Hundreds of moments make up the proud football club we all know and love today.
From a match-winning goal, to a gravity-defying mark, to a solid team-oriented effort, our past on-field achievements have brought joy to supporters across the country and have helped to shape and define the direction our future will take.
Season 2011 marks our 25th year, and to help us celebrate, you were invited to have your say on the historic moments you believe have been the most significant to the West Coast Eagles.
All your votes have been tallied up and we are ready to countdown from moment #25. Stay tuned to westcoasteagles.com.au as we’ll be revealing one moment each week until we unveil the single most defining moment in our history at the end of the home and away campaign.
Scott Cummings’ goal-kicking exploits during season 2000 has been voted in at #17.
Kicking bags of 14 and 10 against Adelaide and Fremantle respectively, Cummings was awarded the Coleman Medal for his season tally of 96 goals. His record against the Crows has never been beaten by West Coast player.
Cummings himself recalls each goal against Adelaide vividly.
“I don’t really remember it that well, but the first one was at the three-and-a-half-minute mark of the first quarter, it was a strong grab and kicked a goal, and then the second one was at the six-minute mark, I think. Another goal. It’s really vague. Seven-minute mark I think there was really strong hands and then a goal.
“It was a good night of footy, I really enjoyed it. The boys were just lacing me out everywhere. Kempy hitting me, Roo hitting me, Cuzzy just laced a couple of worm-burners at me. It was just a good night. And to do it against Adelaide, I mean who really likes Adelaide? No one, to be perfectly honest.”
Former teammate Guy McKenna was equally wry when reflecting upon Cummings’ performance against the Crows.
“Scotty kicking all those goals leant itself to a unique situation,” McKenna begins. “We couldn’t get in the change-room because his guts and his head were that big. We couldn’t shower. So we basically had to wait until Scott Cummings had finished in the change-room, we actually had to wait outside.
“It meant a different warm-down, we had to do our warm-down on the outside of the rooms which was a good opportunity to sign autographs and stuff like that while the big head and big gutted thing was inside just wallowing in his own glory.”
Cummings suffered a minor form slump immediately after the Adelaide match, kicking 1.1 against Geelong. But the full-forward turned it on once again when his team met Fremantle the following round.
“To kick 10 in a derby, it was really exciting,” Cummings enthuses. “I enjoyed that because I put them in Adelaide’s category, who really likes Fremantle? I can’t like them, you don’t like them.
“It was good to play those blokes down the road and smack them. And we smacked them that night and that was fun. Consistent footy though, really consistent. That’s what I pride myself on. Fourteen, one, ten and I don’t think I played another game for the rest of the year, so it was awesome.”
Click here to watch Scott Cummings and other club legends analyse this moment in West Coast history.
