Everyone hated me’: Eagles skipper reveals truth about explosive meeting with rival

West Coast Eagles co-captain Oscar Allen has bravely opened up on a difficult past month that saw him step away from the game, while also revealing the truth about his meeting with Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell.

Appearing on Pete & Kymba with Ben Cousins on Mix94.5 this morning, Allen shared the mental health challenges that he has faced after his meeting with Mitchell, which stole headlines across the footy media world.

“It’s been a difficult probably month, four to five weeks. Highlighted that we’re probably not playing well as a team, we haven’t won a game yet this year and I’ve been playing poorly as well, so there’s been a couple of other factors involved,” Allen said.

Allen has known Mitchell since he was drafted to the club and has a relationship with the now Hawthorn coach that spans almost a decade.

It had been reported that Mitchell and Allen had met for a coffee at a café, but Allen revealed the pair had caught up for a private dinner at Allen’s own residence.

We’ve had a relationship for a long period of time. I caught up with Sam, the thing that kind of frustrated me was people are annoyed, ‘Oh, you did it in public’,” he said.

I had dinner with Sam privately at my house and nothing else was involved, no one else was there.

“That’s the thing that frustrated me a little bit is that we caught up completely privately. No one else was involved whatsoever. It was just two guys having a chat. We talked about a lot of things, but yeah, we were just having a conversation about where I’m at, how I’ve been going this year and a combination of things.”