Mark Duffield, SEN WA Mornings host & Code Sports writer (29.09.26)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Breakfast with Gary and Tim.
Great to have you with us. We're basking in the afterglow of a grand final of um well for the ages, one we're never likely to see repeated in the circumstances. Um Jason's got his Ramble Red. He says the Ramble Red's up there with the grand final. He says it arrived, Jess says I couldn't help myself. I cracked the bottle on Monday night and it was bloody delicious. Well, Jace, we might have to send a bottle or two over to the West. We're not reveling in the discipline. appointment in any way, shape, or form, but it is a massive part of the storyline of one of the grand finals that'll be talked about for a long, long time. And Mark Duffield right in the middle of it at home with S E N W A. And uh he's been good enough to get up a bit earlier and take our call.
Good day Duff.
Yeah, Gary, how you going?
We're going well. What we wanna know is how is your state, how is your town of Fremantle and their Purple Army travelling at the moment?
How did Fremantle fans react to the grand final loss?
Well, you probably saw what it was like uh on Saturday night in Melbourne 'cause half of them were over there. I think they were sort of it was a it was a massive uh purple invasion of Melbourne uh for the grand final week and uh yeah, very flattening, I think, uh would be the way I was described. I was watching the game from behind the goals at the Punt Road End up in the the fourth tier. It was a great spot to watch it from and uh surrounded by Freo fans and uh and they were going nuts and then they weren't. And uh uh yeah, walking out of there it was a bit like a wake. Uh so it's knocked the stuffing out of them a bit I think. But uh Having said that, you know, credit to an all time great team to uh engage a gear that I don't think any other team in the competition has, not even Fremantle, and they uh they did that in the last four minutes.
Uh duff one of the big talking points post game obviously has been uh the playing of Wolfie time.
Did Fremantle's 'Wolfe time' activation contribute to the grand final collapse?
And Gary and I were talking about this before. Who whose decision was it to actually push the button? Do we know?
No one knows. Um Simon Garlic often jokes, you know, it's like fight club, the thing about the first rule of Warfy time is you don't talk about Warfy time. Um I I've got to be honest, I I think it's a complete nonsense. You know, when Voss kicks the goal, Brisbane are seventeen points down with four minutes to go in a grand final. They are a great team, they were striving for greatness. If it wasn't gonna be then, it was gonna be never. Um and if you flip the the narrative and you say, Okay, they don't play Wolfie time and Brisbane goes and kicks the four goals uh or the the four goals that they did in those last four minutes, everyone's yelling and screaming, Why didn't you bloody play Wolfy time? you know, it's sort of and
People have forgotten, I think, that Wolfy time is a crowd activation, not a tactic. And it's been used well, before the grand final it had been used twice this year. Um Freemantle were fortunate enough to win those two games, but it was used in a final last year and they lost that game. Um it was used in the Gold Coast game at um at Optus Stadium and it was actually used when Fremantle were in front and they lost the lead. So it's it's kind of It's a convenient narrative and I understand the the the story around it, but I think what we saw was um That as good as Freeman will have been Brisbane at their best are still slightly better and um and that's what came out in the last four minutes.
Yeah, well I'm of the other opinion, Duff. I think it's has to be buried and buried at the bottom of the Fremantle Harbour and never be seen again. Um it gave permission to a Brisbane side. It may or may not have happened, I know that, but it did. And the fr the Brisbane boys talked about it. They prepared for it, they use it as the motivation. So you think that they'll continue on with it?
Yeah, I think they will. I think they they might think when they use it. Um but the other thing and and this is a different conversation, but it it it ties into what you're talking about.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:57
2
How did Fremantle fans react to the grand final loss?
0:57–1:47
3
Did Fremantle's 'Wolfe time' activation contribute to the grand final collapse?
1:47–5:08
4
How could Alex Pearce's Achilles injury affect Fremantle's defense?
5:08–7:22
5
Did Alex Pearce's injury change the outcome of the grand final?
7:22–8:13
6
Was Shai Bolton the right choice for the Norm Smith Medal, and who were the grand final's standout players?
8:13–11:19
7
Could Jack Viney help West Coast and mentor Harley Reid?
11:19–12:11
8
Is Jamie Graham a leading candidate for North Melbourne's coaching job?
12:11–14:15
Speakers
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