{"id":7830,"date":"2025-07-20T06:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/7830\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T06:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:54:11","slug":"west-coast-eagles-officially-at-rock-bottom-according-to-matthew-lloyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/7830\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast Eagles officially at ‘rock bottom’ according to Matthew Lloyd"},"content":{"rendered":"

West Coast<\/a> has officially hit “rock bottom” according to Matthew Lloyd<\/a>, after the club’s loss to Richmond<\/a> on Saturday night. <\/p>\n

The Eagles entered the home game favourites up against a Tiger outfit a few years behind them in the rebuilding process.<\/p>\n

Despite that, they were humiliated in Perth, going down by 49 points as Richmond put 105 points on them.<\/p>\n

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\"Harley<\/p>\n

Harley Reid and the Eagles make their way off the field.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The loss is a reality check for a West Coast team that has now effectively clinched this year’s wooden spoon.<\/p>\n

The Eagles have won just 11 of their 86 games, dating back to the start of 2022, and only won once this year.<\/p>\n

Former Richmond star Nathan Brown called out West Coast veteran midfielder Tim Kelly for his performance in the loss, showing a damning passage of play where he clearly refused to run defensively.<\/p>\n

“Where’s your standards? Where’s your leadership?” Brown told Nine’s Sunday Footy Show.<\/p>\n

“Tim Kelly wasn’t the only player that stood there and watched players run past, but if I’m the coach, I’m asking where are your standards?”<\/p>\n

West Coast coach Andrew McQualter believes the group is lacking confidence and down on energy, due to the depth of their struggles.<\/p>\n

“I think we’re seeing a group – they’re trying, they’re working hard, but they’re clearly in such a void of confidence,” McQualter said.<\/p>\n

“You look at that first quarter, it was a dominant quarter (for us), and we go down on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n

“I just think it’s hurting deep in some souls of our players.”<\/p>\n

\"West<\/p>\n

West Coast.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

This is something Lloyd understands from his own playing days.<\/p>\n

“I played one season where we won five games. It was the longest year of my life football wise,” Lloyd said.<\/p>\n

“I can only imagine one win and 17 losses, it’s just a nightmare. You just want the season to end. (McQualter’s) spot on, they have no confidence whatsoever.<\/p>\n

“They hit rock bottom yesterday, I’d say, after being belted by the Tigers.”<\/p>\n

West Coast will have to pull themselves off the canvas and prepare for round 20’s derby with crosstown rivals Fremantle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Coast has officially hit “rock bottom” according to Matthew Lloyd, after the club’s loss to Richmond on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-7830","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\/7830","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=7830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}