1987 West Coast Eagles season


The 1987 VFL season was the West Coast Eagles' inaugural season in the Victorian Football League. The club was introduced to the competition as part of the VFL's expansion. Ron Alexander was appointed coach of the team and Ross Glendinning was appointed captain. The Eagles played 22 games, winning 11 and losing 11 to finish 8th on the ladder.

List

Squad

Pre-season

National Panasonic Cup

West Coast played their first match against another AFL club during the 1987 National Panasonic Cup, the VFL's night series at the time, defeating by 29 points at Waverley Park after trailing by 28 points at three-quarter time.
Home team's score listed in bold:
RoundDateScoreOpponentOpponent's ScoreResultVenueAttendance
1Tuesday, 3 March 2:10pm12.15 8.10 Won by 29 pointsWaverley Park4,599
2Saturday, 21 March 2:10pm12.15 10.4 Won by 23 pointsWaverley Park5,047
SFTuesday, 14 April 2:10pm5.10 22.16 Lost by 108 pointsWaverley Park12 625

Regular season

Home team's score listed in bold:
RoundDateScoreOpponentOpponent's ScoreResultVenueAttendanceBest on groundTeam
1Sunday, 29 March 2:10pm20.13 16.23 Won by 14 pointsSubiaco Oval23,897Phil Narkle
2Saturday, 4 April 2:10pm17.12 17.17 Lost by 5 pointsWindy Hill19,845Leon Baker
3Sunday, 12 April 2:10pm14.13 18.16 Lost by 27 pointsSubiaco Oval35,719Greg Williams
4Saturday, 18 April 2:10pm15.14 29.17 Lost by 87 pointsPrinces Park20,750Paul Meldrum
5Saturday, 25 April 2:10pm15.14 13.14 Won by 12 pointsPrinces Park10,588Chris Mainwaring
6Sunday, 3 May 2:10pm24.18 13.10 Won by 74 pointsSubiaco Oval28,543Robert Wiley
7Friday, 8 May 7:40pm10.21 8.14 Won by 19 pointsWACA Ground25,799Ross Glendinning
8Saturday, 16 May 2:10pm6.13 14.13 Lost by 48 pointsMoorabbin Oval11,537Warren Jones
9Sunday, 24 May 7:40pm20.15 18.11 Won by 16 pointsSubiaco Oval23,366Dwayne Lamb
10Monday, 1 June 2:10pm19.23 11.14 Won by 57 pointsSubiaco Oval38,274John Annear
11Saturday, 6 June 2:10pm15.9 18.13 Lost by 22 pointsWestern Oval15,089Brian Royal
12Saturday, 13 June 2:10pm12.13 13.13 Lost by 6 pointsKardinia Park17,504Bruce Lindner
13Friday, 19 June 7:40pm16.18 5.12 Won by 72 pointsWACA Ground13,540John Annear
14Sunday, 27 June 2:10pm9.15 9.19 Lost by 4 pointsMelbourne Cricket Ground8,926Allan McKellar
15Friday, 3 July 7:40pm18.10 21.20 Lost by 28 pointsWACA Ground15,740Paul Salmon
16Friday, 10 July 7:40pm15.17 15.14 Won by 3 pointsWACA Ground21,780Ross Glendinning
17Sunday, 19 July 2:10pm10.11 30.21 Lost by 130 pointsSydney Cricket Ground24,199Stephen Wright
18Sunday, 2 August 2:10pm17.13 17.12 Won by 1 pointSubiaco Oval24,502John Platten
19Friday, 7 August 7:40pm15.19 18.12 Lost by 11 pointsWACA Ground22,540Jim Krakouer
20Sunday, 16 August 2:10pm21.14 18.11 Won by 21 pointsCarrara Stadium4,859Geoff Raines
21Friday, 21 August 7:40pm10.8 18.21 Lost by 61 pointsMelbourne Cricket Ground21,048Sean Wight
22Sunday, 30 August 2:10pm26.19 13.9 Won by 88 pointsSubiaco Oval17,617Adrian Barich

Source:

Ladder

Awards

won the inaugural Club Champion Award, polling 229 votes to finish ahead of Ross Glendinning and Chris Mainwaring:
Glen Bartlett won the award for Best Clubman and Chris Mainwaring was named Rookie of the Year.