2011 West Coast Eagles season
| Highest home attendance | 42,803 vs. Carlton (semi-final) |
|---|---|
| Lowest home attendance | 35,059 vs. Port Adelaide (round 13) |
| Average home attendance | 37,436 |
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At the conclusion of the season, Glass was awarded the Club Champion Award as the club's best and fairest, with Matt Priddis finishing runner-up. Josh Kennedy was the leading goal-kicker, kicking 59 goals throughout the season.
Background
The Eagles' leadership group for 2011 was composed of the captain
Playing list
Will Sullivan, Adam Cockie and Tony Notte were delisted.[2][3][4] Tim Houlihan was delisted but was later re-listed by the Eagles in the 2011 Rookie draft.[5]
West Coast traded Ben McKinley to North Melbourne in exchange for pick 86 in the 2010 National draft.
Draft selections
- National draft selections
- 4 - Andrew Gaff (Oakleigh Chargers)
- 26 - Jack Darling (West Perth) (priority)
- 29 - Port Adelaide)
- 62 - Jacob Brennan (East Fremantle) (F/S)
- Pre-season draft selections
- 5 - Peel Thunder)
- 5 -
- Rookie draftselections
- 10 - Tim Houlihan (West Coast Eagles) (re-drafted)
- 27 - Anton Hamp (Claremont)
- 44 - Jeremy McGovern (Claremont)
West Coast also upgraded rookies Lewis Stevenson, Callum Wilson and Andrew Strijk to the senior list using selections 78, 84 and 93 respectively.
Statistics
| Player | No. | Games | Goals
|
Behinds
|
Kicks | Handballs | Disposals | Marks
|
Tackles | Notes/Milestone(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitch Brown | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 23 | 62 | 14 | 10 | |
| Mark LeCras | 2 | 22 | 47 | 29 | 237 | 121 | 358 | 92 | 86 | |
| Andrew Gaff | 3 | 17 | 7 | 7 | 172 | 130 | 302 | 75 | 19 | AFL debut (round 1) |
| Daniel Kerr | 4 | 16 | 7 | 8 | 174 | 220 | 394 | 35 | 38 | |
| Brad Ebert | 5 | 22 | 14 | 7 | 176 | 123 | 299 | 82 | 73 | |
| Mark Nicoski | 6 | 25 | 41 | 25 | 214 | 105 | 319 | 72 | 70 | |
| Chris Masten | 7 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 91 | 99 | 190 | 32 | 42 | |
| Beau Waters | 8 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 129 | 69 | 198 | 53 | 34 | |
| Nic Naitanui | 9 | 23 | 18 | 10 | 120 | 179 | 299 | 50 | 88 | |
| Scott Selwood | 10 | 25 | 9 | 10 | 220 | 248 | 468 | 69 | 202 | |
| Matt Priddis | 11 | 25 | 9 | 5 | 276 | 386 | 662 | 76 | 193 | |
| Brad Sheppard | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 48 | 26 | 74 | 17 | 22 | |
| Luke Shuey | 13 | 25 | 24 | 22 | 323 | 179 | 502 | 65 | 104 | |
| Koby Stevens | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | |
| Tom Swift | 15 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 46 | 37 | 83 | 23 | 5 | |
| Eric Mackenzie | 16 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 83 | 162 | 55 | 30 | |
| Josh Kennedy | 17 | 23 | 59 | 38 | 208 | 62 | 270 | 144 | 70 | |
| Bradd Dalziell | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | |
| Tim Houlihan | 19 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Rookie |
| Dean Cox | 20 | 25 | 20 | 17 | 270 | 176 | 446 | 137 | 43 | |
| Quinten Lynch | 21 | 24 | 28 | 20 | 262 | 125 | 387 | 157 | 33 | |
| Ryan Neates | 22 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Darren Glass | 23 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 122 | 144 | 266 | 97 | 48 | 200th AFL game |
| Matt Rosa | 24 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 233 | 168 | 401 | 94 | 56 | |
| Shannon Hurn | 25 | 25 | 5 | 3 | 343 | 109 | 452 | 114 | 44 | |
| Sam Butler | 26 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 160 | 68 | 228 | 80 | 51 | |
| Jack Darling | 27 | 23 | 24 | 11 | 165 | 119 | 284 | 103 | 93 | AFL debut (round 1) |
| Ashley Smith | 28 | 18 | 4 | 4 | 164 | 97 | 261 | 81 | 33 | |
| Scott Lycett | 29 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 1 | AFL debut (round 19) |
| Blayne Wilson | 30 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Will Schofield | 31 | 23 | 2 | 4 | 154 | 109 | 263 | 91 | 47 | |
