Paul Duffield (born 5 February 1985) is a former professional

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er who played for the

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in the

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(AFL). He plays mainly as a half back flanker and began his football career at

South Fremantle Football Club South Fremantle Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Fremantle, Western Australia. The club plays in the Western Australian Football League (WAFL) and the WAFL Women's (WAFLW), commonly going by the nickname the ''Bulldogs ...

in the

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Fremantle Dockers

Selected in the rookie draft at the

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, he is a medium-sized defender who spent the 2004 and 2005 seasons on the rookie list, playing for South Fremantle. The nephew of

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newspaper sports journalist Mark Duffield, he was a member of South Fremantle's 2005 premiership team. His father, Wayne and uncles Brett and Mark, were all successful country footballers. Due to the AFL rules restricting rookies to a maximum of two years before being elevated or delisted, Duffield was delisted at the end of the 2005 season. However, Fremantle reselected him in the 2005 rookie draft. Duffield made his AFL pre-season debut against Collingwood in the quarter-final and also played in the semi-final loss to Geelong. On 19 April 2006, it was announced that Duffield had been elevated to the senior list as a replacement for

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, who had injured his

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the previous weekend playing for

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. Duffield then made his debut a week later against St Kilda in the controversial game at

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. At Fremantle he was allocated guernsey number 41. After playing in the last six games in 2008, Duffield cemented his spot in the Fremantle team in 2009, only missing one game. He finished fourth in the club's

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award. In 2010 he was selected in the

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for the

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against Ireland. Duffield announced his retirement at the conclusion of the 2015 season. Duffield is an

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and was School Captain in his final year, 2002.

Statistics

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2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

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2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

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2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

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2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

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2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

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2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

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2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

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2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

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2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Duffield, Paul People educated at Aquinas College, Perth 1985 births Living people Fremantle Football Club players South Fremantle Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Western Australia People from Darkan, Western Australia Peel Thunder Football Club players Australia international rules football team players 21st-century Australian sportsmen