AFL Player # 3: Darcy Parish - Strained calf (again), out for (another) month - 11/4

[Beerfish]

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

 

[Milanista28]

I never doubted him , Hope he signs for around 800k

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

Good to see. 12 years please

 

[MiguelM]

Not sure how that makes their opinion invalid . Not like the club has a long record of making the right decisions. I have floated the trade idea personally as far as long term list discussion goes but my mail has always been he would be staying and the club had zero interest in trades. They just have to make sure they get the right blokes around him to allow him to do what he does best.

Definitely better when Setterfield is around.

Parish back to gun status this year in my book. Looked jaded;disinterested last year (like most of the list)

 

[DapperDon]

Anyone checked on eth?

He already penciled in that pick 13 we would have got as compo as his boy.

 

[eth-dog]

Parish is a very good player. Hopefully he can start running defensively now too.

 

[DERO]

Not sure how that makes their opinion invalid . Not like the club has a long record of making the right decisions. I have floated the trade idea personally as far as long term list discussion goes but my mail has always been he would be staying and the club had zero interest in trades. They just have to make sure they get the right blokes around him to allow him to do what he does best.

Carn man.

 

[DERO]

Parish is a very good player. Hopefully he can start running defensively now too.

That’s the spirit!

 

[katana]

would rather his role was to be split by players who're either dangerous going forward or gun defensive runners. parish is not really either. amazing at accruing the ball. maybe one of the best i've seen. but not really sure that implicitly helps a side win games. perkins can get better at hunting the ball, stringer is never going run defensively (though he can blockade physically). are we going to drop stringer from the centre rotation? or teach him to work as a forward?

would much rather have a look at the midfield we saw on the weekend + setterfield than sink 800k-ish into and go back to parish getting epic stats every week while we are beaten around the ball.

do any recent premiers (or even grand finalists) have a player like him in their team?

 

[Lore]

Parish is a very good player. Hopefully he can start running defensively now too.

He was before he got injured hopefully he hasn't forgotten how

 

[Lance Uppercut]

Sorry I'm not quite getting it. Can you simplify it even more?

Yep: Parish isn't quite perfect, so we should let him go and just draft someone who is

 

[Old Campaigner]

Not getting a couple of draft picks for him is going to make trade period really boring for the trade hypothetical nuffs

 

[dank420_]

Yep: Parish isn't quite perfect, so we should let him go and just draft someone who is

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No one is perfect. We have learned this the hard way.

 

[Pweter]

Yep: Parish isn't quite perfect, so we should let him go and just draft someone who is

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100%, because young is better than good. Everyone knows that.

 

[DERO]

Yep: Parish isn't quite perfect, so we should let him go and just draft someone who is

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Is… shiny and new? The next Aaron Francis? The next Richard Tambling? A midfielder that can defend but can’t midfield? A half back flanker?

I’m warming to the idea.

 

[VelvetSledge]

No one is perfect. We have learned this the hard way.

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I hate this photo so much

 

[Lance Uppercut]

100%, because young is better than good. Everyone knows that.

Yep, it's obvious!

 

[ant555]

Yep: Parish isn't quite perfect, so we should let him go and just draft someone who is

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Would be a sheltered workshop of a forum if everyone simply followed the same line and did not actually want to discuss something outside the common opinion.

 

[Lore]

Would be a sheltered workshop of a forum if everyone simply followed the same line and did not actually want to discuss something outside the common opinion.

There’s nuanced and varied discussion and then there’s the 3 week football memory, obsession with youth and overrating of draft picks that seems to monopolise many discussions…

 

[BrunoV]

Yep: Parish isn't quite perfect, so we should let him go and just draft someone who is

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Another one who would listen to commentary rather than believe his lying eyes.

 

[ant555]

There’s nuanced and varied discussion and then there’s the 3 week football memory, obsession with youth and overrating of draft picks that seems to monopolise many discussions…

Still have to have them all to make the forum tick.
I would argue some of the responses to well explained theory fall under the same banner as the three week footy memory stuff.
Some of the recent above is proof.

 

[DERO]

When you say "well explained theory", you really mean your opinion, yeah?

 

[ant555]

When you say "well explained theory", you really mean your opinion, yeah?

What does it matter. Theory or opinion. That is what the forum is about. If there are no opinions then what are we discussing. The fact that you do not come close to agreeing does not make it wrong for people to throw it out there. I stand by everything I have said about the subject.

 

[Saddlemanbags]

The midfield is deep, trading him to balance out the list makes sense to me

 

[DapperDon]

No one is perfect. We have learned this the hard way.

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Still would

 

[DapperDon]

The midfield is deep, trading him to balance out the list makes sense to me

It's really not that deep at all. As shown with 2 injured midfielders