The
1988 VFL season
The 1988 VFL season was the 92nd season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition and administrative body in Victoria, and by reason of it featuring clubs from New South Wales, Queensl ...
was the
West Coast Eagles
The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known as the Victorian Football ...
' second season in the
Victorian Football League
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(VFL).
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was appointed coach after
Ron Alexander
Ronald James Alexander (born 10 December 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and for the East Perth Football Club and East Fremantle Football Club in the ...
was sacked and
Ross Glendinning
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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:
*
Clinton Browning (
East Fremantle
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Etymology
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)
*
Kevin Caton
Kevin Bernard Caton (born 10 May 1965) is a retired Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL/AFL for the West Coast Eagles, Fitzroy and Brisbane Bears
The Brisbane Football Club, nicknamed the Bears, was a professional Australia ...
(
Swan Districts
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)
*
Joe Cormack
Joe Cormack (born 30 August 1966) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles and Fitzroy in the Victorian/Australia Football League (VFL/AFL).
West Coast recruited Cormack from Swan Districts, where he had pl ...
(
Swan Districts
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)
*
Shane Ellis
Shane Ellis (born 27 September 1960) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the West Coast Eagles in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and East Fremantle in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).
Ellis won East Fremantl ...
(
East Fremantle
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*
Richard Geary (
South Fremantle)
*
Peter Higgins (
Claremont)
*
Brent Hutton (
Swan Districts
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)
*
Don Langsford
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Langsford was initially recruited from the S ...
(
Swan Districts
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)
*
Guy McKenna
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(
Claremont)
*
Murray Rance
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He was a key position player and started his career at ...
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*
Troy Ugle
Troy Ugle (born 18 April 1968) is a former Australian rules footballer.
Playing career
Ugle began his senior football career with Carey Park in the South West Football League.
In 1986 he joined Swan Districts in the West Australian Football ...
(
Swan Districts
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)
*
Chris Waterman
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(
East Fremantle
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Etymology
As in other languages, the word is formed from the fa ...
)
Squad
Pre-season
Panasonic Cup
West Coast defeated by 87 points in front of a crowd of 12,587 at the
WACA Ground
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The WACA has been referred to as Wester ...
in the first round of the competition, the first
night-series/pre-season match to be played in
Western Australia
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since
1981
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, before losing to by 36 points in the second round.
Home team's score listed in bold:
Regular season
Home team's score listed in bold:
Source
AFLTables
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Ladder
References
External links
West Coast Eagles Official SiteOfficial Site of the Australian Football League
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West Coast Eagles
The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known as the Victorian Football ...
West Coast Eagles seasons