoming Jack, Charlotte and their three daughters \u2013 Mila, Chloe and Ella – to West Coast.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added he was hopeful Rivers could add to both sides of the clubs\u2019 game.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrent is a player we have tracked for some time, and we\u2019re excited he has joined our club,\u201d Clarke said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has shown at Melbourne he is a defender who can attack the game from half-back and he also has the versatility to play through the midfield.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrent adds more premiership experience to our squad and is in the right age demographic to contribute to our list for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Viney joins the club on a two-season deal while Rivers has locked in for five. \u201cOnce it became…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,53746,64,63,55,639,10124,588,85,7067],"class_list":["post-927733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-afl-trades","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-fremantle-dockers","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-west-coast-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927733","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=927733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}