West Coast Eagles offer blueprint to screen staff EXPERIENCE: West Coast chief executive Trevor Nisbett says the club could help provide a blueprint for screening staff. WEST Coast could become a blueprint for AFL clubs across the country, with CEO Trevor Nisbett saying the Eagles' drug scandals last decade had spawned systems that could help the league in the wake of this week's damning Australian Crime Commission report. Nisbett also said he had no doubt all clubs, including the Eagles, were "pushing the envelope as far as we can," but that it was crucial to the sport that the boundaries not be broken. This week, the AFL instigated changes that require every club to submit a list of all drugs and supplements given to players, while conducting background checks on all club personnel and setting up a unit to field player concerns. West Coast faced sanctions from the AFL in 2007 after several off-field incidents. The club commissioned an independent review that revealed a troubling culture and the Eagles moved swiftly to implement all recommendations, resulting in the AFL's threats being lifted a year later. Nisbett said the club already had a "thorough induction process with all our staff." While acknowledging every club would require different strategies to combat issues, the Eagles were willing and able to use their experience to help the AFL. "There's no doubt we can assist," Nisbett said. Each environment's different and each club has a different culture, but there's no doubt we can assist with some processes in things that we do, have done and have implemented. I think it's also an opportunity for clubs to look at their staffing and whether they've got the right people in the right places to assist them in knowing what's going on in their club. All clubs act differently, so you'd have to ask each club individually what their plans are going forward, but it certainly puts everyone on notice and we've never taken this for granted. We're diligent and we'll remain this way. Nisbett does not believe sports science has gone through a boom in the AFL, but that certain elements had become rife and required reining in. I'm not sure it's boomed. I think what's happened is that there's been a lot of self-promotion by sports scientists who've been detrimental to the game. That's my opinion," he said. Sports science; we push the envelope as far as we can, within legal bounds, and there's no doubt that's what every sports organisation does. But you can't go out of bounds.