Mornings with Mark Duffield FULL SHOW!! (17.06.2026)

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On June 26th, Super Grilla arrives in theaters.

**Kane Cornes** (0:03)
Let's go. Your powers are gonna take in now.

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This is very impressive.

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Get ready for a movie event unlike any other.

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Superman sees the good in everyone, and I see the truth.

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Get your tickets now for the most fun.

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Crypto!

**Paul Heath** (0:18)
And fresh movie of the summer.

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What are you going to do?

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Something stupid.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:22)
No, it's a party.

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DC's Supergirl, only in theaters June 26th.

**Paul Heath** (0:27)
Get tickets now.

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Rated PG-13 may be inappropriate for children under 13

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Okay, I have to tell you, I was just looking on eBay where I go for all kinds of things I love, and there it was.

**Paul Heath** (0:36)
That hologram trading card.

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One of the rarest, the last one I needed for my set.

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Shiny like the designer handbag of my dreams. One of a kind. eBay had it, and now everyone's asking, ooh, where'd you get your?

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Windchill wiper. eBay has all the parts that fit my car. No more annoying.
Just beautiful.

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Millions of finds, each with a story. eBay, things people love.

**Mark Duffield** (1:00)
Hello everybody, welcome to the SEN WA Radio Studio. We're out here at Optus Stadium. It is a Wednesday morning in Perth. We are here thanks to Beaumont Homes. Award-winning design, built to be loved forever. Partly cloudy in our city today, currently 7.4 degrees outside, atop of 15 degrees later in the day. Made in WA, for WA. This is Mornings with Mark Duffield on SEN WA. I've got Paul, he's standing next to me at the moment. He's just helping me with my technological inadequacies, getting my Google document screen back up and running after I crashed it just before we went on air. This is a quote from, on social media, from North Melbourne's Jai Simken. The AFL needs to get it together. The constant rule changes and the MRO is laughable. People don't know what they can and can't do anymore. Just hope for the best each week. And that was his reaction after his teammate Paul Curtis had been, or had a three match ban for the dangerous tackle on West Coast, Hamish Davis on Saturday upheld.
Of course, that happened on Saturday afternoon, that tackle. Now, to be clear, the game has a problem if it's not suspending Curtis for that tackle.
So Davis was a very sick boy after it, slammed his head into the deck, left him dazed and wobbly on his feet.
The Curtis tackle did not fit neatly into the double movement sling tackle definitions, but it was definitely a slam tackle applied with high force and with severe consequences. The problem here though is consistency or the lack of it. So Curtis' ban follows hot on the heels of the Tribunal decision to clear Collingwood's Billy Frampton of a dangerous tackle on Brodie Meyercheck. Now, that tackle originally left Frampton facing a three match ban. It left Meyercheck with a fractured neck and caused the frightening spectacle of him lying prone on the ground asking for help because he temporarily couldn't feel his limbs.
Frampton's heartfelt evidence at his Tribunal hearing certainly helped his cause. He is a former teammate of Meyercheck. He considered himself a friend. There was an absence of malice in the tackle.
Simpkin pointed out that less than a year ago, in a final series no less, a tackle by Hawthorne's Marbia Choll on Tom Stewart eventually went unpunished. So Choll was originally suspended for three matches but got off at the Tribunal.
Stewart, concast in the tackle, was subbed out of the game against the Hawks. He missed the grand final against Brisbane a week later.
Football has tough decisions to make on incidents like these because while Frampton was able to convince the Tribunal that his tackle on Meyer-Chek was just an accident, it was an accident that very nearly resulted in terrible and life-altering consequences for Meyer-Chek. These are not easy or comfortable discussions for football. It's easy to dismiss the Frampton tackle on Meyer-Chek as a split-second action and reaction, and we can all believe that Frampton had absolutely no malice when he attempted the tackle. But here is the thing.
Curtis had no longer than a split-second when he tackled Davis. He did not tackle the eagle to concuss him. He tackled him because at the instant he started the tackle, Davis was in possession of the ball. Now the ball spilled on the way down, which makes the tackle seem worse. The tackle does bear many similarities to the one that saw Chole initially suspended, then exonerated for, even though the tackle put Stuart, one of the key members of the Cats lineup, out of a grand final. Now we see a lot of tackles like Curtis' go unpunished because the tackled player does not get concussion. But if consequences hold the absolute key here, then how does Frampton get exonerated for a tackle that leaves a player with a fractured neck and very nearly put him in a wheelchair? And how does Chole get exonerated for a tackle that takes a key player out of an AFL grand final? When all is said and done, is it possible or is it reasonable that consequences remain our best guide on whether a player should or shouldn't face a significant ban for a tackle? Let's face it. It's not inconsistent with what happens in real life. You run a stop sign, you get fined and lose demerit points. You run a stop sign and hit another car, causing serious injury or death, you go to jail. 487 736 736 That is the text line. Let's have your thoughts and questions. 1312 55 is the Bara and O'Day open line. Bara and O'Day because little things are everything. Let's move on to Four Thoughts on Sport to get us rolling this morning.