| Andrew Embley | 32 | 24 | 17 | 19 | 312 | 206 | 518 | 113 | 104 | |
| Jordan Jones | 33 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Jacob Brennan | 34 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Patrick McGinnity | 35 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 109 | 110 | 219 | 41 | 67 | |
| Callum Wilson | 36 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Adam Selwood | 37 | 25 | 3 | 4 | 245 | 185 | 430 | 102 | 57 | 150th AFL game |
| Brett Jones | 38 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Lewis Broome | 39 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Rookie |
| Anton Hamp | 40 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Rookie |
| Andrew Strijk | 41 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |
| Jeremy McGovern | 42 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Rookie |
| Ashton Hams | 43 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25 | 24 | 49 | 13 | 7 | |
| Gerrick Weedon | 44 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | AFL debut (round 7) |
| Jarrad Oakley-Nicholls | 45 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Rookie |
| Lewis Stevenson | 47 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Season summary
The first round of the
Patersons Stadium on 13 February.[7] The Eagles won both of their games, progressing through to the NAB Cup quarter-finals where they defeated Gold Coast by 37 points to progress to a semi-final against Collingwood
; however they lost their semi-final by 24 points and were eliminated from the NAB Cup.
After finishing with the
Josh Kennedy kicking 10 goals, the season-high for the competition.[12] West Coast lost to Collingwood in round 10 by 52 points before going on a five-match winning streak, their best since 2007. The team's round 16 win over Geelong was their first over the Cats since 2006.[13]
Results
| Round | Date | Result | Score | Opponent | Score | Ground | Attendance | Ladder | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | B | T | G | B | T | ||||||||
| 1 | Sunday 27 March | Won | 13 | 14 | 92 | North Melbourne | 13 | 10 | 88 | Patersons Stadium | H | 35,878 | 5th |
| 2 | Saturday 2 April | Won | 16 | 20 | 116 | Port Adelaide | 15 | 8 | 98 | AAMI Stadium | A | 23,214 | 3rd |
| 3 | Saturday 9 April | Lost | 13 | 10 | 88 | Sydney | 15 | 11 | 101 | Patersons Stadium | H | 37,288 | 9th |
| 4 | Saturday 16 April | Lost | 9 | 11 | 65 | Hawthorn | 10 | 12 | 72 | Aurora Stadium | A | 15,063 | 10th |
| 5 | Bye | 10th | |||||||||||
| 6 | Thursday 28 April | Won | 15 | 16 | 106 | Melbourne | 6 | 16 | 52 | Patersons Stadium | H | 36,298 | 7th |
| 7 | Sunday 8 May | Lost | 12 | 18 | 90 | Essendon | 16 | 10 | 106 | Etihad Stadium | A | 33,631 | 10th |
| 8 | Sunday 15 May | Won | 14 | 12 | 96 | Fremantle | 9 | 9 | 63 | Patersons Stadium | H | 40,567 | 7th |
| 9 | Sunday 22 May | Won | 26 | 19 | 175 | Western Bulldogs | 8 | 4 | 52 | Patersons Stadium | H | 37,308 | 6th |
| 10 | Sunday 29 May | Lost | 7 | 11 | 53 | Collingwood | 16 | 9 | 105 | Melbourne Cricket Ground | A | 52,560 | 7th |
| 11 | Saturday 4 June | Won | 13 | 7 | 85 | Gold Coast | 10 | 7 | 67 | Patersons Stadium | H | 36,815 | 6th |
| 12 | Saturday 11 June | Won | 15 | 16 | 106 | Adelaide | 10 | 7 | 67 | AAMI Stadium | A | 31,412 | 6th |
| 13 | Sunday 19 June | Won | 15 | 20 | 110 | Port Adelaide | 13 | 10 | 88 | Patersons Stadium | H | 35,059 | 5th |
| 14 | Sunday 26 June | Won | 15 | 13 | 103 | Carlton | 10 | 7 | 67 | Etihad Stadium | A | 38,241 | 5th |
| 15 | Bye | 6th | |||||||||||
| 16 | Friday 8 July | Won | 14 | 12 | 96 | Geelong | 13 | 10 | 88 | Patersons Stadium | H | 40,164 | 5th |
| 17 | Saturday 16 July | Lost | 9 | 7 | 61 | St Kilda | 13 | 4 | 82 | Etihad Stadium | A | 31,416 | 5th |
| 18 | Sunday 24 July | Won | 8 | 17 | 65 | Fremantle | 9 | 10 | 64 | Patersons Stadium | A | 41,055 | 5th |
