West Coast are hopeful that Willie Rioli will be available for selection in the club’s JLT Community Series opener against Port Adelaide at Leedverville Oval on Sunday despite suffering what club officials have labelled as a “minor” leg problem.

Rioli sparkled in the club’s AFLX team in Adelaide last week, showing the goal sense and skill level that have made his family one of football’s pre-eminent families since uncles Maurice and Sebastian took the WAFL by storm at South Fremantle in the 1970s.

But news that he was sore in the aftermath have sparked fears that he may have suffered a recurrence of the hamstring problems that plagued him in 2017.

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Rioli only played a handful of games at East Perth in his first season at the Eagles, setback by two significant hamstring injuries during the course of the season.

Eagles football manager Craig Vozzo did not specify the nature of Rioli’s injury but declared it minor and said the Eagles were “hoping” Rioli would be available for selection for Sunday.

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