\u201c(Sunday\u2019s performance) gives everyone confidence in the pre-season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had a really good pre-season, we\u2019ve had most of the guys out on the track, but there\u2019s a number of clubs that will be saying the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
West Coast, who were already without injured senior players Liam Duggan, Jack Graham, Tim Kelly, Brandon Starcevich and Reuben Ginbey, lost key defender Harry Edwards to concussion after a first-half knock.<\/p>\n
Jacob Newton (two goals) finished the game early with precautionary ice on his left ankle and Harley Reid (22 disposals) appeared briefly troubled by a leg issue.<\/p>\n
The Eagles turned to their youngsters for inspiration, with Josh Lindsay (22 disposals, one goal), Willem Duursma (16 touches) and Cooper Duff-Tytler (one goal) among those who showed glimpses.<\/p>\n
No.1 draft pick Duursma was busy but made some bad errors by foot, spraying a set shot out of bounds and giving up a goal with a turnover deep in defence.<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old remains a likely inclusion for the Eagles\u2019 round-one clash with Gold Coast on March 15.<\/p>\n
Former Brisbane player Deven Robertson (28 disposals) and ex-Magpie Finlay Macrae also did well in their first official outings for West Coast, while Jake Waterman and Matt Owies kicked two goals each.<\/p>\n
Importantly, injury-prone star Elliot Yeo (nine disposals) got through another pre-season hit-out unscathed.<\/p>\n
Eagles coach Andrew McQualter was disappointed with the result, and conceded his players\u2019 skill level and ability to handle pressure weren\u2019t at the required standards, but also saw some positives.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll our young players showed some moments … there\u2019s some excitement there for sure,\u201d McQualter said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201c(Sunday\u2019s performance) gives everyone confidence in the pre-season. \u201cWe\u2019ve had a really good pre-season, we\u2019ve had most of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-512004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}