AFL Player # 3: Darcy Parish - Calf setback, another 2 weeks - 4/6

[Beerfish]

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

 

[jmoo wan]

Won't be Hobbs.. calf as well.

i read Hobbs was modelling his game on Parish but this is taking things too far

 

[bombreys]

Won't be Hobbs.. calf as well.

Shocking timing for poor Hobbsy. Hopefully we see Eli get a few minutes in the middle (please not sub )

 

[Rick Ross]

As someone else said, I wouldn't be surprised if they're restructuring his game to make it more team focused. Any major change like that is going to be one step forward and 2 steps back until it all clicks into place.

I get where you're coming from, I used to feel similarly towards Parish. But Scott has the team playing good team footy, and if he can get Parish to buy into the team structure while eventually getting the best out of him it will be a win win.

I must admit I don't have any of those moments where I feel Parish is just seagulling possessions off other players, or kicking it straight down the throat of the opposition when he's in the clear, so something has definately changed for the better.

In a team with a lot of obvious player development, I think this makes Parish the hardest to assess. Plenty of others are developing in ways that pass the eye test (game influence) and stats test (more whatevers). Parish looks to be playing a much more team oriented role (which is hard to see at times & confirm) and with reduced stats (maybe reduced stats padding).

If that’s true, having him playing a clear role in a deep midfield is the dream.

 

[Agronomus]

brilliant! heck the haters Bruno - you do you!

Who hates Bruno?!
The man understands footy principles and philosophies not just stats and semantics. Love you man

 

[fairbump_playon]

Hey is really like to just circle back to that very interesting and all too brief preseason conversation

My question is to what extent do people believe soft tissue injury is avoidable.

Eg is Parish doing a hamstring a sign the training loads were out of wack, or just a bad bit of luck.

 

[jmoo wan]

Who hates Bruno?!
The man understands footy principles and philosophies not just stats and semantics. Love you man

look he may not be the best poster on here, or have any elite attributes but he is incredibly important to the structure of this board- we really miss him when is is away for an extended period.

he’s like the Darcy Parish of this board

 

[Agronomus]

look he may not be the best poster on here, or have any elite attributes but he is incredibly important to the structure of this board- we really miss him when is is away for an extended period.

he’s like the Darcy Parish of this board

Just a very vanilla poster

 

[yodellinhank]

Hey is really like to just circle back to that very interesting and all too brief preseason conversation

My question is to what extent do people believe soft tissue injury is avoidable.

Eg is Parish doing a hamstring a sign the training loads were out of wack, or just a bad bit of luck.

I don't believe in anything.

 

[fairbump_playon]

I don't believe in anything.

That’s a doctrine in itself

4 points is 4 points though right?

 

[jdstorm]

That’s a doctrine in itself

4 points is 4 points though right?

I wouldn’t say so.

Not for those who value process over results

 

[TheGrizz]

It is good to see Darce isnt around to hold our young midfield back from being * checks notes * minus-24 in total clearances the past two weeks against the 17th and 18th teams on the ladder.

 

[Westlo]

I think by barely beating 17th and 18th place without him, it has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that Parish is no longer needed.

 

[ghostdog]

Missing his run and link up work. He obviously attracts his share of attention as well because the others are clearly struggling.

 

[SpeckieMcVeigh]

We miss him so damn much. It's no secret we've been smashed in the middle in the games he's missed.

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

Unlike Perkins at least he has a thirst for the pill. Have missed him in that sense.

 

[TheGrizz]

So Rowell and Anderson have had 16 clearances between them today, and we are minus-21 in total clearances since Darcy's injury.

This whole 'not letting him get in the way of our young midfielders' thing is going grouse.

 

[bennyg12]

Need back asap

 

[cobra land]

So Rowell and Anderson have had 16 clearances between them today, and we are minus-21 in total clearances since Darcy's injury.

This whole 'not letting him get in the way of our young midfielders' thing is going grouse.

The Parish bashers have gone quiet !!, hopefully the clowns on here knocking him will now STFU....

 

[jmoo wan]

So Rowell and Anderson have had 16 clearances between them today, and we are minus-21 in total clearances since Darcy's injury.

This whole 'not letting him get in the way of our young midfielders' thing is going grouse.

he's injured mate - he's unable to play

 

[DERO]

Back next week?

 

[bennyg12]

Back next week?

Really hope so

 

[The Prosecutor]

Back next week?

Latest injury report still has him 3-4 weeks so looks like post-bye.

 

[Westlo]

So Rowell and Anderson have had 16 clearances between them today, and we are minus-21 in total clearances since Darcy's injury.

This whole 'not letting him get in the way of our young midfielders' thing is going grouse.

Last years vs Suns Darce gets 30 touches, 6 tackles, 11 clearances and 3 brownlow votes... would've been handy today.

 

[joey_jo_jo]

The Parish bashers have gone quiet !!, hopefully the clowns on here knocking him will now STFU....

Parish and draper have a lot of knockers but missing them both atm, as well as duursmas run.

 

[Pweter]

The Parish bashers have gone quiet !!, hopefully the clowns on here knocking him will now STFU....

You know how it'll work.

1. He'll have a quietish 1st game back
2. The sharks will start to circle
3. Then he'll have a very solid team focused game
4. The sharks will find excuses to say it was a shit game
5. He'll then have a belter of a game
6. There must be some orcas in the vacinity as the sharks have vanished
7. Then he'll have an average game with a couple of bad clangers
8. The sharks will circle again wondering what his trade value is.