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I'll be honest, I did see any of the first half of the Port game. Actually, that's not quite true - I saw the last 30 seconds, when Travis Boak wobbled one through just before the siren. The commentators reliably informed me that goal was against the run of play. That after a slow start, the...

How did you react? Did you mirror the team by falling into a stunned silence, doing a whole lot of nothing and hoping the badness would go away? Did you lose your head and start tossing bottles and chairs like so many Russians on their French holidays? Or did you take a calm moment to confirm to...

So which side of the fence do you sit on? Are the Eagles bang on track to frighten the finalists this season and build for a dynasty in the coming years, or are they crumbling into the abyss in 2015 with little hope of climbing out for half a decade? It’s one or the other, no room in the middle...

To whom it may concern, As you should know, last season I provided a weekly preview for each of the West Coast Eagles' matches. These were widely revered as the greatest in BigFooty's history, and proved to be a small glimmer of joy in an otherwise dreary 2013 season for our beloved Eagles. It...

So it’s come to this. I must say, when I set out on this preview writing journey all the way back in February, I quietly expected to be finishing up somewhere in September, and I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t planned a few words for grand final day. Alas, that wasn’t to be, and our 2013 swansong...

How are we all feeling? Have you shaken off the concussion yet? Nursed those bumps and bruises back to health? It was quite a nasty fall we all took last Saturday night, as the slight elevation we gained after the Essendon game served only to make our thud back to earth against Geelong all the...

After the season that we’ve had, I feel as if we all deserved last Sunday’s game. We’ve put up with some tosh in 2013 as Eagles fans, so it was incredibly gratifying to be able to enjoy even the slightest bit of football related happiness at the expense of Essendon. It doesn’t mean that we are...

Fear not, for I have returned! Sure, you may have enjoyed @QS’ funnier, more informative and far shorter preview last week, not to mention the win that went with it, but you need to stop living in the past. As much as I’d love to hang the boots up for the season and nurse my injuries back to...

Another home game, another loss. Fortress Subiaco has been anything but this season, and there have been all sorts of theories tossed up as to why we seem to be performing better away from Perth this season. Who knows, maybe the tri-panel guernsey is cursed after all? Well whatever it is, it’s...

Once again, we reconvene after a disappointing loss and we look forward to the future. A future that is getting bleaker and bleaker as the weeks go by, and one that is certainly not what we all had in mind. Last Sunday afternoon’s derby was probably our best performance of the season, especially...

Well, we won. To be honest, I wasn’t really prepared for that. It was hardly a performance to write home about, and we probably benefitted strongly from the bog averageness of this current Adelaide side, but who cares. We refuse to let this season go without a fight, which I suppose is...

Another week, another loss at home. But this game had one very serious bit of upside that is too important to ignore. Sure, we coughed up a decent lead to lose yet another important game, and sure, that probably means our season is as good as done. None of this really matters though, because...

In a strange way, last Friday night may well have taken the cake for most frustrating Eagles game of the season. Not for the same reasons as some of the previous games mind you, in which the frustration was created by a never ending flow of complete incompetence. Instead, for the very first time...

And we’re back. The bye has come and gone like a blissful period of ceasefire, and now we get to strap ourselves back in and see what the rest of 2013 has in store for our Eagles. The next month would be flat out terrifying even for the best of teams, and as such we will need to have one hell of...

How could we have all been so stupid? How could we have all been so very wrong? Not just us on the inside either, but almost everyone with any passing interest in football. Sure, not everyone thought we could win the flag, and there were probably a handful that went against the grain and...

Very seldom does a football game produce as few talking points as our match with the Giants. Honestly, what happened that was interesting? It was a fun way to spend a couple of hours on a Saturday, but it provided a hollow feeling perhaps only an easter egg could relate too. Some were saying it...

Sometimes, on the rarest of occasions, perfection in sport can be achieved. Sometimes it is one singular moment of unsurpassed brilliance, like Warne’s miraculous leggie in Manchester two decades ago. Sometimes it is a fairytale ending for a deserving champion, ala Steve Waugh’s last ball cover...

Some obscure singer a few years ago informed us that the great city of Rome wasn’t built in a day. Hey hey hey. And now, as round eight of the 2013 season approaches for the Eagles, said obscure singer’s words have never been truer. We’re taking small steps, but steps nonetheless. At the moment...

It’s been a week of deep breaths at the Eagles, as the dark black clouds are being replaced by regular grey ones. It’s still raining a bit, and the bureau is saying there’s every chance it could kick off again, but for the time being, the arks are staying firmly in the sheds. Which is quite...

Where to start? Perhaps with a disclaimer. This week’s preview will contain an awful lot of review, not just of the Port game but of probably the last six months or so. It’s going to be fairly self-indulgent, because given my isolation in little ol’ Brisbane, I have no other means of venting...

Who’d have guessed we’d be in the state we are in? Even at our most pessimistic in the pre-season, did we really think that not only would we be one for three, but playing like a busted arse to boot? And even more bizarre, we are travelling to Adelaide to play an undefeated Port side who have...

How much fun is football when you’re winning? Last Saturday finally allowed us two quarters of relaxation as we watched our Eagles do what they do best – tonk some poor helpless team into oblivion. While some will say that a big win over Melbourne counts for little at the moment, the truth is...

It’s been a really rough week for us West Coast Eaglians. Hell, it’s been a rough season all round so far. We’ve played some scarily gash footy, we’re losing player after player to injury, and all of this with the pretence that we are in the middle of a fight for a premiership. It’s been like...

So. We’re back. How have we all coped over the past week and a bit? The AFL have been kind enough to offer us an extra week to stew over the wreckage of that round one derby, and in the immediate aftermath, it really did have the appearance of some sort of metaphorical ground zero. Pretty much...

Alright West Coast, time to get serious. Regardless of what you think about the NAB Cup, that was pretty ordinary. You keep telling us how good the pre-season has been, bragging about these incredible times you’re all running in your trials. You even let Jamie Cripps turn it into a dig at St...

It’s been a weird week at West Coast. Well, perhaps not within the club itself, but certainly for the legions of fans across the country. Well, perhaps not all the fans, but certainly the collection of mentally unstable individuals who regularly convene on the Eagles BigFooty board. At lunch...

Squad selection on page 4. Match discussion begins page 9. Post match discussion begins page 21. The NAB Cup continues to roll on in 2013, and with it comes that all too familiar pre-season hollowness. It’s kinda footy, but it’s not really. It’s like paying your cover charge at a strip club...

WCE/Geelong match discussion begins page on page 9. WCE/Freo match discussion begins on page 19. Post match discussion begins on page 23. As off-seasons go, that one was flat out dull. We West Coast supporters have come to expect a certain kind of madness in the summer months, and somewhere...

I've just read that apparently someone said at some stage on 6PR this morning that JK is training with the main group and will return to footy next week, straight into the AFL and bypassing the WAFL. Now, although my second hand report is incredibly deep and thorough, it would probably benefit...

I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice that this place is starting to get a little blue. Sure, the last few days have been a little rough on us fans, but given that I love each and every one of you dearly, I have arrived just in time to talk you off the ledge. So come to Dr TSYW with your...