WEST AUSTRALIANA AFL Australian Rules Football –

• xxxiii, 188 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm #240326

• The West Coast Eagles came up with a winning formula and shocked everyone except the most faithful Eagles supporters. This book is a celebration of their brilliant premiership and of three of life’s most important ingredients: friends, family and flags.

  • West Coast Eagles
  • Australian Football League
  • Australian football — Western Australia
  • Beaten by Greater Western Sydney in the previous season‘s semi-finals,^[11] West Coast recorded its best season in three years, with a 16–6 win–loss record, to finish second on the ladder. The club hosted third-placed Collingwood in the second qualifying final at Perth Stadium and overcame the Magpies by sixteen points to advance to a preliminary final.^[12] There, the Eagles hosted Melbourne and won comfortably by 66 points to advance to the grand final for the first time since losing the 2015 AFL Grand Final to Hawthorn.^[13]

    Collingwood had missed the finals for the past four years and finished the 2017 season in thirteenth position, so was not considered a credible premiership chance at the start of the year. Despite this, the club produced its best season since 2011, finishing third. Collingwood faced the West Coast Eagles in Perth in its qualifying final and had led at various stages of the match before being overrun in the last quarter to lose by sixteen points. They rebounded to defeat Greater Western Sydney in the second semi-final by ten points, then had an upset win against reigning premiers Richmond by 39 points in the preliminary final to advance to the grand final.^[14]