Dalton Gooding  Dalton Gooding (born 18 November 1954) is a Western Australian businessman, and from 2002 to 2007 he was the chairman of the West Coast Eagles Australian Football League club. He was also a founding partner of the Chartered Accounting firm Gooding Pervan, which later became DFK Gooding Partners. A former footballer himself, in the early 1970s Gooding moved from his hometown of Dumbleyung in rural Western Australia to take up a 3-year $1000 scholarship offered to him by WAFL club Claremont. He played nine seasons for the "Tigers" and represented Western Australia in a game at the 1975 Knockout Carnival. In addition to his West Coast Eagles chairmanship, Gooding is a principal in the accounting firm DFK Gooding Partners, as well as being on a number of boards.