Site Support for thewest.com.au

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➜  Downloads youtube-dl https://thewest.com.au/sport/afl/a-lone-eagles-fans-brave-stand-bc-5575662594001 -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://thewest.com.au/sport/afl/a-lone-eagles-fans-brave-stand-bc-5575662594001', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.09.11
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-16.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] a-lone-eagles-fans-brave-stand-bc-5575662594001: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] a-lone-eagles-fans-brave-stand-bc-5575662594001: Downloading webpage
[generic] a-lone-eagles-fans-brave-stand-bc-5575662594001: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://thewest.com.au/sport/afl/a-lone-eagles-fans-brave-stand-bc-5575662594001
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2116, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2539, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2528, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 15, column 12051
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 776, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 434, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2964, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://thewest.com.au/sport/afl/a-lone-eagles-fans-brave-stand-bc-5575662594001

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: https://thewest.com.au/sport/afl/a-lone-eagles-fans-brave-stand-bc-5575662594001

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Site support for thewest.com.au desired. Thanks