| 19 | Saturday 30 July | Won | 15 | 13 | 103 | Western Bulldogs | 15 | 5 | 95 | Etihad Stadium | A | 20,883 | 5th |
| 20 | Sunday 7 August | Won | 22 | 15 | 147 | Richmond | 14 | 6 | 90 | Patersons Stadium | H | 38,106 | 5th |
| 21 | Sunday 14 August | Won | 16 | 14 | 110 | Melbourne | 9 | 8 | 62 | Etihad Stadium | A | 15,740 | 5th |
| 22 | Saturday 20 August | Won | 20 | 14 | 134 | Essendon | 11 | 11 | 77 | Patersons Stadium | H | 38,253 | 4th |
| 23 | Saturday 27 August | Won | 13 | 11 | 89 | Brisbane Lions | 11 | 15 | 81 | The Gabba | A | 13,500 | 4th |
| 24 | Saturday 3 September | Won | 22 | 13 | 145 | Adelaide | 7 | 8 | 50 | Patersons Stadium | H | 36,062 | 4th |
| QF | Saturday 10 September | Lost | 9 | 8 | 62 | Collingwood | 12 | 10 | 82 | Melbourne Cricket Ground | F | 67,502 | — |
| SF | Saturday 17 September | Won | 15 | 11 | 101 | Carlton | 15 | 8 | 98 | Patersons Stadium | F | 42,803 | |
| PF | Saturday 24 September | Lost | 10 | 9 | 69 | Geelong | 17 | 15 | 117 | Melbourne Cricket Ground | F | 59,455 | |
| H | Home game |
|---|---|
| A | Away game |
| QF | Qualifying final |
| SF | Semi-final |
| PF | Preliminary final |
Ladder
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | PF | PA | PP | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Collingwood | 22 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 2592 | 1546 | 167.7 | 80 | Finals series |
| 2 | Geelong (P) | 22 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 2548 | 1619 | 157.4 | 76 | |
| 3 | Hawthorn | 22 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 2355 | 1634 | 144.1 | 72 | |
| 4 | West Coast | 22 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 2235 | 1715 | 130.3 | 68 | |
| 5 | Carlton | 22 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 2225 | 1700 | 130.9 | 58 | |
| 6 | St Kilda | 22 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 1891 | 1677 | 112.8 | 50 | |
| 7 | Sydney | 22 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 1897 | 1735 | 109.3 | 50 | |
| 8 | Essendon | 22 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 2217 | 2217 | 100.0 | 46 | |
| 9 | North Melbourne | 22 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 2106 | 2082 | 101.2 | 40 | |
| 10 | Western Bulldogs | 22 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 2060 | 2155 | 95.6 | 36 | |
| 11 | Fremantle | 22 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 1791 | 2155 | 83.1 | 36 | |
| 12 | Richmond | 22 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 2069 | 2396 | 86.4 | 34 | |
| 13 | Melbourne | 22 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 1974 | 2315 | 85.3 | 34 | |
| 14 | Adelaide | 22 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 1742 | 2193 | 79.4 | 28 | |
| 15 | Brisbane Lions | 22 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 1814 | 2240 | 81.0 | 16 | |
| 16 | Port Adelaide | 22 | 3 | 19 | 0 | 1718 | 2663 | 64.5 | 12 | |
| 17 | Gold Coast | 22 | 3 | 19 | 0 | 1534 | 2726 | 56.3 | 12 |
Source: AFL ladder
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers
Tribunal cases
Seven West Coast Eagles were cited by the Match Review Panel for eight separate offences during the 2011 season:[15] Quinten Lynch was the only player suspended, receiving a one-match suspension after the round 14 game against Carlton for forceful front-on contact with Marc Murphy:
| Player | Round | Charge category | Subject of offence (club) | Result | Verdict | Points[b] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Callum Wilson | PS | Striking | Nathan Krakouer (Gold Coast) | Guilty (early plea) | Reprimand | 93.75 |
| Luke Shuey | PS | Rough conduct | Tom Hunter (Collingwood) | Guilty (early plea) | Reprimand | 93.75 |
| Scott Selwood | 11 | Striking | Gary Ablett (Gold Coast )
|
Guilty (early plea) | Reprimand | 93.75 |
| Jack Darling | 12 | Negligent contact with an umpire | Brett Rosebury (umpire) | Guilty (early plea) | Fine ($900) | 0 |
| Quinten Lynch | 14 | Forceful front-on contact | Marc Murphy (Carlton) | Guilty | Suspension (one match) | 126.56 |
