The Latest Breaking News from West Coast Eagles

In 2021, the coach of the Perth-based West Coast Eagles Australian rules football team said recruits who attended public schools and came from single-parent families are too costly to manage off-field and the club might be better off concentrating on private school boys from stable families.

West Coast veteran Elliot Yeo has been in hot form this season, and clubs in the premiership window are set to offer the free agent some tempting deals.

Two women have died — Debbie Burdon and Kylie Bazzo, the mother of West Coast Eagles youngster Rhett Bazzo — after a boat they were on crashed into a channel marker in an estuary south of Perth.

WA Aboriginal Affairs Minister Tony Buti says all AFL clubs should conduct internal reviews into their treatment of Indigenous players in the wake of the allegations levelled at the Hawthorn Football Club.

When the Eagles traded Chris Judd for Josh Kennedy in 2007, only their wildest dreams could have conjured the career the superstar forward would have, writes Greig Johnston.

The West Coast Eagles' leading goalkicker Josh Kennedy will play his last AFL game against Adelaide this Sunday.

All but three of Cosmo Newberry's 100 or so residents barrack for the one AFL team, leading to some good-natured rivalry, particularly given the Eagles' dismal results this season.

West Coast great Peter Matera has suffered a heart attack in Victoria and is now recovering in hospital.

Eagles chairman Russell Gibbs says it would not be fair to hold coach Adam Simpson to a strict time line for turning the side's fortunes around, but some improvement is expected over the next year.