Player Watch #27: Jack Darling

[Horizons_00]

He busts his ass running all day no matter what

 

[Midas]

Just showing our players what it’s like to be consistent with effort.

 

[shinboner magic]

Just when I’ve had enough of this and want him dropped - he plays a second half like that.
Took a few important marks on the wing that allowed us to exit defence.

 

[King Hansen]

It's very quiet in here after he plays a good game but after a bad game, 5 pages get added on.

 

[Psychic Roo]

Strong game. Exactly what was asked of him.

 

[Flawed Genius]

Thought he kept us in it in the third.

6 touches 4 marks 1 goal.

 

[Blightys Barrel]

I wonder if we can run with Teakle, Darling and Xerri in the one side. Larkey cannot clunk a pack mark to save himself. JD being asked to ruck and also play this role on a 300 game motor is a lot to ask.

 

[shinboner magic]

I wonder if we can run with Teakle, Darling and Xerri in the one side. Larkey cannot clunk a pack mark to save himself. JD being asked to ruck and also play this role on a 300 game motor is a lot to ask.

Teakle is hardly vfl standard

 

[The Nostradamus]

I wonder if we can run with Teakle, Darling and Xerri in the one side. Larkey cannot clunk a pack mark to save himself. JD being asked to ruck and also play this role on a 300 game motor is a lot to ask.

We can and we should

 

[muttley45]

Can mark a wet ball

 

[Dinkers]

I wonder if we can run with Teakle, Darling and Xerri in the one side. Larkey cannot clunk a pack mark to save himself. JD being asked to ruck and also play this role on a 300 game motor is a lot to ask.

I wonder if we can swing around this iceberg said Cpt Smith of the Titanic. We won't be playing Teakle, Darling, Xerri & Larkey in the same side ever.

We have Comben who comes in when fit. W Dawson & Whitlock will be the ones after that. Darling I'd like to think is warming the seat for Dawson.

 

[Chadwiko]

Stood tall when it mattered. Good game.

 

[The Filth Wizard]

I think it's fair to say finally we won this trade.

 

[The Nostradamus]

 

[Black Diamond]

He is fully invested irrespective of our debates about his performances. A player who wanted to be wanted I reckon.

It’s a harsh game sometimes, but for WC not to get him to 300 in a season when they had nothing to celebrate must have hurt a bit.

Our own examples, this was a miss worse than us not having Stevens or Martyn go around for another season. Not sure about Stevo but Martyn was obviously hurt by it.

 

[showusyacunningt]

I wonder if we can run with Teakle, Darling and Xerri in the one side. Larkey cannot clunk a pack mark to save himself. JD being asked to ruck and also play this role on a 300 game motor is a lot to ask.

Definitely need a more legit 2nd ruck. JD competes, but we usually get hurt when he goes in there. We're also running big X into the ground.

 

[Makeshift Park]

We're also running big X into the ground.

Do you mean we should show more mercy to the ground?

 

[Dinkers]

He hasn't been flash but geez he was great against Freo, more of that please.

Was up and about marked everything, and that goal on the siren. Just hope he brings that against the Blues

 

[King Corey]

Yeh a decent recruit so far all things considered.

Was surprised how articulate and likeable he came across when we got him, imagined him to be a bit of a know but tar from it. Good guy.

 

[Devil Fish]

Always amazes me that we didn't draft Darling as a kid because he was a "bit of a wild child".

 

[Arthur Cloke]

Always amazes me that we didn't draft Darling as a kid because he was a "bit of a wild child".

Is that right?

 

[ferball]

Always amazes me that we didn't draft Darling as a kid because he was a "bit of a wild child".

Needed to be a real wild child before we'd consider him?

 

[My Left Foote]

Needed to be a real wild child before we'd consider him?

Interesting because at draft age he would have been just out of school, like real, real cool.

 

[Psychic Roo]

He is fully invested irrespective of our debates about his performances. A player who wanted to be wanted I reckon.

It’s a harsh game sometimes, but for WC not to get him to 300 in a season when they had nothing to celebrate must have hurt a bit.

Our own examples, this was a miss worse than us not having Stevens or Martyn go around for another season. Not sure about Stevo but Martyn was obviously hurt by it.

Would be handy for wc now. Been way better than expected for us.

 

[Blightys Barrel]

Would be handy for wc now. Been way better than expected for us.

Darling’s value is also off the track and how professional and hard he trains as a leader. I reckon a JD “stare” out on the ground or in a match, or on the training track from a +300 gamer still contributing carries a lot of currency. Same for Parker as well.