After pushing themselves to the limit, several players collapsed in the goal square to recover.<\/p>\n
They were only there briefly but it didn\u2019t stop Mitchell from lambasting the Eagles.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis image is utterly embarrassing for the West Coast Eagles on day one of pre-season,\u201d Mitchell said in a short clip posted to social media on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
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\u201cLook at the body language. From all reports, they\u2019ve just done their first running test, 11x200m sprints, which I\u2019ve done that test before. It\u2019s bloody hard.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong, AFL pre-seasons are one of the hardest things you\u2019ll ever do. But look at the body language there.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo the far left there, there\u2019s a player on his haunches. Just to his right, a player lying on his back. Below us here, four players on their hands and knees and another player below on his back.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is serious mental weakness. There\u2019s no leadership there. Thank god they got Jack Viney to stamp out some of this crap.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could not be more passionate about this. They\u2019re basically showing all of the opposition out there already that as soon as it gets hard, we\u2019re going to roll on the ground and act like we\u2019re dying.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an embarrassing image.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mitchell, who played 207 games across Sydney, Hawthorn and Collingwood, said the best teams had strict rules around body language.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is West Coast in this example,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou see this often with a lot of teams around the league. The best teams I played on had rules around this, not showing weakness.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re allowed to forget at times and go to your hands and knees. But get straight up. This is embarrassing for the Eagles on day one of pre-season.\u201d<\/p>\n
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