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West Coast Larrikins: 20 Cult Heroes, Hard Men and Lovable Rogues
Paperback
Series: Footy Larrikins
AthletesAustralia & OceaniaGeneral Winter Sports
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 14 2026
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Twenty players. Four premiership eras. Forty years of football characters.
West Coast became one of Australian football's most powerful clubs through premierships, professionalism and an uncompromising belief that a team from Western Australia could take on the established football order.
But trophies tell only part of the story.
WEST COAST LARRIKINS celebrates twenty of the cult heroes, hard men and unforgettable personalities who gave the club its character.
From the emotion and courage of Chris Mainwaring, the outspoken confidence of Karl Langdon and the fire of Chris Lewis, to Peter Sumich's unforgettable kicking style and Glen Jakovich's heavyweight battles with the competition's greatest forwards, the early Eagles quickly produced personalities as memorable as their victories.
Later generations brought their own characters.
Ben Cousins became the golden boy of a brilliant but turbulent era. Daniel Kerr played football permanently close to the edge. Daniel Chick, Adam Hunter, Quinten Lynch and Beau Waters supplied toughness, unpredictability and some of the defining moments of the club's rise back to the premiership.
Then came Mark LeCras, Josh Kennedy, Nic Naitanui, Will Schofield and Liam Ryan, footballers whose skill, individuality and unmistakable personalities created a new generation of West Coast favourites.
These are not simply the twenty greatest Eagles.
They are the players supporters remembered because something about them was different.
Funny. Fierce. Brilliant. Flawed. Courageous. Unpredictable.
Sometimes all at once.
Covering the club's journey from its establishment in 1986 through the premiership eras of 1992, 1994, 2006 and 2018, WEST COAST LARRIKINS is an independent football history about the characters who transformed a new club into one of the biggest institutions in Australian sport.
For West Coast supporters who remember the goals, the hits, the arguments, the celebrations - and the players who made following the Eagles unforgettable.
Part of the FOOTY LARRIKINS series - 18 clubs, 20 characters per club, and hundreds of stories from Australian football history.
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