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Flying High with the West Coast Eagles

AFL Final List Lodgements

The Final List Lodgements are in the 2006 AFL premiership season. Our 2006 list now gives us 3 places to fill via the November 26 NAB draft, and a further 3 to fill via the December rookie draft. No surprises with McConnell (traded), Green, Humm and Beeck (delisted) off the ...

Off the Email

Better shoot this over the Adrian Anderson to sort out: A letter in today's Canberra Times suggests that the 2006 season could be "a bit of a fizzer" if the anti-terrorist laws take out the Bombers, the IR laws exclude the Dockers, and avian flu gets the Crows, Swans, Eagles, Hawks ...

More Delistings…

The list purging continues around the AFL with the player carousel throwing off aborted careers daily. One of the newly delisted is one-time Troy Wilson replacement, David Haynes. Haynes was traded to Geelong at the end of 2003 in a move that surprised some after he played most of that ...

2005 - What’s Left?

AFL.com.au - amidst all bigpond ad's and awkwardly cobbled together content - have a calendar of events for what the rest of the year holds. It's a bit out of date - you'll need to quickly scroll through September to avoid an unwanted and premature recap of 9-24 - but ...

Good for footy? I hope so

Greg Baum asks before yesterday's decider What happens next if Sydney wins the flag? In a rugby dominated market he explores the question of just how far a Sydney premiership will actually go. For all the marketing, good will and now the ultimate success, apparently there is still miles to go ...

September 5th 2008
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Three Eagles Axed

Already out the door of the West Coast Eagles are three players from the 2008 list - Steven Armstrong, Chad Jones, and James Thomson. No surprise for Jones - when Notte was selected in front of him twice the writing was on the wall. Thomson is a chance to be relisted as ...
September 4th 2008
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My All Australian Team

The All Australian selectors have released their shortlist of 40 players vying for the 2008 All Australian team. In view of the fact our side is now on holidays I thought I'd put together my AA team from the shortlist. This is my preferred team, not necessarily who I think ...
September 3rd 2008
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End of the Road

That's it then. It's been a while since I posted here. A combination of a holiday, sickness and apathy caused by some insipid and uninspiring games. What can you say but I'm glad its over. Not sure if I've ever felt that way about a season before, at least not ...
July 31st 2008
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West Coast Eagles - Round 18 Team

No - none! - outs for this week's game v. Fremantle. Just the addition of Glass, Houlihan and Davis to the mix. West Coast Eagles B: Mark Nicoski, Darren Glass, Eric Mackenzie HB: Adam Selwood, Beau Wilkes, Andrew Embley C: Michael Braun, Brad Ebert, Tyson Stenglein HF: David Wirrpanda, Ashley Hansen, Steven Armstrong F: Mark LeCras, ...
July 31st 2008
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The Monday Expert Round 17 - West Coast Eagles vs St Kilda

Summary West Coast 2.3 6.5 9.11 15.13 (103) St Kilda 4.5 6.6 9.9 12.14 (86) I enjoyed this game more than any all year. It was a ripper. Maybe that's contributed to the long delay on writing this up - it was such sweet relief from 7 ...