AFL top 100: West Coast’s games and goals
Despite the fact that South Melbourne had relocated to Sydney five years before the West Coast Eagles joined the AFL in 1987, the Eagles can lay claim to being one of the first two purpose-built clubs to take on the might of the Victorians in 1987. The other club, the Brisbane Bears, survived for ten years before disappearing in a merger maze and reappearing as the Brisbane Lions in 1997 and it is no coincidence that the Eagles boast one-third of all premierships won by the (now eight) non-Victorian...