Monday's Questions and Answers (13.07.2026)

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**Mark Duffield** (0:50)
Yes, it's time for Questions and Answers. Bored to us today. Thanks to the great folks at New Age Caravans WA.
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Yeah, thanks, Duff. And thanks for sharing as well, mate, because the support has been here every day in the past two weeks, and you see it pop up on Facebook, and we see it pop up in the messages again this morning. So we're happy to have you with us, and welcome back as well.
Ben was the first off the rank today with one of our questions and answers. He's saying this is the week to rescue us, coming up for free mantle against Port St. Brennan, Cox at Jackson, one of the forwards, then build momentum from there. But is that sort of a way that they're going to maybe stunt their momentum a little bit?

**Mark Duffield** (2:19)
It's a good question. And I think Craig O'Donoghue made some good points on this one. They're damned if they do and damned if they don't. I'm looking at the schedule and the way it works now, and I'm looking at what they will be trying to do in the run into what will hopefully be a premiership.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:38)
Hopefully. Hopefully.

**Mark Duffield** (2:39)
Or at the very least, a berth in the grand final. Yep. So, they're going to play. They had a break only three or four weeks ago with the bye. They've got another five or six weeks to go, and then there's the end of the home and away season, and then there's the wild card round, so that's another week off. Then they would be looking to play in a qualifying final, win that qualifying final, and have another week off after that. So, I'm not committing to resting just yet. If I see signs in one of the players, this is if I'm Justin Longmure, by the way. I'm not ringing him up and saying, whatever you do, risk this blow.
No, but if I was Justin Longmure, I'm not sort of committing myself to a program of rest and management just yet. I'm watching the players and sort of working out if someone's showing signs of fatigue, or if someone's a bit sore, or if someone has a specific injury history or a specific injury issue that means they should be managed in a slightly different way, then I'm doing it, but not necessarily because all the commentators are saying, oh, you've got the opportunities to do this, so therefore, you have to do it. They're tracking along very nicely. The other thing, they play such a great brand of footy, and when it's up and going, their skill level is so high, I suspect it's less challenging physically than some other teams who have to really bump and grind.
To get their winds out. So it may be that the effect on the players is not... We saw this with West Coast, I reckon, during the golden Adam Simpson years, when they were playing that kick through the defence brand of footy. It was very much based on skill execution, and it was taking less out of them than winds were taking out of other teams. So I'd be watching the players and seeing if someone needs a rest, but I certainly wouldn't be resting and managing for the sake of it, if I'm just a momeo.