Player Watch #27: Jack Darling

[Junk yard]

Absolute rubbish from you, your phillips agenda is mind blowing. Mcdonald takes less than 1 contested grab a game and about 4 uncontested marks a game. The campaigner is hit lace out by players that can kick the ball. We have NONE, NO ONE. He’d be running around taking no marks up the wing, he has the agility of a train, he kicks joe the goose goals, he cant kick a set shot to win games. He’s a shit truck. He’d be on 400k a season and would have been off back home if he played for us.

If you call phillips shit, so is this *******

We'll see who has the better career.

 

[Junk yard]

System beats stars

You still need some sort of cattle to play to a system. We've got upwards of 15 spuds on our list, too many to hide.

 

[LB2Snake]

43 and 37 goals for Amartey and McDonald. McDonald works up the ground a fair bit too. Neither are shit trucks.

Couldn’t agree with this more. Work rate is great on both of them, but McDonald is flipping impressive to me.

 

[ferball]

Was in and out of the Sydney team a bit too and with our current list he would play every week.

**** ... if you think our disposal is bad now adding Ryan Clarke would make it infinitely worse.

 

[ferball]

All players perform better when they know their role.

Exhibit A is how the Dogs went from absolute basket case in 2014 to premiers two years later, with plenty of hacks.

On the other side of this, why were Dumont and Durdin not good enough for us but picked up games in better teams? Why did Polec fall over after leaving Port?

Polec didn't really fall over till round 8 2020.

 

[zoomba23]

Amazing how many best 22 players at successful clubs are somehow worse than our players

That's genuinely how a good system works. Player worth in isolation is different to a team system. Amartey(43 goals) would be significantly worse than Larkey for us imo. Ah Chee, Brisbane's most important player this finals series, would have a Zurhaar-level impact. Blokes at Geelong like Zach Guthrie, Humphries and Kolodjashnij would struggle.

 

[zoomba23]

Was in and out of the Sydney team a bit too and with our current list he would play every week.

You genuinely have no concept of how team structure and performances can elevate a player, do you. Ryan Clarke. Jesus Christ

 

[DocSholl]

That's genuinely how a good system works. Player worth in isolation is different to a team system. Amartey(43 goals) would be significantly worse than Larkey for us imo. Ah Chee, Brisbane's most important player this finals series, would have a Zurhaar-level impact. Blokes at Geelong like Zach Guthrie, Humphries and Kolodjashnij would struggle.

That's all well and good, but to use it as a criticism of a player is nonsense (and in the case of McDonald, it's a coping mechanism)

 

[Ischenko]

As opposed to giving Daisy Thomas and his busted ankle a 5 year big money deal and letting Eddie Betts go at the same time?

Betts only kicked another 350 goals, Mick.

Malthouse is senile. If he thinks it’s a bad idea then I’m backing Darling in for an AA guernsey

 

[Shagga is all Class]

Malthouse is senile. If he thinks it’s a bad idea then I’m backing Darling in for an AA guernsey

I might be senile but reading about Jack Lukosius makes Darling sound like a good deal.

Lukosius is reported to be on 1.9M over the next 2 seasons and is getting a 6 year deal. GC "expect a F1" from Port. His season was on a par with Darling, so marinating nicely given he is too young to be cooked.

 

[Better Loosen Up]

I might be senile but reading about Jack Lukosius makes Darling sound like a good deal.

Lukosius is reported to be on 1.9M over the next 2 seasons and is getting a 6 year deal. GC "expect a F1" from Port. His season was on a par with Darling, so marinating nicely given he is too young to be cooked.

In what way was Darling "on par" with Lukosius this year?

 

[Merlin007]

In what way was Darling "on par" with Lukosius this year?

Leaving aside the obvious age difference, they kicked the same number of goals; darling had more than twice the tackle count, more contested marks, more marks I50, more tackles I50; playing a bit more up the ground, Lukosius had more metres gained, more inside 50s, more rebound 50s. They both did some ruck work, Darling in the centre, Lukosius at stoppage

depends what metric you like to use to judge equivalence

 

[Heaps of fun]

Man I hate this move but I do have to tell myself that he's replacing deadwood. Personally I'd replace deadwood with someone less dessicated than 2025 Jack Darling

27

Jack Darling

Age

33

Ht

191cm

Wt

95kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.1

3star

K

7.9

3star

HB

4.2

3star

M

5.0

5star

T

3.0

5star

G

1.9

5star

D

8.0

2star

K

4.3

2star

HB

3.7

3star

M

2.7

3star

T

2.4

3star

G

1.3

5star

D

14.6

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

7.0

5star

M

6.0

5star

T

4.0

5star

G

1.4

5star

but there's a small chance we get slightly more out of our 46th player. #optimism

 

[buttox]

He's an upgrade on Sellers in the firsts.
Just looking at our delistings and assuming he's an in.
Granted that's a low bar but it is an improvement.
Now to rehire Micky Martin as an upgrade on biggie.
Only half joking.

 

[giantroo]

West Coast will trade Jack Darling to North Melbourne when the gates open next Monday, with pick 64 expected to be tabled by the Roos to get the deal done.

Darling will join on a two-year deal with a games trigger for a third season. – Callum Twomey

Clubs consider Clarry play, Giants explore Bomber interest, Giant calls coming - https://www.afl.com.au/news/1235642

 

[Heaps of fun]

Two years is nuts, has -30 games left in him.

 

[Liam Boy]

two with a trigger for a third? that's wild

 

[Flawed Genius]

If he's as shit as everyone claims he is, he won't go near hitting the trigger.

If he does, we've probably finished bottom four another two years running and we'll be begging for death anyway.

 

[The Nostradamus]

If he's as shit as everyone claims he is, he won't go near hitting the trigger.

If he does, we've probably finished bottom four another two years running and we'll be begging for death anyway.

Little did you know FG the trigger was just 2 games

 

[Flawed Genius]

Little did you know FG the trigger was just 2 games

If the trigger for a third season is to play one game in each of the other two seasons, Brady needs rooting with a pineapple.

But it won't be that so no pineapples have to be harmed.

 

[The Nostradamus]

If the trigger for a third season is to play one game in each of the other two seasons, Brady needs rooting with a pineapple.

But it won't be that so no pineapples have to be harmed.

Let’s hope it’s at the very least a 35 game trigger

Any less doesn’t warrant a 3rd year

 

[Makeshift Park]

Let’s hope it’s at the very least a 35 game trigger

Any less doesn’t warrant a 3rd year

I hope the trigger is helping the team reach an elimination final.

 

[zoomba23]

Trigger is dumb dumb no matter how we spin it. I hope its addition didn't involve insistence from Darling and that we're just incompetent. Incompetent is expected, but incompetent and spineless is tragic

 

[the big lebowski]

Well at least we can put to bed the notion that Simmo wasn’t positive in his view of bringing Darling in.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Well at least we can put to bed the notion that Simmo wasn’t positive in his view of bringing Darling in.

More importantly what is simmo doing next year

Bring him home