2010 West Coast Eagles season

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West Coast Eagles
2010 season
President Mark Barnaba
Coach John Worsfold
Captain(s) Darren Glass
Home ground Subiaco Oval
Pre-season competition Quarter-finals
AFL season 16th (last)
Finals series Did not compete
Best & Fairest Mark LeCras
Leading goalkicker Mark LeCras (63)
Highest home attendance40,886 vs. Fremantle, 2 May
Lowest home attendance26,976 vs. Adelaide, 10 July
Average home attendance34 931
  2009
2011  

The 2010 season was the West Coast Eagles' 24th season in the AFL. The Eagles finished 16th and last to record their first wooden spoon in the competition, just four years after their premiership season of 2006. West Coast played 22 games, including 12 at Subiaco Oval, winning just four and losing the remaining eighteen. [1]

Contents

Pre-season

Trades

West Coast was involved in one trade before the 2010 season - a three-way trade involving Brisbane Lions and Sydney. West Coast traded Brent Staker and draft picks 39 and 55 to Brisbane in exchange for Bradd Dalziell, and then traded Mark Seaby to Sydney in exchange for draft picks 22 and 118. Sydney then traded Amon Buchanan to Brisbane in exchange for pick 28.

Draft selections

7 - Brad Sheppard (East Fremantle)
22 - Gerrick Weedon (Claremont)
23 - Koby Stevens (Gippsland Power)
5 - Ryan Neates (Claremont)
11 - Lewis Broome (Claremont)
27 - Andrew Strijk (West Perth)
40 - Ashton Hams (South Fremantle)
53 - Jarrad Oakley-Nicholls (Richmond)

NAB Cup

Home team's score listed in bold.

RoundDateScoreOpponentOpponent's ScoreResultVenueAttendance
1Friday, 12 February 5:40pm1.16.12 (117) Essendon 0.12.10 (82)Won by 35 points Subiaco Oval 23 860
QFSaturday, 27 February 5:40pm2.8.14 (80) Port Adelaide 4.19.8 (158)Lost by 78 points Subiaco Oval 16 231

List

Squad

West Coast Eagles
Senior listRookie listCoaching staff

Head coach



Legend:
  • (c) Captain(s)
  • (vc) Vice-captain(s)


Leadership group

The leadership group was composed of the captain Darren Glass, Dean Cox, Shannon Hurn, Josh Kennedy, Matt Priddis, Adam Selwood and Beau Waters. During the games when Glass was injured, all of these players rotated the captaincy.

Results

Regular season results [2]
RoundDateResultScoreOpponentScoreGroundAttendanceLadder
GBTGBT
1 Saturday 27 MarchLost121082 Brisbane Lions 1618114 The Gabba A29,20113th
2 Saturday 3 AprilLost121486 Port Adelaide 131189 Subiaco Oval H37,01011th
3 Saturday 10 AprilLost131391 North Melbourne 1714116 Etihad Stadium A18,39414th
4 Friday 16 AprilWon1511101 Essendon 111278 Subiaco Oval H38,67612th
5 Saturday 24 AprilLost9963 Sydney 1713115 Sydney Cricket Ground A28,42213th
6 Sunday 2 MayLost101373 Fremantle 179111 Subiaco Oval H40,88614th
7 Saturday 8 MayWon1512102 Hawthorn 141094 Subiaco Oval H35,86413th
8 Saturday 15 MayWon101575 Melbourne 61046 Melbourne Cricket Ground A28,59213th
9 Sunday 23 MayLost8856 St Kilda 131391 Subiaco Oval H36,24414th
10 Sunday 30 MayLost111076 Carlton 1515105 Etihad Stadium A29,17514th
11 Saturday 5 JuneLost141498 Geelong 1814122 Subiaco Oval H33,78414th
12 Sunday 13 JuneLost111177 Richmond 1912126 Melbourne Cricket Ground A30,87014th
13 Sunday 20 JuneLost9559 Western Bulldogs 1717119 Subiaco Oval H34,28015th
14 Saturday 3 JulyLost71052 Collingwood 2015135 Etihad Stadium A38,78116th
15 Saturday 10 JulyLost141195 Adelaide 1715117 Subiaco Oval H26,97616th
16 Saturday 17 JulyWon2012132 Essendon 1416100 Etihad Stadium A26,99116th
17 Saturday 24 JulyLost111783 Carlton 1519109 Subiaco Oval H35,92516th
18 Sunday 1 AugustLost13785 Fremantle 2416160 Subiaco Oval A40,45116th
19 Saturday 7 AugustLost91165 Brisbane Lions 101070 Subiaco Oval H32,58716th
20 Saturday 14 AugustLost81260 Port Adelaide 81361 AAMI Stadium A14,11316th
21 Sunday 22 AugustLost141094 North Melbourne 1614110 Subiaco Oval H32,00716th
22 Saturday 28 AugustLost10868 Geelong 1616112 Skilled Stadium A24,09916th
Key
HHome game
AAway game

Ladder

2010 AFL ladder
PosTeamPldWLDPFPAPPPts
1 Collingwood (P)22174123491658141.770 Finals series
2 Geelong 22175025181702147.968
3 St Kilda 22156119351591121.662
4 Western Bulldogs 22148021741734125.456
5 Sydney 22139020171863108.352
6 Fremantle 22139021682087103.952
7 Hawthorn 22129120441847110.750
8 Carlton 221111021431983108.144
9 North Melbourne 22111101930220887.444
10 Port Adelaide 22101201749212382.440
11 Adelaide 2291301763187094.336
12 Melbourne 2281311863197194.534
13 Brisbane Lions 2271501775215882.328
14 Essendon 2271501930240280.328
15 Richmond 2261601714234873.024
16 West Coast 2241801773230077.116
Source: AFL ladder
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Awards

League awards

Club awards

The 2010 West Coast Eagles Club Champion Awards were held on Saturday, 11 September at Crown Perth. Mark LeCras was named Club Champion, Mark Nicoski received the Best Clubman award and Nic Naitanui was awarded Rookie of the Year. Mark LeCras was also leading goal-kicker, kicking 63 goals for the year. Josh Kennedy was next, with 41 goals. [7] The voting for the Club Champion Award went as follows: [8]

2010 Club Champion
PositionNameVotes
1 Mark LeCras 294
2 Matt Priddis 286
3 Beau Waters 281
4 Dean Cox 271
5 Nic Naitanui 252
6 Josh Kennedy 251
7 Matt Rosa 247
8 Andrew Embley 246
9 Brad Ebert 241
10 Scott Selwood 227

Season records and milestones

Team records

Source: AFL Tables

Player records

Source: West Coast Eagles 2010 Statistics

Milestones

Debuts

References

  1. AFL Tables - West Coast All Games - By Season
  2. "2010 Season Scores and Results". AFL Tables. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  3. LeCras, Sandi named in All-Australian side - The West Australian
  4. "West Coast ruckman Nic Naitanui takes Round 4 Rising Star nomination - PerthNow". Archived from the original on 6 June 2012. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
  5. "West Coast Eagles Blog: 2010 All-Australian Team - Mark LeCras". Archived from the original on 3 October 2010. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
  6. ABC Sport - Leaderboard: Brownlow Medal 2010
  7. 2010 West Coast statistics - Official AFL website of the West Coast Eagles
  8. LeCras' wins Eagles' club champion award - The West Australian