Footscray have won their last 18 H&A games so it's not out of the question.
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Footscray have won their last 18 H&A games so it's not out of the question.
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Sam the man - great to see.
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Super excited to have Darcy. * me we are lucky. Pick 1 then pick 2 after playing in a GF
Don't you remember Scott West? He retired after Darcy
I suppose it was because I was under 10 when they all played and I was drawn to Luke as he was my favourite player.
I do remember westy though.
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Will Bevo do a Jamarra and make Darcy wait? Sam has the answer…
https://www.afl.com.au/news/689480/...7FU32VZwQD80ERMdwl2-8JY5OE2Ppywl3pwviLuir7UTU
https://www.afl.com.au/news/689480/...7FU32VZwQD80ERMdwl2-8JY5OE2Ppywl3pwviLuir7UTU
Didn’t take long how about the media * off
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Where do we see him playing? Ideally for us Sweet comes on and we’ve got the luxury of playing Timmy down forward and Darcy down back. Obviously a defender is one of our biggest needs and to have potential star quality there would be great. Imagine having a super athletic contested marking 205cm beast at either end of the ground?
With so much flexibility in the way that both can switch forward and back if things aren’t working out, plus the fact both are so athletic and we’re stacked with good smalls means we’re not top heavy.
There’s a swap for just about every game situation, Timmy on fire so you don’t want to move him to the ruck, Darcy can back up. Sweet getting smashed and we need more run in the game, sub him Tim into the ruck Darcy down forward etc
But then the other part of me wants Timmy to turn into the number one ruck we know he could be and us to put out one of the potentially greatest tall forward half set ups in history with peak Naughty/JUH the twin towers with English/Darcy the two mobile hybrid ruck/forwards chopping and changing. How the * does anyone stop that? It’d erase every bad memory we’ve ever had of not having a key forward at the dogs. Would need some improvement in our key defenders coming through, actually * it the ball won’t even go down there
With so much flexibility in the way that both can switch forward and back if things aren’t working out, plus the fact both are so athletic and we’re stacked with good smalls means we’re not top heavy.
There’s a swap for just about every game situation, Timmy on fire so you don’t want to move him to the ruck, Darcy can back up. Sweet getting smashed and we need more run in the game, sub him Tim into the ruck Darcy down forward etc
But then the other part of me wants Timmy to turn into the number one ruck we know he could be and us to put out one of the potentially greatest tall forward half set ups in history with peak Naughty/JUH the twin towers with English/Darcy the two mobile hybrid ruck/forwards chopping and changing. How the * does anyone stop that? It’d erase every bad memory we’ve ever had of not having a key forward at the dogs. Would need some improvement in our key defenders coming through, actually * it the ball won’t even go down there
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He'll get a game when he earns it, that's the Beveridge way. If the lad is anything like his father and grand father, he won't waste his talent chasing "influencers".
It will be interesting to see how it pans out. Do we play English and Darcy at either end of the ground and play a full time ruck? Or do we split ruck duties between them?
I guess it really depends on how Darcy develops. He could be our main ruck in 3 years time. A 205cm defender is an odd thing. He'd be good for the King brothers.
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Yeah at 205 and growing the club must be very tempted to develop him as a ruck fwd/ruck.
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Yep , head down arse up young fella ,
draft position matters not one jot from here !
We know that English is 207. He kept growing after getting drafted.
Forgot to include Schache who is now listed at 201. 4 players over 2 metres and a handful just under. So glad we are not undersized anymore. Was a perennial issue.
Darcy is going to be absolutely huge. And already has a big contested mark. Exciting.
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The 10 suits him. Will play plenty of games in that jumper.
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Sam D. listed as a key defender on the WB Website.
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And Tim O'Brien as a key forward.
Pretty sure that stuff on the club sites are made by afl.com. Which is why details like positions and sometimes even the photos are sometimes wrong. I wouldn't think too much about it.
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No, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Darcy start his career in defence. He was brilliant for the Chargers as an intercept marking defender early in 2021.
The club loves players who can play at both ends and Darcy has shown that as a junior.
Think of Ben King without the straight line pace but with serious agility for a 205cm player.
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I posted 'Go Sam' on facebook and they sent me a message saying that contravened their community guidelines. Am I safe to post this in here? What are they, freakin' GWS supporters?
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It's reassuring that international social media businesses are taking consumer safety seriously at last.I posted 'Go Sam' on facebook and they sent me a message saying that contravened their community guidelines. Am I safe to post this in here? What are they, freakin' GWS supporters?
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You need to question them. I got whole series of messages like that for totally innocuous comments, every comment I posted earned that message. It almost amounted to a ban. They soon reversed it after my protest. Their algorithms aren’t perfect!I posted 'Go Sam' on facebook and they sent me a message saying that contravened their community guidelines. Am I safe to post this in here? What are they, freakin' GWS supporters?
