Popular premiership forward Daniel Venables has joined the football hub with the West Coast Eagles.

While he remains sidelined for the 2020 season, Venables has been in the Eagles temporary home on the Gold Coast for the last week in quarantine, but is now clear to venture outside the restricted zone on the same conditions as everyone else at the club.

He was at training this morning, assisting training staff as the club went through what would ordinarily be classified as the main session of the week. But with stricter controls imposed after the Conor McKenna case at Essendon, it was a full squad, non-contact exercise.

After a considered evaluation and discussion Venables determined in February that he would sit out of football as he recovered from a very significant head knock he received in the round nine game against Melbourne last year.

Venables was placed on the long-term injury list.

His teammates have enjoyed having him around as he was enthusiastically welcomed back into the fold. He spent a week in self-isolation in his home State before completing the required COVID-19 testing and isolation protocols inside the Royal Pines Resort.

“Venables has been awesome, the morale that he brings," ruckman Nic Naitanui said.

"He’s actually filling up water bottles and ice bins and things like that. He just wanted to fly up and help the boys out.

"Guys like that really make the footy club. You have your stars of the club but guys like that – he’s obviously a premiership player going through some of his trials and tribulations at the moment - but just to see him smiling and to see him around the boys just lifts everyone’s spirits, especially when you’re losing and you’re away from home.

"To see a fresh face, I wouldn’t say a fresh face, he’s got a big beard and scruffy hair, but to see him come up and tell stories about what is happening back in Victoria and how much he misses the club and how much he wants to be around the boys it’s an awesome feeling."