It is my understanding that the Eagles pay for and hire the coach of East Perth so blaming the coach and the development sits fairly and squarely at the Eagles.
As Chaddy said people really underestimate the WAFL, for many when a player gets on an AFL list they feel he is a very good footballer when in actual fact he is generally just a player with potential.
They are playing against seasoned good men's footballers with vast experience and struggle.
Peel won the flag last year because they had a number of players who had played large amounts of AFL.
I have always been against alignment and or stand alone AFL sides in the WAFL but I think a stand alone side would be better, with alignment you do have issues from club members what the priority is and while there might only be a thousand or two of them they pay a membership to East Perth and not to the Eagles, they would want East Perths priority to be about East Perth.