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Find your Sport Nation frequency“He wants to stay”: Ex-Eagles coach Simpson on Hawthorn trade target Oscar Allen
Lachlan Geleit • March 10th, 2025 2:41 pm
Former West Coast coach Adam Simpson is sure that Eagles captain Oscar Allen wants to remain at the club.
The free agent, who comes out of contract at the end of the year, is reportedly being chased by Brisbane and Hawthorn on long-term big-money deals.
While Simpson knows that the 25-year-old wants to remain in Perth, the West Australian has reported that the Eagles have only offered a ‘medium-term contract’ as things stand.
As a result, Simpson hopes that the club and player can work things out and he weighed in on his pending free agency decision with Sam Edmund on SEN’s Crunch Time.
Edmund: “This will be his biggest contract, won't it, for Oscar Allen? … This is manager 101.
“He’s a local product, would he be tempted to go to a club like Hawthorn who wouldn’t be able to compete financially with West Coast?
“Does he go off chasing a premiership that maybe he doesn't think he can get if he stays at West Coast? It really depends on what the player wants out of the rest of his career, and I don't pretend to think for Oscar Allen, but this will be the biggest deal of his career.
“There'll be no shortage of interest, Brisbane has been linked to him and surely it’s, ‘Take a ticket and get in line’, for a player like Oscar Allen.”
Simpson: “He wants to stay. So, I'm just hoping they work it out.
“There's some things I can't talk about because it's not the right thing to do. I’m still pretty close to them obviously. But let’s hope they can work it out.
“I'll tell you what though, Hawthorn has gone to another level when they're recruiting, and it's the whole package.
“I reckon I've met 50 players in my time at my house … you do all the sell and you’ve got your footy manager there.
“But then I think through Sam (Mitchell) and the rest of the guys at Hawthorn, they’ve gone to levels where it's the whole package, it's also selling (the move for) the wives, the kids … it’s the whole sell, and you do have to put work into it.”
The Hawks have attracted a raft of players in recent off-seasons including Josh Battle, Tom Barrass, Mabior Chol, Massimo D’Ambrosio and Jack Ginnivan.
