Mark Duffield
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Nov 4, 2026
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We'll talk to Craig O'Donoghue from the West Australian on the Wildcats and the Lynx.
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We'll have Sammy Whitcomb coming in as well to chat about her ongoing battle with that knee concern that will keep her out of the WNBL season this year.
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the draft expert, about Indigenous players in this draft and whether there's a lot or whether there's not very many and whether this is just part of that ongoing issue of getting more of these kids into the AFL.
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Watched or listened to Melbourne Cups in a shearing shed, in a classroom, always in the newsroom, in a car on the side of the road, delivering copy as a young reporter at the Southwest Times.
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Just, I've been to three, including that one, the media puzzle win, which was my favorite Melbourne Cup memory.
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I think there'll be opportunities for West Coast AFLW team next season if Ella Roberts doesn't play because they weren't going to win it next year anyway.
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And they need to round out a few players and they need to find greater roles for a few players.
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going to be talking to interim Perth Bears CEO, Gareth Holmes, about the preparations upcoming for their debut season or their resuscitation season in the NRL.
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Was he an internal placement? Was he already at the club? I'm not sure about that.
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I think there'll be opportunities for West Coast AFLW team next season if Ella Roberts doesn't play because they weren't going to win it next year anyway.
Mark DuffieldGUEST
And they need to round out a few players and they need to find greater roles for a few players.
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So basically you might protect them on day one, but you're throwing them to the wolves on day five.
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was incredibly significant, even though he walks away with just the two wickets.
Peter BellHOST
And I'm just wondering, where's the common sense? Where's the logic with something like
Peter BellHOST
Hey, Duff, you're going to have a crack at selecting the third test line-up for Australia on your show.
Mark DuffieldGUEST
When you look at the changes that are going to be made to the batting order, I think inevitably...
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What have you got coming up, Duff? We're going to be talking to Dockers AFLW assistant coach Darren Rumble.
Peter VlahosHOST
And it was a very enlightening interview from a player who basically just had his AFL career for the time being taken away from him.
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And I think the question is, can he convince someone that he's good enough? He's a big-bodied mid.
Peter VlahosHOST
I know that you've been fairly vocal on, too, last week, and why the Eagles have retained him.
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Even if you have to pay out the full salary to let him go, you just let him go and you free up the list spot.
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The list spot is more important than any embarrassment you suffer because you bought in Matt Owies and he's no longer a functional member of your best 23.
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Lachy continues to deny to this day that the meeting actually happened, which, you know, whatever.
Tim GossageHOST
And I noticed, uh, you, a lot of your show yesterday, there was still a lot of angsty and, uh, nervous and disappointed West Coast fans for so-called lack of activity in the trade.
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The most important thing for West Coast is to nail pick three, which will be pick five.
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Let's go back two years, and they lost pick three because they mucked around on the Tommy Barrass trade, and, um, Hawthorn walked away from it unexpectedly, and look at what that cost them.
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blokes who can't putt, because when you've putted four times and missed, you just pick them all up and swear and walk to the next tee.
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What have you got coming up after nine o'clock? We'll be talking trades with Will Faulkner.
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We'll talk to new WA State cricket captain Aaron Hardy, who battered Western Australia to victory yesterday, a great innings of 80.
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You've got Don Pike coming in at, or not coming in, sorry, on the phone at 9.15 to talk all things West Coast.
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I'm going to be talking to a bloke called James Wallum, who's one of the organisers of the big Indigenous football carnival.
Mark DuffieldGUEST
Do you see some of the guys they get playing in that? So Shea Bolton ran around this year.
Tim GossageHOST
I'm not too sure whether you could hear it or whether you heard it, but what an impressive young man and a highly emotional day yesterday when he went in and got told that he was no longer required.
Mark DuffieldGUEST
Yeah, it's a brutal industry, isn't it? He's been a wonderful player, I think, for Fremantle Bailey Banfield.
