Mark Duffield

Perth

Sports Writer at CODE Sports

Sportswriter at Code Sports. Host of Mornings with Mark Duffield on SENWA

Articles

Four steps to improve the AFL using common sense

2 weeks ago | sen.com.au | Mark Duffield

So the AFL’s heavyweights have met with four heavyweight coaches in a Fitzroy bar on Monday night to discuss issues confronting the league after a nightmare fortnight where the league’s senior executive has been questioned and criticised more than once over its handling of key issues. As a person who knows this environment – and by this environment I mean Fitzroy pubs – I feel obligated to contribute to this discussion.
Duff: Selwood would have loved the fight Eagles showed

2 weeks ago | sen.com.au | Mark Duffield

Adam Selwood has died aged 41His death comes just months after his twin brother TroyThe AFL and clubs have paid tributeAdam won a flag with West Coast in 2006Let us deal first with the saddest news of this weekend. The death of Adam Selwood at the age of 41. It came on the heels of the death of his twin brother Troy.
Western NGOs: Saving Lives, or Just Regulating Death?

1 month ago | znetwork.org | Mark Duffield

For decades, the Western aid industry became ever more powerful in Sudan, even as it grew quieter about the reasons for underdevelopment. Rather than combat the root causes of poverty, NGOs served only to alleviate the number of deaths. During the second half of the 1980s, Oxfam ran an extensive food aid program among Beja nomads in Sudan’s arid Red Sea Hills. The Beja had lost around half of their cattle and sheep during the severe drought of 1984.
Mark Duffield

1 month ago | znetwork.org | Mark Duffield

For decades, the Western aid industry became ever more powerful in Sudan, even as it grew quieter about the reasons for underdevelopment.…
Western NGOs: Saving Lives, or Just Regulating Death?

1 month ago | jacobin.com | Mark Duffield

During the second half of the 1980s, Oxfam ran an extensive food aid program among Beja nomads in Sudan’s arid Red Sea Hills. The Beja had lost around half of their cattle and sheep during the severe drought of 1984. Based on extensive household and nutritional surveillance, Oxfam operated what was claimed to be a humanitarian “food for recovery” program. Using targeted food assistance, it promised, future stress sales of livestock could be prevented, thus helping the Beja to recover their herds.
Inactions have consequences: What soft Dockers must say about Longmuir

1 month ago | sen.com.au | Mark Duffield

The problem with the Dockers right now? Their trajectory. You know what is wrong with their trajectory? They don’t have one. They have allowed themselves to become a stagnant football club over two and a half seasons despite having one of the league’s most exciting lists. Justin Longmuir is the one with his job on the line here but this is on everyone at Fremantle from president Chris Sutherland and his board down to CEO Simon Garlick the footy department heads and the coaches and players.
Duff: Eagles have the most vulnerable list in the AFL

1 month ago | sen.com.au | Mark Duffield

You know the thing about rebuilds? They also have to be resets. At some point a club and its fans have to stop talking about how bad things are and start talking about how good they might be in the future. It is that time at West Coast. The club has talked about a new beginning. It is time to walk the new beginning.
Is Fyfe's career coming to a sobering end after WAFL injury?

1 month ago | sen.com.au | Mark Duffield

Fremantle champion Nat Fyfe has had another injury scare, with the veteran suffering a hamstring strain after a single quarter for Peel Thunder against South Fremantle at the weekend. I will put my hand up and say this is a completely selfish opinion coming from a person who has been an absolute admirer of Nathan over the course of his career. I don’t want to see a champion like Fyfe finish his time in the WAFL in between a series of injuries. The Dockers tried to build his load gradually.
Duffield: WA should not be a “cash cow” for greedy V'landys and NRL

1 month ago | sen.com.au | Mark Duffield

The West Australian this week reported on progress – if there has been any – in talks between the WA Government and the NRL over the possibility of a NRL team in Perth – a team that would almost certainly be a revival of the North Sydney Bears. There have been talks of a $65 million gap in the proposal put by the WA Government to NRL supremo Peter V'landys.
Duffield: Rock-bottom Eagles should be lower than 18th

1 month ago | sen.com.au | Mark Duffield

If there was a spot beneath 18th on the AFL ladder right now, the Eagles would be there. It's not just the fact that they're 0-5, it is not just the margins, which have been big in three of the five games. It's the way they are playing. It's the way they are not defending. It is the form of the senior players, it's also the form of their number one draft pick from last year, Harley Reid. It is the form of their captains, Oscar Allen and Liam Duggan.