the co-captain then fronting the media for an awkward press conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cThis has been one of the messier endings between club and captain \u2013 events that they\u2019d probably all like again,\u201d AFL 360 co-host Gerard Whateley said on Monday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Oscar Allen did the wrong thing meeting Sam Mitchell, the club did the wrong thing parading him for an apology. There was never any intention from the club to recontract its captain.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I do know is Oscar Allen will be happier in Brisbane than he has been at West Coast.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they are all at fault here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Melbourne legend and fellow AFL 360 co-host Garry Lyon added: \u201cThat was a mess. Captains shouldn\u2019t meet with other coaches \u2013 and I maintain that, I said it at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a certain honour and dignity that comes with being the captain of the club. Sitting down with an opposition coach at that time was not the way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Coast will reportedly consider asking the AFL for an unprecedented exemption as part of its draft assistance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,28460,15840,71971,71972,64,63,689,55,15824,639,67037,3423,20781,651,3237,1135,19127,18005,71966,11241,30307,15839,71968,15832,10145,61,54482,673,677,71967,15836,71970,701,12936,85,670,11236,71969,71965,660,7067],"class_list":["post-98237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-agency-compensation","tag-agency-compensation-pick","tag-agency-compensation-selection","tag-assistance-package","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australian-football-league-commission","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-awkward-press-conference","tag-ben-waterworth","tag-brandon-starcevich","tag-brisbane","tag-brisbane-lions","tag-cal-twomey","tag-compensation-pick","tag-compensation-selection","tag-compo-pick","tag-contract-extension","tag-don-pyke","tag-draft-assistance","tag-draft-assistance-package","tag-draft-picks","tag-garry-lyon","tag-gerard-whateley","tag-inks-extension","tag-new-south-wales","tag-oceania","tag-opposition-coach","tag-oscar-allen","tag-priority-pitch","tag-queensland","tag-sam-mitchell","tag-sports","tag-sydney","tag-trade-news","tag-uncharted-territory","tag-unprecedented-exemption","tag-victoria","tag-west-coast-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98237","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=98237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}