West Coast Eagles defender Beau Waters recovering faster than expected Eagle Beau Waters has made a better-than-expected recovery from shoulder surgery. WEST Coast defender Beau Waters has made a better-than-expected recovery from shoulder surgery and is on course to start full pre-season training later this month. Waters has defied prospects that his injury plagued-career could be over if he had not fully recovered from his latest operation. He is believed to have regained full motion in his shoulder and is already stronger than expected at this stage of recovery from surgery early last month. Waters has resumed heavy weights training and has been cleared to start tackling, bumping and doing full-body contest work when he launches his pre-season campaign. In another boost for West Coast's hopes next season, big on-baller Nic Naitanui is in full running after a rest and recuperation program to recover from groin problems that limited the ruck star to just 11 games between Round 6 and 17 last season. Naitanui, 23, is into lengthy endurance running and 400m sprinting in readiness to launch his summer program under new senior coach Adam Simpson. Naitanui, ruck partner Dean Cox, veteran defender Shannon Hurn, new midfielder Xavier Ellis and Waters have been among a host of West Coast regulars in heavy running and weights workouts around Eagles headquarters while on annual leave. Under AFL Player's Association regulations, clubs are not permitted to monitor, or insist on training, during their uninterrupted eight-week breaks. Waters, 27, is understood to have been cleared for physical contact training when West Coast starts summer training on November 18, putting him more than a month ahead of schedule. The 2012 All-Australian half-back required more surgery on his troublesome right shoulder when he suffered complications from an operation that ended his season back in August. Waters last played in the Eagles' come-from-behind one-goal win over the Crows in Adelaide in Round 15 on July 6. He managed just seven games this year for a career tally of 120.