1999 season

1999

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Position

6th

H&A record

12-10 (5th)

Finals

Lost Semi Final

Captain

Guy McKenna

Coach

Mick Malthouse

Best & Fairest

Guy McKenna

Most goals

Scott Cummings (95)

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West Coast limped into the 1999 season without a host of their premiership stars - Chris Waterman announced his retirement before the start of the season and Brett Heady lasted just one match, following on from captain John Worsfold and Tony Evans calling it quits after 1998. Added to that was the injury-enforced absences of Chris Lewis and Chris Mainwaring, the latter managing just five games which was five more than Lewis.

Despite the loss of personnel the Eagles stormed out of the gates, winning their first six games and 11 of the first 14 to sit on top of the ladder with a couple of months to go before finals. They then won just one more match during a horror run that saw them lose to Brisbane by a record 100 points and, even more disturbingly, lose a Derby for the first time ever. As they limped into the finals in fifth spot, long-time coach Mick Malthouse announced that he would not re-sign for 2000 and would be returning to Victoria with his family. West Coast then found some form in the first week of the finals to beat the Bulldogs, but the vagaries of the final 8 system saw them drawn to play their semi-final against Carlton in Melbourne despite the Blues having finished below the Eagles and having been soundly beaten in their qualifying final. Carlton won comfortably and brought down the curtain on Malthouse's long and successful stint as West Coast coach.

Decorated defender Guy McKenna took over the captaincy from Worsfold and led from the front, winning the Club Champion award in a countback from young midfielder Michael Braun. Another young mid, Ben Cousins finished just a vote back from McKenna and Braun in third and also made the All-Australian side for the second straight year. Burly sharpshooter Scott Cummings, who had arrived from Port Adelaide in a trade the previous October, kicked 95 goals to become the first Eagle to win the Coleman Medal, although he was controversially left out of the AA-side.

Honour board

Coach: Mick Malthouse

Captain: Guy McKenna

Deputies: Glen Jakovich, Mitchell White

Club Champion: Guy McKenna

Rookie of the Year: Laurie Bellotti

Best Clubman: Dean Kemp

Leading Goalscorer: Scott Cummings (95)

All-Australians: Ben Cousins

Rising Star nominees: Rowan Jones (round 8), Andrew Williams (round 12)

Milestones: 250 games: Guy McKenna (round 15)

200 games: Dean Kemp (round 7), Chris Mainwaring (round 16), Peter Matera (semi-final))

100 games: Jason Ball (round 17)

Squad

Offseason player movements

	Senior list
4	David Antonowicz	29	Andrew Donnelly	27	Glen Jakovich	5	Chad Morrison	44	David Wirrpanda
26	Jason Ball	40	Joel Duckworth*	31	Rowan Jones	21	Michael O'Brien*	13	Josh Wooden
6	Drew Banfield	32	Andrew Embley	2	Dean Kemp	36	Phil Read
45	Laurie Bellotti	23	Brendon Fewster	28	Chris Lewis	42	Chad Rintoul*
34	Scott Bennett*	41	Chad Fletcher	3	Chris Mainwaring	22	Nick Stone
10	Michael Braun	19	Michael Gardiner	30	Peter Matera	16	Paul Symmons
15	Callum Chambers	7	Fraser Gehrig	33	Phil Matera	50	Ryan Turnbull
9	Ben Cousins	1	Brett Heady	11	Ashley McIntosh	39	Chris Waterman
35	Jaxon Crabb	20	Brandon Hill*	17	Guy McKenna	12	Mitchell White
14	Scott Cummings*	25	Todd Holmes	8	Daniel Metropolis	37	Andrew Williams
	Rookie list
43	Simon Duckworth*	46	Mark Pearson*	47	Andrew Taylor*	38	Heath Younie

(* indicates new addition to playing list)

