Round 10, 2024
West Coast vs Melbourne
Sunday 19 May
Venue: Perth Stadium
Attendance: 43,408
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Final | |
| West Coast | 4.3 | 7.8 | 12.8 | 16.9.105 |
| Melbourne | 2.1 | 6.1 | 9.8 | 10.10.70 |
West Coast win by 35 points
Goalkickers: Bayley Fritsch 3, Ben Brown 1, Kade Chandler 1, Shane McAdam 1, Alex Neal-Bullen 1, Christian Petracca 1, Kysaiah Pickett 1, Caleb Windsor 1
Milestones:
First MFC game
Shane McAdam
50 games
Jake Bowey
After a one point loss the previous week, Melbourne (playing under the indigenous name Narrm) travelled to Perth expected to beat the improving Eagles. They put in a listless performance, not helped by losing Jake Lever to concussion when he was kicked in the head during West Coast’s second goal.
Without Lever, the visitors uncharacteristically struggled to contain the opposition forward line, and other than brief comebacks in the second and third quarter they never got close enough to seriously challenge and the Eagles ran out easy winners.
Best were Neal-Bullen, Pickett, and Oliver.
Taj Woewodin replaced Lever at quarter time. Harrison Petty was also assessed for concussion but cleared to return, and Jake Bowey injured his foot.
Links
Demonblog match review