1988 West Coast Eagles season


The 1988 VFL season was the West Coast Eagles' second season in the Victorian Football League. John Todd was appointed coach after Ron Alexander was sacked and Ross Glendinning remained captain. The Eagles played 22 games, winning 11 and losing 11 to finish 8th on the ladder.

List

Recruitment

West Coast recruited 12 players, with 11 from WAFL clubs, for the 1988 season:

Pre-season

Panasonic Cup

West Coast defeated by 87 points in front of a crowd of 12,587 at the WACA Ground in the first round of the competition, the first night-series/pre-season match to be played in Western Australia since 1981, before losing to by 36 points in the second round.
Home team's score listed in bold:
RoundDateScoreOpponentOpponent's ScoreResultVenueAttendance
1Wednesday, 10 February 2:10pm19.14 5.11 Won by 87 pointsWACA Ground12,587
2Saturday, 12 March 2:10pm8.12 14.12 Lost by 36 pointsWaverley Park5,992

Regular season

Home team's score listed in bold:
RoundDateScoreOpponentOpponent's ScoreResultVenueAttendanceBest on groundTeam
1Saturday, 2 April 2:10pm14.20 11.17 Won by 21 pointsKardinia Park 20,781Alex Ishchenko
2Friday, 8 April 7:40pm26.19 11.10 Won by 99 pointsWACA Ground24,886John Gastev
3Sunday, 17 April 2:10pm29.18 10.14 Won by 118 pointsWACA Ground16,354Chris Mainwaring
4Saturday, 23 April 2:10pm8.7 13.16 Lost by 87 pointsVictoria Park26,276James Manson
5Friday, 29 April 7:40pm14.16 14.9 Won by 7 pointsWACA Ground17,662Ross Glendinning
6Friday, 6 May 7:40pm17.8 17.23 Lost by 13 pointsMelbourne Cricket Ground10,133Donald McDonald
7Friday, 13 May 7:40pm17.10 3.18 Won by 76 pointsWACA Ground12,803Alex Ishchenko
8Sunday, 22 May 2:10pm9.9 17.14 Lost by 53 pointsSubiaco Oval27,344Chris Wittman
9Sunday, 29 May 2:10pm12.15 15.10 Lost by 13 pointsSubiaco Oval27,663Ken Hunter
10Sunday, 5 June 2:10pm10.15 16.20 Lost by 41 pointsMelbourne Cricket Ground7,157Peter Wilson
11Monday, 13 June 2:10pm10.13 13.15 Lost by 20 pointsMelbourne Cricket Ground28,045Alan Johnson
12Sunday, 19 June 2:10pm8.13 14.20 Lost by 43 pointsSydney Cricket Ground12,664Michael Parsons
13Sunday, 26 June 2:10pm17.19 13.9 Won by 34 pointsSubiaco Oval15,028Wally Matera
14Saturday, 2 July 2:10pm13.7 16.16 Lost by 27 pointsWindy Hill10,298Simon Madden
15Sunday, 10 July 2:10pm18.18 16.10 Won by 20 pointsSubiaco Oval18,537Chris Mainwaring
16Friday, 15 July 7:40pm14.14 12.17 Won by 9 pointsWACA Ground16,074Mark Withers
17Friday, 22 July 7:40pm8.16 19.20 Lost by 70 pointsMelbourne Cricket Ground7,611John Ironmonger
18Sunday, 31 July 2:10pm18.14 11.12 Won by 44 pointsSubiaco Oval16,266Murray Rance
19Sunday, 7 August 2:10pm16.9 12.12 Won by 31 pointsSubiaco Oval18,193Guy McKenna
20Saturday, 13 August 2:10pm14.13 13.10 Won by 9 pointsMoorabbin Oval11,074Laurie Keene
21Sunday, 21 August 7:40pm16.15 7.9 Won by 60 pointsSubiaco Oval36,638Karl Langdon
22Sunday, 28 August 2:10pm7.11 3.11 Won by 24 pointsWestern Oval18,456Chris Mainwaring
EFSaturday, 3 September 2:10pm10.11 11.7 Lost by 2 pointsWaverley Park43,438––

Source:

Ladder