It has been mentioned that we are the 2nd youngest side in finals this year. Are we just a super young team throughout history, or is someone telling fibs?
Fourth-youngest this weekend behind the Dogs, Adelaide and Richmond. Whoever is left out of the 22 on Sunday won't have a bearing.
The Bulldogs at 25.02 are the "second-oldest, youngest" team to be involved in an Elimination/Qualifying Final weekend, after Collingwood (25.09) in 1980.
But yes, West Coast are historically a young team. Each club's oldest team since 1987:
27.81 Port Adelaide 2005 R15
27.70 Hawthorn 2015 QF*
27.65 Brisbane 2004 R22
27.62 Fremantle 2015 R22
27.57 Geelong 2010 PF
27.43 Sydney 1989 R16
27.42 North Melbourne 2015 R21
27.17 Adelaide 2006 R16
27.17 St.Kilda 2012 R12
27.05 Carlton 2001 R17
26.96 Western Bulldogs 2010 PF
26.43 Essendon 1990 R10
26.35 Melbourne 1995 R11
26.30 Collingwood 2006 R10
26.26 Richmond 2001 SF
26.01 Fitzroy 1994 R1
25.96 West Coast 2013 R13
23.88 Gold Coast 2015 R15
23.68 Greater Western Sydney 2015 R3
Quite a few of those teams were going/about to go over the cliff.