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I'm going to be talking to Will Faulkner and we'll sort of get an update on all the trades where the – The North Melbourne coaching selection sits.
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You would have thought that one thing you do start a process like that with is an open mind.
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It felt like they actively discouraged Adam Simpson from going through the process.
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Why would you do that? Why would you not just let a premiership coach go through the process and see what he has to offer? Like to me, Simo ran out of energy in the end at West Coast, I think.
Tim GossageHOST
Was he the guy that you came in whinging about that he put his seat all the way back? He's making
Mark DuffieldGUEST
Um, Simon Garlick often jokes, you know, it's like Fight Club, the thing about the first rule of Woofy Time is you don't talk about Woofy Time.
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You know, when Voss kicks the goal, Brisbane are 17 points down with four minutes to go in a grand final.
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in its entirety, actually a better game than the preliminary final, the Hawthorne-Brisbane preliminary final, because there was defence and serious contests through the whole thing.
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And I was sitting behind the goals, fourth level, in amongst a whole group of Fremantle
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I reckon one thing they do need to work on, and this will feed into how Josh Tracy's going, the kick inside attacking 50 has been poor.
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at times, and particularly poor for the two-and-a-half quarters against Sydney.
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They've tended to converge on each other a bit over the course of the finals, but that may be a bit about the delivery as well.
Mark DuffieldGUEST
You can only think Murphy will get better week on week after that injury, and I think that injury has affected the way he delivers the ball.
16 MINS LATER
Tim GossageHOST
Do you take that out and say, well, if Fremantle can do that against Sydney but Brisbane couldn't, that fills you with any confidence?
Tim GossageHOST
Do you take that out and say, "Well, if Fremantle can do that against Sydney but Brisbane couldn't," that, that fills you with any confidence?
Mark DuffieldGUEST
It's kind of every game's different, but what I would say is that I thought Dean Cox's performance in reshaping the Sydney team was the coaching performance of the finals.
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Look, I know he only coached in two finals, but I think he's the coach of the finals.
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They did Brisbane in, and they had Fremantle under the cosh for two and a half quarters, and Fremantle got out from under them.
Mark DuffieldGUEST
And talking to Caleb Serong on Sunday, he talked about them just knowing that the pressure had to subside at some s- at some stage, and grinding away and grinding away.
7 MINS LATER
Tim GossageHOST
The reason why, fr- from your analyst point of view, the reason why you think Fremantle will win, and who holds the key?
Mark DuffieldGUEST
I reckon one thing they do need to work on, and this will feed into how Josh Tracy's going, the kick inside attacking 50 has been poor at times and particularly poor for the two and a half quarters against Sydney.
Mark DuffieldGUEST
They've tended to converge on each other a bit over the course of the finals, but that may be a bit about the delivery as well.
Mark DuffieldGUEST
I mean, you can only think Murphy will get better week on week after that injury.
Matt JohnsonGUEST
So, yeah, I'm pretty keen to get out and train this week, but just trying to stay where my feet are.
Mark DuffieldGUEST
One of the fascinating highlights I think of Fremantle's season has been the number of players that have improved absolutely significantly off their previous level and I suspect you would regard yourself as one of them.
1 HR 21 MINS LATER
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Obviously, we'll chat to him about Nick's Brownlow win, talk to him a bit about Lockie Neal's upcoming tribunal hearing and, of course, the grand final, how that shapes up as well.
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I'm going to talk to inaugural Fremantle CEO David Hatt about the origins of the club and probably get an opinion from him on Shawnee Mack being the one that presents the cup, which I think is fitting.
Tim GossageHOST
Who's going to play on Errol Goulden on Friday night? If you were a Fremantle, would you think about some hard tag or do you just put a Johnson near him?
Tim GossageHOST
Now you're coming up after nine o'clock and you're paying tribute to one of the greats of WA football who sadly passed away.
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