West Coast coach Adam Simpson has slammed comments from Brownlow medallist Brad Hardie that his players are “cheating” in their training loads and that behaviour is showing up on the field.

Hardie revealed on 6PR on Monday that sources had told him a group of West Coast players were skipping elements of their training and Simpson had found out about it.

West Coast coach Adam Simpson has slammed Brad Hardie's criticism of his West Coast playing group. Credit:Michael Dodge

But when quizzed on 6pr’s Sports Today program on Monday night the former Hawthorn assistant coach stood by his new playing group.

"I heard you mention this, this morning, where did you get this from?” Simpson said.