AFL Player # 3: Darcy Parish - Late out with calf tightness - 19/5

[Beerfish]

Contract Status: Unrestricted free agent 2028 or 2029
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 18, doug85

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Yes. I don't understand why this is such a difficult concept to grasp.

If you're small, not quick and are not elite by foot, unless you're an outlier freak like Neale, you're s**t. Your impact will never equate to anything particularly meaningful.

Think you are way off here.

There were plenty of times that Darc won the hard ball and got it into our possession.

There are levels between Superstar and s**t..........

 

[jmoo wan]

One of our best players?

Is that the same guy we promoted sideways to get him out of the midfield department at the same time that we became a better team?

so his move made us a better team? that’s a good thing right?

did you just forget this is a team sport?

 

[ghostdog]

I don’t think anyone could have predicted Durham’s rise this year.

Ahem.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

One of our best players?

Is that the same guy we promoted sideways to get him out of the midfield department at the same time that we became a better team?

is this going to be your Waterloo, Bruno?

 

[NAB777]

Ahem.

Interest rate predictions, please

 

[cobra land]

You people forget that this is a team sport.

Individual performance is not relevant except to the extent that it makes the team better.

A team sport until Parish is mentioned then it's the individuals fault ?

Fact, we are a better team when Parish is playing well !

 

[ghostdog]

Interest rate predictions, please

Sadly, I'm more invested in footy.

 

[hurlygurdy]

One of our best players?

Is that the same guy we promoted sideways to get him out of the midfield department at the same time that we became a better team?

Parish reads the play at an elite level, and maximises that attribute with fitness and work ethic. Players like him are the glue to players like Durham who are the structure. You want both.
It’s common knowledge we’ve been missing structure in the midfield but it doesn’t follow that you throw baby face out with the bath water

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Ahem.

DM me lotto numbers

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Bruno you have dug so deep you just need to keep on digging eih.

 

[Don Won]

There would be a number of players in the league that I would straight swap Parish for, but it wouldn’t be more than 100 players, and I doubt it would be more than 40 midfielders.

The reality is Parish has his physical limitations, but he also has some weapons including the ability to get the ball (which is second only to getting the ball and using the ball well). He has also been developed very badly and allowed to focus too heavily on his strengths without balancing out his limitations. I think that he is/they are working on weaknesses based on preseason commentary, and I’m hoping to see a better version of him - on Saturday he certainly looked like he was playing more for the group than himself. Time will tell.

 

[outersanctum]

Must admit.. I've been a big Parish fan and never really understood the hate. Clearly the injury impacted him to start the year and he is building into it.

FWIW.. try meandering over to footywire and putting Parish and Caldwell up together. Parish leading in almost every statistic category. DE and Clangers are not favouring Parish.. but right now this entire board seems to think Caldwell is the 2nd coming and we are ready to throw Parish off the train.. it makes absolutely zero sense to me.

I realise that you do the same comparison with Durham and Parish still comes out on top.. oh wait maybe there is something to that.

Stats aren't everything and nor should they be.. but anyone who can't see how good Parish has been and is.. I think you have blinkers on. Fully expect that by the time of the end of the season comes.. Parish will again be our #2 midfielder behind Merrett.

How about we just be thankful that we now have a midfield that has a mix of styles, speed, sizes and that actually makes it dangerous. Now to find a ruck...

 

[dank420_]

but anyone who can't see how good Parish has been and is.. I think you have blinkers on.

It's just one bloke really

 

[Agronomus]

Is it because he keeps getting played in the same midfield as Merrett? He's like the outside midfielder's outside midfielder.

 

[Agronomus]

Must admit.. I've been a big Parish fan and never really understood the hate. Clearly the injury impacted him to start the year and he is building into it.

FWIW.. try meandering over to footywire and putting Parish and Caldwell up together. Parish leading in almost every statistic category. DE and Clangers are not favouring Parish.. but right now this entire board seems to think Caldwell is the 2nd coming and we are ready to throw Parish off the train.. it makes absolutely zero sense to me.

I realise that you do the same comparison with Durham and Parish still comes out on top.. oh wait maybe there is something to that.

Stats aren't everything and nor should they be.. but anyone who can't see how good Parish has been and is.. I think you have blinkers on. Fully expect that by the time of the end of the season comes.. Parish will again be our #2 midfielder behind Merrett.

How about we just be thankful that we now have a midfield that has a mix of styles, speed, sizes and that actually makes it dangerous. Now to find a ruck...

The trouble is who's our whipping boy now?

 

[brain taylor]

gettin peckish might have a nibble on my own words

 

[ghostdog]

The trouble is who's our whipping boy now?

I suspect it's ADJ. He has played 15 games, after all.

 

[Agronomus]

I suspect it's ADJ. He has played 15 games, after all.

Yeah. Never won a rising star either

 

[ghostdog]

Yeah. Never won a rising star either

Delist and be done with it.

 

[boncer34]

It's just one bloke really

84859300

 

[The Devils Advocate]

He's our fourth best player behind Merrett, Martin and Ridley. Probably on par with Redman IMO. No idea what old friend Brunov is parping.

 

[84859300]

84859300

I'm not his biggest fan.

It was a servicable game from him on Sunday, versus a bottom 4 team.

No complaints from me this week.

 

[boncer34]

I'm not his biggest fan.

It was a servicable game from him on Sunday, versus a bottom 4 team.

No complaints from me this week.

Oh come on. It's no fun sparring if you just raise your hands.

 

[84859300]

Oh come on. It's no fun sparring if you just raise your hands.

I DID say it was against a bottom 4 team.

I'm not smart enough to leave you without an in somewhere...

Now it's your turn to come back and tell me that "it would have been at least a 120 Supercoach score game against a Geelong or Swans". It practically writes itself!

 

[Nicholas61]

Wasn't a big fan in recent seasons but conceded he was tackling much better last year but wasn't happy with defensive positioning as well as the turnovers when running forward with low pressure which ended up being murderous and game changing, or at the least undid the good work he did. The defensive positioning has improved this year (first really noticed this in the Adelaide match where he had their midfielders at times rushing their kicks) and I think his kicking looks better after working with Rath but would need to see more to be definitive on that. Training watchers reckoned his kicking did look much improved pre season.

He doesn't need to be everything (98% aren't) but as long as he complements others and keeps going like the last couple of weeks and in big games (doesn't even need to get near the crazy stats he got on the weekend) I will be very happy - he becomes the player he would have been if drafted by a far more professional outfit than we have been. His clean and quick hands really setup some forward thrusts with the time that extra second buys and I think that aspect gets underestimated in terms of its value.