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Duff and QuartersVideoWhy WA would nail ‘Dreamtime at the P’

If ‘Dreamtime at the G’ heads west in round 12, what better opportunity to celebrate WA’s Indigenous stars while showing what Optus Stadium could have achieved with the 2020 grand final.

Duff and QuartersVideoThe Eagle to save West Coast premiership push

The Giants outran West Coast on Sunday, but which young Eagle could provide instant relief for the club’s midfield depth issue?

Duff and QuartersVideoComments‘Stop treating Fremantle as a basket case’: Duffield

Are Fremantle fans better served accepting they are a middle-of-the-road club instead of paying attention to comparisons with West Coast? Mark Duffield makes the case.

Duff and QuartersVideoDockers’ best draft target is in own backyard

The mid-season draft returns in June and Peel’s pint-sized ball magnet Tyrone Thorne is gaining momentum every game as a potential draft roughie, but are Fremantle interested?

Josh Garlepp

Duff and QuartersVideoStrom deserves moment in the Sun

The Gold Coast will be without a healthy ruckman for the foreseeable future, but the Suns may find an answer through the surplus of talented talls in the WAFL in June’s mid-season draft.

Josh Garlepp

Duff and QuartersVideoPearce may be forced forward against Dees

Fremantle’s tall stocks have been decimated this preseason, the Dockers may be forced to send a dominant defender forward to get past the Dees on Saturday in Melbourne.

Josh Garlepp

Duff and QuartersVideoThe master plan to reignite all tiers of finals footy

A bye week before the AFL grand final will make sure the best talent is available for the game’s biggest stage while providing a celebration of all states’ contribution to footy.

Josh Garlepp

Duff and QuartersVideoFreo’s future as the bargain bucket AFL performer

On this week’s episode of The Duff and Quarters Podcast our hosts examine the impact of COVID-19 cuts on our AFL clubs next season and how Freo’s slim down is playing out by the numbers.

Josh Garlepp

Duff and QuartersVideoDuff and Quarters: Freo’s favour to rival West Coast

West Coast will watch Fremantle’s final fixture of the 2020 season against the Western Bulldogs with serious interest as the result potentially decides their opponent for the first week of finals.

Josh Garlepp

Duff and QuartersVideoDuff and Quarters: Star Eagles need to play on

The West Australian’s chief footy writer Mark Duffield and The Sunday Times’ sports editor Glen Quartermain believe West Coast need to take their final fixture seriously for a crack at the top-four.

Josh Garlepp

Duff and QuartersVideoDuff and Quarters: Why are so many people in the hub?

AFL chief executive Gil McLachlan has reportedly sent a stern message to misbehaving hub attendees after reports of a debaucherous time on the Gold Coast, but why are 400 people there to begin with?

Josh Garlepp

Duff and QuartersVideoCommentsDuff and Quarters: Time to get serious on concussion

Glen Quartermain and Mark Duffield believe the time has come to align AFL protocols with other contact codes, like boxing, and force players to have a month break after a concussion.

Josh Garlepp

Duff and QuartersVideoCommentsDuff and Quarters: WA GF the jackpot the AFL needs

WA’s hopes for a historic Perth grand final have gained momentum with communication between the AFL and the WA government putting a dent in Queensland’s pursuit of footy’s biggest day.

Josh Garlepp

Duff and QuartersVideoCommentsDuff and Quarters: We need the 9-point super-goal

Could multiple AFL issues be fixed with a footy freak-show favourite of the past, the nine-point super-goal?

Josh Garlepp

Duff and QuartersVideoDuff and Quarters: Is another Brayshaw headed west?

Perth already lays claim as the adopted home of the Andy Brayshaw at Fremantle and middle child Hamish at West Coast, but the eldest sibling Angus, may seek greener pastures at season’s end.

Josh Garlepp

Duff and QuartersVideoDuff and Quarters: Bunbury’s AFL bid

Regional WA has been snubbed by the AFL in recent years for showcase fixtures but Duff and Quarters have an idea to permanently bring the AFL to a footy heartland.

Josh Garlepp

Duff and QuartersVideoDuff and Quarters: Why can’t Blakely get a game?

Fremantle were held to just 16 points in a loss at home against Geelong, one player that may have helped the Dockers grunt in wet conditions is Connor Blakely.

Josh Garlepp

Duff and QuartersVideoDuff and Quarters: Resting healthy AFL superstars

The AFL’s jam-packed reshuffle sees 20-straight days of footy and multiple four-day breaks for teams creating the greatest necessity to manage player workloads ever witnessed in the league's history.

Josh Garlepp

Duff and QuartersVideoDuff and Quarters: ‘Freo will play finals next year’

The Dockers went down cross-town rivals West Coast by 31 points but Mark Duffield and Glen Quartermain believe there’s plenty to look forward to for Freo fans.

Josh Garlepp

Duff and QuartersVideoFreo’s historic win all but ignored by Victoria

37 points down, without Sean Darcy, Sam Sturt and their four best tall defenders - Fremantle mustered a famous win over St Kilda but the afterparty seemed to be contained to Western Australia.

Josh Garlepp

Quarter by QuarterPremiumNeale vs Crouch: Best AFL match-ups via surnames

There are 795 players on AFL lists this season — and some gems among them are a headline writer’s dream. These are the match-ups/team pairings Quarter by Quarter would like to see this season.

Glen Quartermain

Duff and QuartersVideoWA’s derby could be a ‘grand final audition’

With the AFL grand final likely to be moved, what better advertisement of Western Australia’s capability to host the event than a 60,000 person derby next weekend?

Josh Garlepp

Duff and QuartersVideoReturn of West Coast’s ‘brand’

Saturday’s bounce-back win for West Coast saw the re-emergence of the Eagles’ brand and perhaps a blueprint for their forward line of the future.

Josh Garlepp

Duff and QuartersVideoThe AFL should ‘pause’ to get their s*** together

Victoria’s second wave of coronavirus sent the AFL into a tailspin, with fixtures a week from now just as uncertain as those later in the season. So why not pause the season to get things right?

Josh Garlepp