West Coast Eagles

Follow along for all the major moments and post-game reactions as the Eagles and Tigers face off at Optus Stadium.

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Follow along for all the major moments and post-game reactions as the Eagles and Tigers face off at Optus Stadium.

The Tigers, who averaged nine marks a game inside-50 before Friday night, had 15 marks inside their arc to the main break and they led by 63 points. The first-half rout included nine unanswered goals, and had Tom Lynch (3.4) been more accurate, the Tigers could have been further ahead. West Coast’s season appears in freefall after a thumping loss to Richmond on Friday night, their third successive loss exceeding 10 goals this season.

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but there’s not enough buy-in collectively across the group – the senior players are probably thinking ‘Jeez I haven’t been in this position for five, six, seven years’ and the young blokes are just thinking, ‘how good is this?’. There’s been no pressure on the kicker. West Coast have been slammed for their “horror show” start at Optus Stadium, as the Eagles managed just one goal to Richmond’s seven on Friday night.

West Coast's task of snapping their slump has been made tougher, with important defender Tom Barrass a late out for their Friday night footy clash against ...

Barrass had been in line to stand one of the Tigers’ star spearheads in Tom Lynch or Jack Riewoldt, but will instead miss his third game of the season due to a hamstring complaint. Star wingman Andrew Gaff will be West Coast’s medical sub after coach Adam Simpson on Thursday conceded he didn’t think he was “ready for a full game”. West Coast’s task of snapping their slump has been made tougher, with important defender Tom Barrass a late out against Richmond.

Round 7 of the AFL premiership season begins in Perth tonight, with the West Coast Eagles playing host to the Richmond Tigers at Optus…

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“I think the Richmond coaching group should be congratulated,” Fox Footy’s Nathan Buckley said. West Coast could only manage one goal in a “horror show” opening term. Richmond come up against West Coast and need a fill. “This is a bit like Port Adelaide, they’ve come up against the West Coast Eagles last week and needed their fill and got it. “Something to hang on to for the West Coast Eagles fans. It was a tough night for West Coast fans, but there was one moment to savour in all the carnage – veteran Josh Kennedy’s 700th AFL goal. “The challenge lays fairly at the feet of this West Coast Eagles side to dig in – I don’t know if they are capable,” Lyon said. West Coast were beaten across the ground in a Richmond “demolition” – -17 for inside 50s, -13 for hitouts and -13 for marks inside 50 in just one half of footy. In just two and a half games, statistics show West Coast have started the ball inside their forward 50 126 times – but managed to reach their inside 50 just 11 times. Brown said the onus was on the Eagles to “show some spine” in the second half. West Coast struck first to open the second half with a goal to Josh Kennedy, but it was once again matched almost immediately by the Tigers, with Shai Bolton on the end of another frighteningly easy passage of transition. By half-time, it was a 63-point lead to Richmond and the Eagles supporters were turning on their own, with key forward Jack Darling greeted with sarcastic cheers whenever he touched the ball in the second term.

Follow along for all the major moments and post-game reactions as the Eagles and Tigers face off at Optus Stadium.

The backend of the year they are going to get a hell of a lot better. We will make sure he puts the due diligence in to make sure he is ready to go when he is needed. So there is going to be plenty of opportunity for the younger players to come through and we will get a pretty clear picture of where we are at by the end of the year. I think he was terrific, his ability to jump at the ball and around the contest was great. He put a lot of work over the course of the summer. So there is going to be plenty of opportunities to get some games into some of our younger players and see where they are at. But I thought we were strong in all facets of the game tonight. We found pieces of the puzzle. We can give you reasons and excuses but we have got to look forward. So we need to stay strong and resilient behind that and like I said, you just can’t look back any more. And like I said, it is not going to happen in one week. Unfortunately, yes, tonight we butchered the ball and the turnover game, we were unable to, you know, defend behind our mistakes.