AFL Player # 3: Darcy Parish

[Beerfish]

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

 

[Algorithmic Hot Takes]

This is a tremendous victory for all of those who would prefer to keep a player they're attached to over being a good side.

Meh, if he went, I wouldn't have cared too much. He's not that different from others moving through the midfield. But if he didn't cost the Earth...and is committed.

 

[Zach Package]

Consider the cap floor, met.

 

[dank420_]

This is a tremendous victory for all of those who would prefer to keep a player they're attached to over being a good side.

hey mate nice melt

 

[justlookingaround]

someone post the Ben Cousins comparison

 

[jmoo wan]

someone seems angry about it

 

[BratPack]

So our next finals appearance will be in 2029.

Great.

 

[Schnitzengruben]

<insert melt here>

 

[citizen-erased]

Posted in his thread on the Draft board.

Consider, we're a bottom 3 contested/pressure side.

Parish's stats;
Top 3 for clearances. His peers in the top 5 - libba, bont, rowell, neale.
Top 3 for disposals with Daicos & Green. Serong and Oliver behind. Only Daicos has better DE.
7th for contested possessions, ahead of Cripps, Neale, Tracc, Kelly, LDU.
Leading Centre clearance & top 7 stoppage clearance
Top 10 for pressure acts and def 50 pressures acts

in a year he sustained a bad injury.

Once we finished outside the bottom 4-5, it became a non-negotiable to keep him for mine.
If we so desperately want a pick in the early teens, i reckon we can trade up to one and lose less in the process.

 

[mike14]

So our next finals appearance will be in 2029.

Great.

How do you figure? We've made the finals 3 times while Parish is here...


When we actually win another final is anyone's guess

 

[Squeaky]

Posted in his thread on the Draft board.

Consider, we're a bottom 3 contested/pressure side.

Parish's stats;
Top 3 for clearances. His peers in the top 5 - libba, bont, rowell, neale.
Top 3 for disposals with Daicos & Green. Serong and Oliver behind. Only Daicos has better DE.
7th for contested possessions, ahead of Cripps, Neale, Tracc, Kelly, LDU.
Leading Centre clearance & top 7 stoppage clearance
Top 10 for pressure acts and def 50 pressures acts

in a year he sustained a bad injury.

Once we finished outside the bottom 4-5, it became a non-negotiable to keep him for mine.
If we so desperately want a pick in the early teens, i reckon we can trade up to one and lose less in the process.

This highlights the contradiction that is Parish.
He does stuff that not many can do - well, no one in our shit show team. He leads all our contested footy stats etc by a mile.
He can definitely play - but your eye tells you he has played a shocker when he sprays relatively easy kicks, or his man goes charging out the other way.
I hope we can utilise his talents better.

 

[windyhill]

Meh, if he went, I wouldn't have cared too much. He's not that different from others moving through the midfield. But if he didn't cost the Earth...and is committed.

Agree with this, I’m neither here nor there.

 

[citizen-erased]

This highlights the contradiction that is Parish.
He does stuff that not many can do - well, no one in our s**t show team. He leads all our contested footy stats etc by a mile.
He can definitely play - but your eye tells you he has played a shocker when he sprays relatively easy kicks, or his man goes charging out the other way.
I hope we can utilise his talents better.

part of being a ball hunter means you roll the dice on your man going the other way. was very evident v Freo and the paddock Serong had.
But that's where the team defence is the issue rather than Parish. You don't want a 100% stagnant midfield waiting to respond to their man

Parish is an elite contested ball & clearance player. What we lost was 2 key compliments in Draper and Setterfield that played the defensive stoppage role.
At our best this year it was those, plus Merrett, and Caldwell rolling through

we need our fitness and conditioning up to make use of what i think is a perfectly decent midfiield
And a sharp focus on how we enter our F50.
too little pressure and we let oppositions flood back too much and rebound too easily.

 

[BrunoV]

This highlights the contradiction that is Parish.
He does stuff that not many can do - well, no one in our s**t show team. He leads all our contested footy stats etc by a mile.
He can definitely play - but your eye tells you he has played a shocker when he sprays relatively easy kicks, or his man goes charging out the other way.
I hope we can utilise his talents better.

He leads our loose ball gets by a mile.

 

[Squeaky]

part of being a ball hunter means you roll the dice on your man going the other way. was very evident v Freo and the paddock Serong had.
But that's where the team defence is the issue rather than Parish. You don't want a 100% stagnant midfield waiting to respond to their man

Parish is an elite contested ball & clearance player. What we lost was 2 key compliments in Draper and Setterfield that played the defensive stoppage role.
At our best this year it was those, plus Merrett, and Caldwell rolling through

we need our fitness and conditioning up to make use of what i think is a perfectly decent midfiield
And a sharp focus on how we enter our F50.
too little pressure and we let oppositions flood back too much and rebound too easily.

Agree entirely! This is where things started to go south!
Our world for another grunt midfielder

Also agree on the F50 entries - we are horrid!

 

[bombadeer]

someone seems angry about it

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I think you will find that is the triumph emoji… and yes, I’m slightly ashamed that I know this.

 

[jmoo wan]

I think you will find that is the triumph emoji… and yes, I’m slightly ashamed that I know this.

ah gotcha - i’ll give you a clap for that:

 

[citizen-erased]

Agree entirely! This is where things started to go south!
Our world for another grunt midfielder

Also agree on the F50 entries - we are horrid!

Weid was new
Wright was out, Stringer was out, Jones was out.
We spun the likes of Guelfi, Davey, Menzie, Snelling, Caldwell, Hobbs, Shiel, even Merrett down there.
Even Martin went fwd.
Perkins was in and out covering midfield gaps.

if you watched us live, the fwd line was a shambles. Not helped by losing a good line coach too.

 

[cobra land]

He leads our loose ball gets by a mile.

As do you, the "loose" supporter, you must be a joy to live with...

 

[VexOh]

Sigh

 

[ant555]

This is a tremendous victory for all of those who would prefer to keep a player they're attached to over being a good side.

Well it will keep you supplied with plenty of material for the next 5 years

 

[Algorithmic Hot Takes]

Agree entirely! This is where things started to go south!
Our world for another grunt midfielder

Also agree on the F50 entries - we are horrid!

I was thinking he'd slot in nicely to an contending team that had a big body or two. I guess the doggies don't need him as they've got Libba, but there are teams there with big hulks moving through midfield that he'd compliment nicely. We need Setters., Tsatas on the gear naturally maturing, or bring in a big body.

 

[mike ross]

Apart from the money I think what a poor bastard

 

[the PILL]

 

[maskmcgee]

boo

 

[Ati Tude]

He has some things to work on. Glad it is 5 years rather than more. But he does elite things and not many in our side can say that. We had to keep him. Glad we have. If he left, we'd have pick 12 or so for him and we would do far worse with it let alone the time for that player to develop.