West Coast great Scott Cummings accuses senior Eagles players of ‘not giving a toss’ about the team

Rock-bottom West Coast need a full clean-out of coaches and a senior core who are playing for cash rather than the club, Eagles great Scott Cummings says.

Cummings, who led the Eagles’ goalkicking in 1999, says sweeping change is needed as the club reels from a record 171-point loss to Sydney.

Coach Adam Simpson has been backed by West Coast chairman Paul Fitzpatrick but Cummings says a clean-out is required.

‘I generally loathe seeing a coach get removed halfway through a season or late in a season,’ Cummings told SEN radio on Monday.

‘Or supporters screaming out “we want heads” and “heads must roll”, stability is probably the number one thing.

The 171-point mauling was the heaviest defeat in the club’s history – and you could see it on the players’ faces after the siren (pictured)

Eagles great Scott Cummings (pictured) was so incensed by what he saw at the SCG that he accused senior players at the club of not caring about how they perform

‘But with the West Coast Eagles, stability is out the window.

‘They need a full clean-out. They need new voices, they need new faces.

‘And they need players that give a toss because there’s too many there right now, I’m only talking senior players, that just don’t care – and it shows.’

Cummings labelled the Eagles’ effort as ‘putrid’ in the loss to the Swans, which extends the club-record losing streak to 12 games – four of the past eight defeats have been by more than 100 points.

‘What I saw on the weekend was just putrid from senior players who have been there a long, long time who keep saying how much they love the club,’ Cummings said.

West Coast have lost a record 12 games in a row, with four of the last eight of those defeats coming by more than 100 points

Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick has publicly backed coach Adam Simpson (pictured after the Swans loss) but Cummings wants heads to roll in Perth

‘At the moment I am seeing players play for cash, not for their club, they’re playing for contracts.

‘There’s a handful of players that if they decide to go on at the end of the year, they are playing for money.

‘Because there is no way in the world you can watch what we saw on Saturday and say that they care or have any pride in their jumper at the moment.

‘For that reason alone, to me, says there needs be change.’