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2020 AFL SEASON OFFICIAL BUSINESS PILLAR PARTNER OF THE WEST COAST EAGLES The West Coast Eagles Premium Hospitality team is always happy to assist you on match days and during the week. Please find details below on how you can best get in touch. MITCHELL BOON CHRISTIE MOORE-CROUCH PREMIUM SALES ACCOUNT MANAGER PREMIUM HOSPITALITY COORDINATOR (08) 6141 3633 | 0451 531 588 (08) 6141 3632 | 0423 543 994 MELISSA MADSEN RHYS ANDERTON PREMIUM SALES ACCOUNT MANAGER PREMIUM SALES MANAGER (08) | 9388 4519 | 0412 587 943 (08) 9388 4589 | 0408 902 473 ANDREW MCGUINNESS PREMIUM SALES ACCOUNT MANAGER (08) 6141 3648 | 0422 083 377 WEST COAST EAGLES MINERAL RESOURCES PARK, 42 BISHOPSGATE STREET, LATHLAIN, WA, 6100 PO BOX 152, VICTORIA PARK, WA, 6979 TEL (08) 9388 4500 DIAL 3 FOR PREMIUM HOSPITALITY EMAIL [email protected] EAGLESHOSPITALITY.COM.AU TABLE OF CONTENTS WELCOME TO SEASON 2020 ................................................................................................................................................... 4 CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE ........................................................................................................................................................... 5 BOARD ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 MINERAL RESOURCES PARK .................................................................................................................................................. 7 ADVERTISE WITH THE WEST COAST EAGLES ....................................................................................................................... 8 AFLW..................................... ..................................................................................................................................................... 10 COMMUNITY AND GAME DEVELOPMENT .............................................................................................................................. 11 EXPERIENCES & VIRGIN TRAVEL ............................................................................................................................................ 12 WEST COAST EAGLES CONCIERGE SERVICES ..................................................................................................................... 15 WEST COAST CONNECT .......................................................................................................................................................... 16 MAJOR EVENTS ........................................................................................................................................................................ 18 PREMIUM FACILITIES .............................................................................................................................................................. 20 ROOM/FACILITY OPENING TIMES .......................................................................................................................................... 22 ROOM/FACILITY DRESS STANDARDS..................................................................................................................................... 23 OPTUS STADIUM MAP .............................................................................................................................................................. 24 GENERAL INFORMATION ......................................................................................................................................................... 25 WELCOME TO SEASON 2020 The club believes that it has had a of significant matches played at Optus productive off-season and pre-season Stadium. campaign and that the West Coast Eagles are in a good position to have a strong We look forward to your support as we impact in 2020. strive to win those big games as well as others against the two Adelaide clubs, both The obvious addition of Tim Kelly makes of whom are keen to rise and look in good our team stronger, but his arrival alone shape, Essendon, North Melbourne and will not make the difference. Our coaching Sydney who are all formidable opponents. staff and our entire playing group has trained and prepared with great purpose It is going to be another captivating season. and professionalism, and all are looking We trust you enjoy what lies ahead. excitedly towards the season that starts with a round one show-down against The lessons of 2019 will be a powerful Melbourne at Optus Stadium. motivator as the West Coast Eagles embark on their 2020 campaign. We have a challenging fixture, a by-product of having played finals football in each WEST COAST EAGLES ARE IN A GOOD POSITION TO HAVE A STRONG IMPACT IN 2020 of the last five years, and we are looking The club did so much right in the year forward to what awaits. of their title defence, but hit a couple of hurdles late in the season that saw it fall There are a couple of marquee games short of expectations. after that opening encounter against a Melbourne team keen to respond to their It’s always an extremely difficult task to disappointments of 2019. successfully defend a premiership and history shows we finished sixth. From Clashes against powerhouses like there it has been a matter of focussing on Richmond, Collingwood, GWS, Geelong improvement to push back into serious and, of course the RAC Derby against contention. Fremantle, mean there will be a host 4 WEST COAST EAGLES PREMIUM HOSPITALITY CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE Still, our job remains to create a point of difference for to maintain high standards that give us reason for our club and to find ways to keep us among the most optimism. innovative and professional in the competition. For this we are extremely grateful to all in the West Coast We strive to and believe we do most things well, both Eagles family including our sponsors, our corporate on and off the field, and assisting us in our endeavours partners, our members and our fans that have been is our most recent and exciting long-term project that there during our 33-year journey. We never take this was completed in the middle of last season. Our new support for granted and hope you enjoy our quest to WE STRIVE TO AND BELIEVE WE DO MOST THINGS WELL, BOTH ON AND Those who are the keenest of supporters of our club may have heard it said that the AFL competition is as OFF THE FIELD tough as any in the world. And that if you’re standing still, you’re going backwards. training and administration base at Mineral Resources build on a sustained period of success including playing It is an ultra-competitive environment that pits against Park saw the realisation of a dream to build a home for in our sixth successive finals series. each other, 18 well-credentialed, highly motivated and players, staff, members, sponsors and all in the West resourced opponents all aiming for the same targets. Coast Eagles family. On behalf of all who are part of The West Coast Eagles ….THANKYOU! Making gains, finding the smallest opportunity to An important component of the facility has been the create a competitive advantage is tough but that’s what accommodation of the Wirrpanda Foundation and motivates those with a hand on the wheel steering our our ever-expanding community department. This will club. ensure we can continue delivering the extensive range of programs which are so important in ensuring our We are very proud of the on field record our West Coast club makes a very positive impact in the community. Eagles have built over the last 33 years. Not just because of what we have achieved in that time – winning four The timing of our move, in the middle of last season, was Russell Gibbs premierships and playing finals more than any other challenging on several fronts, but it did meld neatly into West Coast Eagles Chairman team in the league, but also how we’ve gone about the the evolution of our AFLW team – the last piece of the task from the most remote city in the country. puzzle that makes our club whole. We have also had to work within a system governed by The female team has begun its first campaign and we many measures designed to equalise the competition know that whatever they achieve in 2020 they will build including the salary cap, the draft and now the cap on upon it as we progress and grow into a competition football department spending, referred to as the ‘soft where most other clubs have been given a head start. cap.’ Notwithstanding each can present an additional challenge, we understand and support why those We are excited by what the 2020 season promises, and measures are in place. it is the foundations of hard work and a fierce drive EAGLESHOSPITALITY.COM.AU 5 BOARD RUSSELL GIBBS (CHAIRMAN) JUSTIN LANGER MANAGING DIRECTOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE HAWAIIAN GROUP HEAD COACH OF THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM Russell was appointed as the director and chief executive of Hawaiian in 2000, a An outstanding Australian left-hand batsman, he was part of one of the most successful privately held Western Australia-based property company which owns and manages opening partnerships in cricket history with Queenslander Matthew Hayden. A commercial, retail, hospitality and development portfolios. He was previously state pugnacious competitor he played 105 Test matches for his country and scored 7696 runs president and national councillor of the Property Council of Australia, a member of at an impressive average of 45.27. His highest