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How do West Coast always bounce back so quickly as a club ???
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Yep, 15th, 11th, 16th with a compromised draft is top shelf tanking.
We'll be amazing in a few years when Cotchin, Martin, Scully & Swallow come on... wait, what?
That's the interesting thing isn't. It hasn't been an injection of top draft picks (or big recruits that have got us here) except NicNat.
Worsha knows what is required to build premiership teams and the club hates losing.
Still a while to go this time around though.
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You're kidding right? You've had 7 top 20 draft picks since 2007. The only club with more is Melbourne.
Fair play to West Coast on developing their players and playing a good contested game style, but it's not like you missed out on decent picks.
They have a well financed football department dont they?
This is becoming a bigger and bigger factor every year, and separates teams in an age of salary caps and the draft.
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Since we won the flag our first round picks have been:
2006: Brown (16)
2007: Masten (3), Ebert (13)
2008: Naitanui (2)
2009: Sheppard (7)
2010: Gaff (4)
With the exception of Naitanui, none of those guys have played major roles in 2011. It's not an array of duds, but it's not like we replaced Judd & Cousins with Martin/Cotchin or Scully/Trengove etc.
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Melbourne have had 10 top 20 picks since 2007 with two #1s, a #2 and a #4 amongst them.
West Coast have had 8.
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although its not as though you got junk for judd. Added kennedy and masten which accelerated your rebuild. So essentially you can add pick 5 and 3 on to that list not to mention pick 20 odd.
It's been good recovery this year.
To be a serious finals contender you MUST beat sides lower than you at their ground. So far we're doing a bit of this.
But as for why do we bounce back so quickly - Money and massive support, not always financial but the Eagles have HUGE psychological support in WA. There is a real desire to see them do well. You have a very large percentage of the community wanting success for them. This is why the Dockers are a little left behind, because they were second cab off the rank.
The division of community loyalties to a footy side is not the same in WA ( or SA ) as it is in Vic. QLD and NSW do not compete in the community in the same way for supporters.
To be a serious finals contender you MUST beat sides lower than you at their ground. So far we're doing a bit of this.
But as for why do we bounce back so quickly - Money and massive support, not always financial but the Eagles have HUGE psychological support in WA. There is a real desire to see them do well. You have a very large percentage of the community wanting success for them. This is why the Dockers are a little left behind, because they were second cab off the rank.
The division of community loyalties to a footy side is not the same in WA ( or SA ) as it is in Vic. QLD and NSW do not compete in the community in the same way for supporters.
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bloody beautiful.......!!!!!!!:d
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As opposed to playing a boring risk free game plan, finish bottom of the 8 year in year out, win week 1 against a pretender then drop out of finals achieving nothing other than staying solvent.
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I'm sure they do it just just to piss myself and the other non wc supporters in WA off, can't read the paper any more or listen to the talkback on the radio!
On a more serious note though, wc have always seemed to draft really well. They have great facilities and as other people have said, the whole club seems to have a winning (almost arrogant, no, scratch the almost) attitude.
On a more serious note though, wc have always seemed to draft really well. They have great facilities and as other people have said, the whole club seems to have a winning (almost arrogant, no, scratch the almost) attitude.
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Well in 2009, had we only won 4 games, we would have gotten Martin, Morabito and Fyfe
Then in any other season, finishing 16th last year would have gotten us Swallow
So we did miss out on a few there, only by choice
IMO this years improvement has come largely from the players believing in the change of game plan from the crap one they've persisted with last few years.On Broadbridge,to me he didn't make the good kickers bad,he just couldn't improve anyones kicking.
Let me state the obvious, a common occurence on Bigfooty.
- Strong winning culture
- Exceptional recruiting
- Exceptional management of injured players
- Home field advantage magnified when team is in form.
- Strong winning culture
- Exceptional recruiting
- Exceptional management of injured players
- Home field advantage magnified when team is in form.
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I feel the various off field dramas after the 06 flag set the Eagles back a couple of years, but they got that sorted over time and now have got a strong and disciplined playing group. Picking up Jack Darling was also an unexpected bonus
This is the first year Woosha has beem allowed to Coach the Club , the past three seasons have been about re establishing the off field culture . Plus Alan Cransberg as Chairman , high achiever who doesnt accept failure well 
Pleasantly surprised and may it continue for little longer
Pleasantly surprised and may it continue for little longer
The real question West Coast supporters should be asking is why do they bottom out so quickly.
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You lose Two of your best players, who were perhaps the two best midfielders in the game at the time. See how you do.
Wank - the last time we spent years going nowhere until we finally dropped down to the bottom four. A bit like that which your club is going thru now.
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