Mark Duffield - Four Thoughts (17.06.2026)

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
So you're saying with Hilton Honors, I can use points for a free night stay anywhere?

**SPEAKER_2** (0:04)
Anywhere.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:06)
What about fancy places like the Canopy in Paris? Yeah, Hilton Honors, baby. Or relaxing sanctuaries like the Conrad and Tulum?

**Mark Duffield** (0:13)
Hilton Honors, baby.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:15)
What about the five-star Waldorf Astoria in the Maldives? Are you going to do this for all 9,000 properties?

**SPEAKER_4** (0:22)
When you want points that can take you anywhere, anytime, it matters where you stay. Hilton for the stay.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:29)
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**Mark Duffield** (0:54)
To Four Thoughts on Sport to get us rolling this morning.
So Thought 1 is on Fremantle and a tough evening ahead at selection with the revelation that all of Bretton Cox, Caleb Sarong and Matt Johnson will be fit to face Geelong in arguably the biggest home game that the Dockers have played in so far this season. It's hard to get a real gauge on just how good the Dockers were against North Melbourne last time out. The Roos were so bad, but one or two players are going to be very stiff to miss out on this Dockers team. Oscar McDonald probably makes way for Cox, Sarong is playing as an absolute given, and Johnson's form before his hamstring niggle was compelling. Nathan O'Driscoll and Jager O'Meara may be the desperately unlucky players who missed this game. Thought 2 is still on the Dockers and we'll be talking to club CEO Simon Garlic later in the show.
The Dockers are closing in on a landmark breakthrough in membership with their tally, according to their website this week, edging past 69,100. That is already a club record. Breaking the 70,000 barrier seems inevitable. May even have already happened. It will be one of the questions we'll put to Simon.
Thought 3, Milan Murdoch has been justly rewarded for his strong form this season. Two-year contract extension. Mid-season draft selection from two years ago. Ryan Marrick is another. The Eagles have locked away for the next two seasons. I wonder how long it will be before Saturday's impressive debutant, Marcus Herbert, has a contract extension locked away. He is currently on a six-month deal. And finally, we have Duff and the doctor coming up in the second hour. We've got Dr. Sean Gorman joining us. We spoke to West Coast favourite Peter Matera last week, and there is a West Coast theme to it again this week. We will have Chris Lewis on the show today. We may also have another number 28 for West Coast, Ashley Sampy, on as well.
Chris, of course, was the teenage prodigy who lit up Subiaco on debut against Richmond in round one of 1987 That was West Coast's very first game in what was then known as the expanded VFL. 487 736 736 Let's have your thoughts and questions. 13 12 55 is the Barra and Doday open line. Barra and Doday, because the little things are everything. After the break, we'll be talking to Fremantle CEO, Simon Garlick, made in WA for WA. This is Mornings with Mark Duffield on SCNWA.