West Coast are holding off on re-signing veterans Mark LeCras, Matt Priddis and Sharrod Wellingham as they assess the state of their list.

All three senior players are coming out of contract at the end of this season.

LeCras, 30, and Priddis, 32, are still influential figures but are at the core of a playing list that has been labelled ‘Dad’s Army’ and is now the oldest in the competition.

The Eagles are fourth on the ladder but their premiership hopes were rocked by a 61-point hiding from Essendon at Etihad Stadium on Sunday.

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The club is in a far stronger position to make future list decisions with a looming resolution to the AFL players’ pay deal expected to lift the salary cap 20 per cent from $10.37 million this year to $12.4 million in 2018.

But the greater certainty surrounding the pot of money available to West Coast, who previously had limited scope to move inside a tight salary cap, is yet to spark fresh contract discussions surrounding LeCras, Priddis or Wellingham.

A 2010 All-Australian forward, LeCras is in the final year of a lucrative four-year contract.

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He remains a key scoring outlet for the Eagles with his 17 majors for the season putting him equal second with Jack Darling on the team’s goal-kicking list.

But the gap between LeCras’ best and worst form has become a headache for West Coast, with the 186-game sharpshooter one of several senior Eagles to have made a habit of bad performances on the road in the past two seasons.

He has booted only seven goals in the 10 losses since the 2015 grand final and finished with three behinds in Sunday’s game.

Priddis remains West Coast’s best contested-possession player and is averaging 26 disposals this year.

But his output and effectiveness with the ball has tapered since his 2014 Brownlow Medal-winning year.

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The midfielder has been given a one-year contract extension each pre-season for the past three years in an arrangement that has suited both parties.

West Coast are yet to pull the trigger on a new deal that would extend Priddis’ decorated tenure at the club into a 13th season in 2018.

The West Australian understands the Eagles are reluctant to offer any longer than one-year deals to their oldest players.

Wellingham, who turns 29 in July, is believed to be seeking a two-year extension. The 2010 premiership player has been a modest contributor this season.