Blog log from R17 of 2025: West Coast vs Western Sydney

Jones rams through the first goal from CHF after Callaghan spoils Harley Reid at the opening bounce to get all the Eagles off side on the counter. (Q1 0:28)
Brown curls in the next goal for the Giants after Kelly spoils Hutchinson on the HFF to force a front-half turnover. (Q1 4:08)
Greene misses a long set shot from the HFF. (Q1 7:47)
Greene snaps his first goal from the pocket 25m out. (Q1 11:07)
O’Halloran burns Jones with a snap from half forward that hits the post. (Q1 14:19)
Bedford bounces through his first goal from a pack at half forward. (Q1 15:03)
Stringer misses a long set shot. (Q1 17:58)
Cripps finally gets the Eagles on the board with a running snap from the pocket. (Q1 19:54)
Shanahan marks a Flynn centre clearance shank 40m out on a slight angle but doesn’t score. (Q2 0:39)
Stringer marks and goals at the hotspot, bit of a melee afterwards. (Q2 3:54)
Himmelberg is rightly penalised for deliberate rushing under no pressure, but Tim Kelly spurns the charity goal. (Q2 7:25)
Greene roves and misses from a stoppage in the pocket. (Q2 12:13)
Riccardi bounces a behind from long range after another turnover by the Eagles. (Q2 15:27)
Bailey J. Williams scrubs a long bomb from CHF on the rebound for another hardfought goal for West Coast, who are outclassed today but working honestly. (Q2 16:15)
Greene steers through his second goal from a set shot from 35m on the flank. (Q2 19:30)
Callaghan is a flat track bully like his mentor Josh Kelly, and he completes a classic tsunami play with a long snap goal off the back of a half back rebound started by Himmelberg. (Q2 21:25)
Aleer bumps Hutchinson off a bounce handball by Brockman near the hotspot, ump pays a free for high contact, Aleer mystified but it did look rough. Hutchinson calls in the goal. (Q2 24:16)
Greene runs on to a set play Flynn tap wide of a stoppage at the hotspot but misses off the left. (Q3 1:29)
Idun roves at half back but Shanahan roars up from the square from his blind spot to catch him HTB 40m out in front, he chips through the goal. (Q3 6:29)
Stringer marks over McCarthy and gives a Joe the Goose special to Jones for his second goal on the end of yet another tsunami move from half back by GWS. (Q3 9:24)
Stringer baulks past Harry Edwards and kicks from the pocket to the square for Cadman to mark and goal. (Q3 11:14)
Another peach of a flat track goal to Josh Kelly from long range, classic Giants. (Q3 13:24)
Jones misses a mid-range snap after a turnover. (Q3 16:02)
Graham roves a ball up 15m out and snaps over his left shoulder for a goal under a tackle. (Q3 18:15)
Baker is pinged for dissent to bring Josh Kelly from the HFF to the square for an easy goal. (Q3 24:45)
Greene marks at the hotspot without contact on a slow play from a free on Reid for holding Green in the centre, he converts. (Q3 26:55)
Rowston snaps to the right from 40m on a slight angle. (Q3 28:13)
Hough marks 40m out wide on the flank but shoots across the face to the right. (Q3 29:39)
Reid marks a nice pass by Brockman from wing to 30m on the flank but he sprays it OOTF across the face to the left. (Q3 30:55)
Hutchinson blazes to the right from CHF. (Q4 3:45)
Jones roves and runs to the hotspot for a left-foot snap but bounces it to the right. (Q4 8:01)
Baker marks 35m out in the corridor and converts. (Q4 11:20)
Stringer roves a Cadman contest at the hotspot and misses. (Q4 12:36)
Cadman performs the same trick with a straighter kick. (Q4 13:15)
O’Halloran does the same off the left. Bit of a procession. (Q4 14:43)
Aleer is caught HTB by two Eagles, Shanahan wins the raffle with Brockman for the free kick 40m out on a slight angle and kicks straight. (Q4 17:54)
Greene marks behind Allan 35m out on the flank, his set shot swerves inside the left post but drops on the goal line to be touched through by Flynn, confirmed on review. (Q4 24:13)
Ryan thrills the remaining crowd with a specky over Briggs at the hotspot, then disappoints them by shooting to the right. (Q4 26:05)
Ryan picks off Fonti’s short pass from the back pocket for a cheesy goal from 20m. (Q4 26:28)
O’Halloran exits a big pack out the front from CHF and wobbles through the goal from 40m. (Q4 27:57)