| Quinten Lynch | 14 | Striking | Marc Murphy (Carlton) | Guilty (early plea) | Reprimand | 45.00 |
| Will Schofield | 14 | Tripping | Marc Murphy (Carlton) | Guilty (early plea) | Reprimand | 93.75 |
| Nic Naitanui | 16 | Forceful front-on contact | Taylor Hunt (Geelong) | Guilty (early plea) | Reprimand | 93.75 |
Awards
League awards
- John Worsfold was named Coach of the Year at the 2011 AFL Coaches' Association Awards.[16]
- Josh Kennedy and Matt Priddis were also named in the initial squad of 40 players, but were not selected in the final team.[17]
- Nic Naitanui was nominated as a finalist for the 2011 AFL Mark of the Year.[18]
- Luke Shuey (round two), Jack Darling (round six) and Andrew Gaff (round 19) were nominated for the 2011 AFL Rising Star award, with Shuey finishing second, Darling fifth and Gaff seventh overall.[19]
- Matt Priddis polled the most club votes in the 2011 Brownlow Medal, receiving 19 votes to finish equal ninth.[20]
Club awards
The 2011 West Coast Eagles Club Champion Awards were held on Friday, 7 October 2011, at
Josh Kennedy was leading goal-kicker, kicking 59 goals for the year. Mark LeCras (47 goals) and Mark Nicoski (41 goals) was next.[21] Adam Selwood, Richard Godfrey and Glenn Stewart were inducted as life members of the club. The voting for the Club Champion Award went as follows:[22]
| Position | Name | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Darren Glass | 398[a] |
| 2 | Matt Priddis | 398[a] |
| 3 | Dean Cox | 397 |
| 4 | Shannon Hurn | 374 |
| 5 | Luke Shuey | 359 |
| 6 | Adam Selwood | 342 |
| 7 | Nic Naitanui | 338 |
| 8 | Andrew Embley | 333[b] |
| 9 | Mark Nicoski | 333[b] |
| 10 | Scott Selwood | 332 |
- a Glass and Priddis finished equal first on votes, but Glass was awarded Club Champion on countback, having played less games.
- b Embley and Nicoski both polled the same number of votes, but Embley finished higher, having played less games.
Notes
b "Points" refers to carry-over points accrued following the sanction. For example, 154.69 points draw a one-match suspension, with 54.69 carry-over points (for every 100 points, a one-match suspension is given).
References
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- ^ "Spangher wants out of Eagles - AFL.com.au". Archived from the original on 3 September 2010. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
- ^ "AFL Team Lists – New and Delisted AFL players for season 2011 | Sports and Racing.com.au". www.sportsandracing.com.au. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011.
- ^ "Ashley Hansen delisted by West Coast | Herald Sun". Archived from the original on 13 March 2011.
- ^ "Rookie Draft Wrap | AFL Blog - ContestedFooty". www.contestedfooty.com. Archived from the original on 12 December 2010.
- ^ "2011 Player Stats". AFL Tables. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ 2011 NAB Cup fixtures
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- ^ The also-rans - afl.com.au. Written by Leigh Matthews. Published 22 March 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
- ^ AFL 2011: odds for the teams to win title - The Roar. Written by Andrew Leonard. Published 18 March 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
- ^ Just How Good Are The Eagles? - Thebigtip. Written by Matt Marsden. Published 8 July 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
- ^ West Coast slaughters [sic] woeful Bulldogs by a staggering 123 points Archived 25 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine - PerthNow. Written by Michael Washbourne. Published 22 May 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
- ^ Coghlan, Scott (9 July 2011). "West Coast Eagles topple falling Geelong". The Australian. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
- ^ "2011 Season Scores and Results". AFL Tables. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
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