{"id":882128,"date":"2026-09-06T13:24:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T13:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882128\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T13:24:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T13:24:39","slug":"west-coast-eagles-coach-daisy-pearce-confident-side-has-not-regressed-despite-0-4-start-to-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882128\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast Eagles coach Daisy Pearce confident side has not regressed despite 0-4 start to season"},"content":{"rendered":"

West Coast coach Daisy Pearce is adamant her side have not regressed this season, but concedes the Eagles have experienced difficulties in the process of adding new layers to their game.<\/p>\n

On the back of the first AFLW finals appearance in the club\u2019s history last year, the Eagles \u2014 who have adopted the name Waalitj Marawar for the competition\u2019s Indigenous Round \u2014 are without a victory in their first four games of their 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n

Their winless start to the season rolled on with a 37-point loss to second-placed Naarm (Melbourne) at Mineral Resources Park on Sunday, leaving them already eight premiership points adrift of a group of teams down to 13th with 2-2 win-loss records.<\/p>\n

While Pearce remained bullish her side is capable of breaking back into the top eight, she said they may have unintentionally taken a step backwards in their first month in the hope of improving further.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first couple of weeks, we were off with our defensive system,\u201d Pearce said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf anything, it\u2019s probably a good little lesson for us, that while you try to add parts to your game, you\u2019ve still got to water your core and make sure that part of the garden keeps growing as well.<\/p>\n

\"WestCamera IconWest Coast have a 0-4 win-loss record. Credit: Daniel Carson\/AFL Photos<\/p>\n

\u201cWe came out of last season wanting to improve, so went after a few things \u2014 stoppage being one of them, which we have improved in, but it\u2019s probably been at the expense of our defence.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo the credit of the players, I feel like in the last two weeks, we\u2019ve got that back and working, but we\u2019ve had some strong opposition in the last two games.\u201d<\/p>\n

Breaking into the top eight last year has meant West Coast have been challenged with a tougher fixture this season, which will continue when they host traditional powerhouse Brisbane on Saturday.<\/p>\n

But Pearce said she was more focused on how her own side was faring than the identity of the teams their draw pitted them against.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou play who you play. We saw in the first two rounds, (the) Giants and Gold Coast played some quality footy, and have improved,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t get too bogged down in studying the draw. We just want to get better every week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe competition\u2019s laying down a challenge, because it\u2019s improving, and it improves year on year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Coast coach Daisy Pearce is adamant her side have not regressed this season, but concedes the Eagles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,25912,64,63,55,639,588,85,7067],"class_list":["post-882128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-aflw","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-west-coast-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882128","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=882128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}