\n The Eagles have announced their 26-player squad ahead of Sunday’s clash with the Bombers at Optus Stadium\n <\/p>\n
\n By westcoasteagles.com.au\n <\/p>\n
West Coast has added an emerging trio to its extended squad for Sunday\u2019s marquee WA Day eve clash against Essendon at Optus Stadium.<\/p>\n
No.4 draft pick Cooper Duff-Tytler and midfield duo Tom Gross and Clay Hall have been added to the 23 that pushed Collingwood in a 10-point loss at the MCG.<\/p>\n
Duff-Tytler impressed for the WAFL Eagles last round, kicking two goals from 15 disposals and winning 19 hit-outs, after being managed the previous week.<\/p>\n
Gross picked up 22 touches with seven inside 50s, laid four tackles and booted two goals, continuing his strong WAFL form.<\/p>\n
Gross and Hall \u2013 who had 13 disposals and a goal \u2013 are pushing for their first AFL appearances this season.<\/p>\n
Prized recruit Brandon Starcevich will play another match in the WAFL after returning on managed minutes in his first game for the 2026 season last round against East Fremantle.<\/p>\n
The Eagles will trim their 26-man squad to a final 23 on Friday at 3pm AWST.<\/p>\n
West Coast will don the historic black and gold colours against Essendon, celebrating all things WA and bringing fans together in State pride.<\/p>\n
The match starts at 5.20pm on Sunday and will be broadcast live nationally on the Seven Network (7mate in WA) and 7-plus, as well as Fox Footy and Kayo (check broadcast guide).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Eagles have announced their 26-player squad ahead of Sunday’s clash with the Bombers at Optus Stadium By…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-700463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700463","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=700463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}