The poor performance of both Fremantle and West Coast so far this year indicate that West Australian football is in major trouble.
I’ve already expanded at length about the Dockers in another article, so there’s no need for me to say more on Freo.
But West Coast is in the most serious trouble since coming into the AFL in 1987.
You’d never have thought that eighteen months after winning the flag against Sydney, they’re on the bottom end of the ladder.
Remember, too, there are thirteen players from the 2006 premiership on the Eagles list, and most of them played yesterday against Richmond – and put in a shocker.
Not too long ago, there were calls for a review of Victorian football after most of the Victorian-based clubs failed to make the eight.
Now it looks like the same could be said for West Australian football as well.
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