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So this may die in the ass in six weeks time, or it may end up consuming way more of my time than ever imagined, but I've gone and started an Eagles blog. It won't try to be definitive, and I'll never claim that anything I say is 100% accurate or that my opinions are anywhere approaching...

Not sure if it's known, but WAFL Footy Facts is just about the best WAFL site there is. Actually, there's no "just about" about it. It IS the best WAFL site there is. Anyway, one of the recent additions to the site is the Budget of the Week section, where swans4eva! picks 3 great budgets from...

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/11/meet-the-west-coast-eagles-cfo-who-joined-the-club-at-the-top-of-its-game/ Nothing earth-shattering, but nice little piece on someone I hadn't heard of :)

Having a bit of back and forth on Twitter at the moment about the decisions of the club. Some think that a membership of the West Coast Eagles means that you should get an input into the decisions of the club... whereas I think my membership money should get me a seat at 11 home games, and...

So much knee-jerk reaction going on over the past few weeks, so it's time we were all reminded that we've had worse starts to very good (or great) seasons before. Anyone here remember 1992? Here's how we went: Rd 1 - BYE Rd 2 - Lost to Sydney (who would then win only 3.5 of their next 43...

I honestly think we as fans have had it all wrong from the start. It's the media who know everything. So when we think a player who rates from "who?" to "quite good" is called a star, we shouldn't question it and think cynically that it's only because "star" takes up less headline space than...

Decent episode - however this is completely down to the guest. Phil Carman was a great interviewee, gave honest answers. However Mike Sheahan continues to amaze and befuddle. Nothing mentioned of Carman's SANFL career before he joined Collingwood. Carman dropped heaps of information which...

Now, I know it's not the most pressing issue going around, but have some of these cheersquads actually seen the signs they hold up at matches? "BRENDAN McCARTNEY 'MACCA' OUR TASK MASTER" I mean, WTF does that even mean? And who thought it would make a decent sign? And then there's this...

OK - just because I can't in all honesty sit and complain about there being too much negativity here (that would be far too ironic), I'm going to start a thread where I go back over the past 26 years and rank our greatest matches. I was going to do a strict 10-1 countdown, but that's been done...

Starting this Friday. Promising older matches. Looks like they've got three, one-hour slots back-to-back-back starting midday EST. Any idea what they're going to show??

Two Eagles in there - Glass and Cox. Best of all... wait for it - Glass is his AA Captain.

Bernie Naylor (Born: 19-4-23 Died: 26-9-93) First Game: Round 1, 1941 (South Fremantle vs Perth - kicked 6.5) Final Game: Grand Final, 1954 (South Fremantle v West Perth - kicked 7.4) Games Played: 194 Goals Kicked: 1034 Finals Matches: 21 Finals Goals: 93 Grand Finals: 1947, 48, 50, 51, 52...

I know the Shuey v Heppell debate has been done to death here and I don't want to start another one (we'll find out the winner on Wednesday). But this is interesting. Garry Lyon writes an article on the Rising Star class for 2011 and the headline to the article? "Don tops class of 2011" Fine...

Premieres this Sunday on Channel 9. There's a preview up on the AFL website and it looks great. This is what Aussie Rules needs. They AFL produced the '100 Years of Australian Football' program in 1996 and it was an absolute sham for many reasons, one of which is that 'big picture'...

OK, so there's not likely to be a huge list of third quarter efforts here, but was thinking about the best quarters we've played this year. Here's the ones which stand out (chronologically); Q1 - Rd 6 v Melbourne Straight out of the gates. What was it? 22-3 I50s for the quarter? Probably...

Was such a great player. Had an outstanding career for three clubs in the VFL/AFL, but many people aren't aware that his finest season came for Claremont in 1987. Romped to the Sandover Medal that season, but was ineligible due to suspension. Watch this video, and pay particular attention to...

I'm probably in the BF minority when I think that Andy D and the Commission are actually doing a good job. They're growing the game, they've bought countless of millions of dollars into the game and crowds (although down this year) have been on the up for a long time now. However they're not...

Let's face it - commentators say things that make you scratch your head or just generally yell "WTF!" quite often, but there are some comments where you have to just stop and wonder if what you heard was actually said. So, in honour of Brian Taylor, who came out with the immortal "Quentin...

1952-1953-1954 The final three years of Bernie Naylor's career for South Fremantle in the WAFL. It was also the end of an era for probably the most dominant side in WAFL history. They won flags in 1947, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1953 and 1954. Led by players such as the great Steve Marsh, the Bulldogs...

Howdy fellas. For the past year or so I've been doing my best to build up a database of WAFL match stats, such as qtr by qtr scores and goalkickers (points kickers is a bit harder, but the West started documenting these for most games in about 1936 or so). I've got all match scores entered, and...

Why wouldn't the AFL/Radio Stations make radio commentaries from games available for download? Each game has got a number of radio feeds available, so why not make them $1.49 or something in iTunes for people to download. The fact that they're lost once the game is done is a backwards way of...

Thought some of the guys here on this forum might like this. This is from the May 9, 1938 edition of the West Australian, following the debut game of Subiaco's Captain/Coach, the great Haydn Bunton Snr. "H. Bunton, Subiaco's captain-coach, played for the club for the first time on Saturday...

Not an individual effort - but team effort. For me, I can't go past the West Coast v Geelong game at Subiaco in 2008. We won a premiership two years earlier and we never played anywhere approaching that level of football at our peak. It was like Geelong were on a completely different plane of...

Was in the HOF/Garry Lyon thread and was defending the HOF induction of Guy McKenna. Got me thinking of the John Worsfold - Glen Jakovich - Guy McKenna half back line and how that's undoubtedly one of the strongest lines in modern footy history. Then I thought about our centreline at the same...

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/all-sizzle--no-sausage-20110505-1eab1.html http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/all-sizzle--no-sausage-20110505-1eab1.html Happen to agree with Walls on this one (one of the very, very few times). Bluey's comments were unnecessary. Sure the Bears didn't...

Been looking throughout the online Newspaper archive at the NLA and have specifically looking at old WAFL match reports. It's amazing to read the way the matches were reported back then. Obviously there was no TV, so the writers would have to describe the play more. The below article is from...

So, I've been putting a few WAFL stats in the 'Post 5 Random...' thread, but I thought I'd start up my own thread for this stuff and just keep putting things in here as I go along. Basically, what I've been doing these past few months is doing my best to start compiling WAFL match scores, goal...

Was in Adelaide over the weekend for my brother's wedding and while out walking the streets of Glenelg, I came across a book called 'Footy Facts '86-87'. Damn great book for those of us who trawl this board. Highlights: 1) Year-by-year stats of Kevin Bartlett (incl. kicks, handballs, marks...

Our song sucks. Plain and simple. In the history of VFL/AFL songs (of which I claim to know no real history of), it ranks somewhere down the bottom, the equivalent of filler on a Right Said Fred album. It's horrible. In the beginning, it had the verses and the chorus. The verses sang of how we...

Since it's all trade talk around here, or continued talk of our shittiest season, I thought it would be good to share of a day when we were much better than we are now. March 22, 1992 was the week before the AFL season started. We were playing a scratch match against the Sydney Swans at Subiaco...