Player reviews

#	Player	Games	Goals
1	Heady	1	0
2	Kemp	22	6
3	Mainwaring	5	1
5	Morrison	23	13
6	Banfield	24	6
7	Gehrig	11	19
8	Metropolis	24	12
9	Cousins	22	14
10	Braun	24	4
11	McIntosh	22	0
12	White	24	29
13	Wooden	6	1
14	Cummings	24	95
16	Symmons	9	0
17	McKenna	23	0
19	Gardiner	17	4
22	Stone	2	0
23	Fewster	13	8
25	Holmes	3	0
26	Ball	16	4
27	Jakovich	23	4
29	Donnelly	11	6
30	Pe.Matera	16	8
31	Jones	16	7
32	Embley	9	3
33	Ph.Matera	24	51
35	Crabb	5	0
36	Read	23	6
37	Williams	22	11
41	Fletcher	1	0
42	Rintoul	24	6
44	Wirrpanda	24	4
45	Bellotti	15	1

Results

Rd	Opponent	Venue	Res	Score	Posn
1	Fremantle	Subiaco	W	102-98	8th
2	Brisbane	Subiaco	W	83-73	4th
3	Collingwood	Victoria Park	W	111-75	3rd
4	Essendon	Subiaco	W	97-23	1st
5	Hawthorn	Waverley	W	94-68	1st
6	Western Bulldogs	Subiaco	W	124-52	1st
7	St Kilda	Waverley	L	48-68	1st
8	Adelaide	Subiaco	W	126-72	1st
9	Sydney	SCG	W	94-81	1st
10	Carlton	Subiaco	L	84-101	1st
11	North Melbourne	SCG	L	64-84	1st
12	Port Adelaide	Subiaco	W	137-72	1st
13	Geelong	Kardinia Park	W	112-68	1st
14	Melbourne	Subiaco	W	112-77	1st
15	Richmond	MCG	L	75-104	1st
16	Fremantle	Subiaco	L	72-119	3rd
17	Brisbane	Gabba	L	66-166	5th
18	Collingwood	WACA	W	108-72	4th
19	Essendon	MCG	L	93-153	5th
20	Hawthorn	WACA	L	82-84	5th
21	Western Bulldogs	Princes Park	L	104-106	5th
22	St Kilda	WACA	L	80-121	5th
QF	Western Bulldogs	MCG	W	65-60
SF	Carlton	MCG	L	70-124

Club Champion leaderboard

#	Player		Votes		Games
1st	McKenna		36		23
2nd	Braun		36		24
3rd	Cousins		35		22
4th	Banfield		35		24
5th	Wirrpanda		34		24
6th	Ph.Matera		33		24
7th	Jakovich		32		23
8th (tie)	Cummings		32		24
8th (tie)	White		32		24
10th	Metropolis		31		24

Stats leaders

Stats leaders for the 1999 season.

#	Goals		Disposals		Disp/game		Marks
1st	Cummings	95 .	Cousins	515 .	Cousins	23.41 .	White	131
2nd	Ph.Matera	51	Braun	454	Jakovich	18.96	Cummings	123
3rd	White	29	Jakovich	436	Braun	18.92	McKenna	113
4th	Gehrig	19	Banfield	432	Banfield	18.00	Metropolis	107
5th	Cousins	14	Wirrpanda	404	Pe.Matera	18.00	Braun	104
6th	Morrison	13	McKenna	391	McKenna	17.00	Wirrpanda	91
7th	Metropolis	12	White	385	Wirrpanda	16.83	Morrison	89
8th	Williams	11	Morrison	357	Kemp	16.14	McIntosh	88
9th	Fewster	8	Kemp	355	White	16.04	Williams	88
10th	Pe.Matera	8	Read	354	Morrison	15.52	Jakovich	85
#	Kicks		Handballs		Clearances		Tackles
1st	Cousins	310 .	Cousins	205 .	Cousins	94 .	Kemp	50
2nd	Jakovich	307	McKenna	175	Banfield	92	McKenna	41
3rd	Braun	287	Banfield	173	Braun	63	Pe.Matera	37
4th	Wirrpanda	278	Braun	167	Kemp	50	Ph.Matera	37
5th	Banfield	259	White	144	Read	49	Braun	30
6th	White	241	Morrison	142	Ball	48	Read	29
7th	Read	238	Rintoul	133	Jakovich	48	Metropolis	29
8th	Kemp	235	Jakovich	129	Pe.Matera	40	Wirrpanda	27
9th	McKenna	216	Wirrpanda	126	Rintoul	38	Williams	26
10th	Rintoul	216	Kemp	120	Gardiner/Morrison	31	Cousins	25