Wednesday's Questions and Answers (17.06.2026)

**Paul Heath** (0:00)
So good, so good, so good.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:03)
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**SPEAKER_3** (0:27)
So you're saying with Hilton Honors, I can use points for a free night stay anywhere?

**SPEAKER_2** (0:32)
Anywhere.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:33)
What about fancy places like the Canopy in Paris? Yeah, Hilton Honors, baby. Or relaxing sanctuaries like the Conrad and Tulum?

**Mark Duffield** (0:41)
Hilton Honors, baby.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:43)
What about the five-star Waldorf Astoria in the Maldives? Are you going to do this for all 9,000 properties?

**SPEAKER_5** (0:49)
When you want points that can take you anywhere, anytime, it matters where you stay. Hilton for the stay.

**Mark Duffield** (1:01)
Yeah, it's a couple of good questions and answers coming through on the text line. That is 487 736 736 If you want to share your thoughts with us on this cloudy morning in Perth, Paul Heath, welcome.

**Paul Heath** (1:13)
Thanks. Nice to be here. I just had to check the weather behind me.

**Mark Duffield** (1:15)
I looked out there and I realised that it was a shadow, not cloud.
The sun is shining on the Canfield Hotel. It's like something biblical. It's like the Canfield Hotel sort of beckoning to us.

**Paul Heath** (1:27)
It's just that one light on the hill sometimes.

**Mark Duffield** (1:29)
Come hither.

**Paul Heath** (1:29)
Yeah, hopefully. Jason from Swanview asking, why wasn't Hamish Davis stretch it off the ground, given that he was so wobbly on his feet? It would be interesting to hear the views of the West Coast Medics as to why they got him off the ground in the manner that they did, says Jason.

**Mark Duffield** (1:43)
I think they didn't realise how wobbly he was until he got up. And then it was kind of like, OK, can he walk?

**Paul Heath** (1:49)
He saw the actual bend of the legs, didn't he, when it happened?

**Mark Duffield** (1:52)
So it's one of those ones. Concussion is a weird thing. You don't actually know how bad you are until you actually go to stand up. And what happens when the... I know this from personal experience, right? What happens when your legs go wobbly is the...
You feel like the ground's shifting underneath you. I actually had the earth turn 180 degrees.

**Paul Heath** (2:15)
Yeah, that's not good.

**Mark Duffield** (2:16)
Once I just sat back down again.

**Paul Heath** (2:19)
You're in a bit of trouble when that happens.

**Mark Duffield** (2:20)
Well, this is a bit different. So yeah, I think that's why. Had they known how sick he was, when they stood him up, they probably would have got the cart out there.

**Paul Heath** (2:32)
You don't see the cart come out too often these days, do you? I can't remember the last time I've seen one here.

**Mark Duffield** (2:36)
Yeah.

**Paul Heath** (2:38)
But yeah, still, that was a bad one. Yeah, so just to clear your thoughts on last night's proceedings, the three weeks for Paul Curtis.

**Mark Duffield** (2:47)
Yeah, I'm fine with it. I just wish they would be consistent. Yeah. And I think if we're going to do it on outcomes, and that's an outcome thing, because it wasn't a sling tackle. There was no second movement. He just drove him hard down, and Hamish Davis' head hit the ground, and so therefore, he has concussion.

**Paul Heath** (3:06)
He didn't have his arms pinned, but he sort of did have the arms unable to put themselves out to brace, I think, which makes it, in a way, that three weeks suspension.

**Mark Duffield** (3:16)
He's a strong bugger, Paul Curtis. Yeah. Like you see him do the don't argues and the fend off.

**Paul Heath** (3:20)
Yes.

**Mark Duffield** (3:21)
And he's got real strength. He's a lean looking bloke, but he's got real strength. And he's probably one of those guys who doesn't know his own strength.
And Hamish is a young bloke, still, you know, probably a summer in the gym away from being, as you would like him to be, to be an AFL player. And that's, yeah, it was unfortunate. I don't think he meant any harm, but it was significantly forceful. There's a significant injury to come out of it, so therefore there has to be a consequence. But if you apply that rule, then as much as we know that Billy Frampton wasn't malicious, with the Myerchek tackle, there is a consequence, and there was almost a dire consequence. So therefore, should there be a consequence for the player? And there should definitely have been a consequence for Marby Echoll, for the tackle on Tom Stewart, which put Tom Stewart out of the grand final.