AFL Player 3: Darcy Parish - 'managed' 😱

[Beerfish]

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

 

[Gabe251]

Parish is staying. We're definitely at least winning a final this year

Damn, dude lol

 

[doug85]

Season is open enough and we've given ourselves a good chance to be there
12 more winnable games this year after this fortnight...and port is a 40/60 prospect.

This essendon just needs to keep turning up.

Ergh, i am unrecognisable from before Rd1. This optimism feels weird

I’ve looked at the draw and I can see us finishing in the lower parts of the 8. It means **** all though unless we can actually win a final or 2. Hopefully the list is healthy at the pointy end.

 

[citizen-erased]

I’ve looked at the draw and I can see us finishing in the lower parts of the 8. It means * all though unless we can actually win a final or 2. Hopefully the list is healthy at the pointy end.

Focus is finals wins but i think there's a priority ahead of that and its consistency across seasons

Twitter clock can mock all it likes but a finals win means nothing if we miss the following year

Tigers built a dynasty off breaking a finals win drought then winning a flag the same series.
Do need to do that. But if we win a final, id hope we're challenging hard in the next game and backing it up the season(s) after that.

 

[faible]

Trade him to Tassie for a kings ransom as their foundational star.

 

[Lore]

Trade him to Tassie for a kings ransom as their foundational star.

Tasmania will need advanced cryogenics in order for him to be a foundational star when they finally join the competition in 2028

Well unless he's one of those freaks that wins brownlows at 31

 

[ant555]

Jesus, we're unlikely to even make finals, let alone win one.

Hope you are wrong. My bank balance will be a lot better if we do But yes it will be a battle to get in. With the extra game you will most likely need 13 wins to get in.

 

[bombreys]

Us still being 4-5 years away from being a serious side, with the list we currently have, would be completely unacceptable. We have Merrett, Parish, Ridley, Wright, Langford, McGrath, Redman and Stringer in their primes, with guys like Caldwell, Setterfield, Durham, BZT, Martin, Perkins, Draper and Jones on the verge of entering their prime years, and lots of promising young talent beneath them. If we aren't aiming to challenge for top 4 by 2025 then you may as well trade half the list. Obviously pushing up the ladder is easier said than done, and we've had false dawns before.

I think letting Parish go would be dumb. We need to keep adding to the list we have right now, not shipping off our best players. We aren't at the beginning of a rebuild.

Top 4 in two years? Think that’s a big ask. Our list is only around average at the moment, with a lot of holes. We have a long way to go. Our spine especially is pretty ordinary.

 

[bombadeer]

Doesn’t really belong in the Parish thread, but context is everything.

Projections of Bombers top 4 within x years is obviously based on hope - not knocking that, but let’s not pretend it’s based on anything else at this point.

Hope is the supporters lifeblood.

In the cold light of day, bottom 4 is just as likely.

 

[Jobe Watson]

Top 4 in two years? Think that’s a big ask. Our list is only around average at the moment, with a lot of holes. We have a long way to go. Our spine especially is pretty ordinary.

Merrett will be 28 by the end of the year, Wright 27, Stringer 29 - we can't afford to spend another 4 years outside the top 8 not making progress. A lot will depend on how Reid and Cox develop over the next 2 years.

 

[Cup_o_Jobe]

Parish is pound for pound the best extractor in the league (and with this claim I'm proving his diminutive stature is at least good for something).

Still a lot of gaps in his defensive efforts, and his lack of intent in the footage of the Jezza fend-off is wince-inducing, but the best player in the league will make a lot of otherwise good players look silly this year, and on the whole Parish seems to be at least making an effort to buy in to the defensive team structure, which is promising to see.

 

[fairbump_playon]

Top 4 in two years? Think that’s a big ask. Our list is only around average at the moment, with a lot of holes. We have a long way to go. Our spine especially is pretty ordinary.

The hope suddenly feels less like blind hope and more hope that Wright, Reid, Cox, Tsatas and the Daveys all get on the park and fire

If that happens we are a top 4 side in another year.

 

[bombreys]

The hope suddenly feels less like blind hope and more hope that Wright, Reid, Cox, Tsatas and the Daveys all get on the park and fire

If that happens we are a top 4 side in another year.

I respect the positivity, I just don't think we're that close. That's a lot of hope to put on five guys (outside Wright) that have played a total of 33 AFL games between them. I definitely don't think we're top 4 next year, there are far more than 4 better sides than us. Top 8 would be amazing.

 

[ant555]

The hope suddenly feels less like blind hope and more hope that Wright, Reid, Cox, Tsatas and the Daveys all get on the park and fire

If that happens we are a top 4 side in another year.

Still need to see more leadership, personal wise and also the buy in when Scott has to introduce a bit more defense. Right now we are playing 90% of the offensive game plan we played in 2021 and a basic defensive plan. Our downfall under all coaches has been trying to introduce the next defensive step.
I like what Scott has done. It is a good basic plan but it will need a stage two.
We will also need the leadership to drive it and I am not buying we have the troops to cover it right now.

 

[Dudoro]

Can’t remember a Restricted Free Agent putting contract talks on hold till end of year and staying. (Apart from De Goey but that was bc of clauses in contract he never wanted to leave). Just got married reckon he’ll set up his life near Geelong.

 

[Lore]

Can’t remember a Restricted Free Agent putting contract talks on hold till end of year and staying. (Apart from De Goey but that was bc of clauses in contract he never wanted to leave). Just got married reckon he’ll set up his life near Geelong.

Merrett 2021

Also no one said end of the year. They've just said "let the footy do the talking". Will be concerned if we get to July and they aren't even at the table to negotiate.

 

[Seb78]

Can’t remember a Restricted Free Agent putting contract talks on hold till end of year and staying. (Apart from De Goey but that was bc of clauses in contract he never wanted to leave). Just got married reckon he’ll set up his life near Geelong.

If that's the road he takes, then all the best to him. I personally would not bat an eyelid over it.

Redman is the must sign for mine.

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[Dudoro]

Merrett 2021

Also no one said end of the year. They've just said "let the footy do the talking". Will be concerned if we get to July and they aren't even at the table to negotiate.

Actually Merrett signed mid year. And yes Parish said end of year in an interview with Twomey.

 

[BrunoV]

Dat ball use.

37 disposals maybe 12 of which found a teammate and 3 of those were pure hack kicks.

He should give half of his pay check to Draper for the silver service that pads his clearance numbers.

 

[Lore]

Actually Merrett signed mid year.

We're currently in early May.

In May 2021, Zach Merrett was out of contract, and was quoted as follows:

In a candid interview with the Herald Sun, Merrett said he'd "like to see another few months" of consistent footy from his team in order for him to re-commit long term.​

Dons refusing to press Merrett on new contract

'We feel really comfortable with what he's doing'

wwos.nine.com.au

May + a few months = very close to the end of the season.


With the benefit of hindsight, we know he signed before the end of June. But this time that year, he was saying things about waiting for a long time to make up his mind too.

And the more poignant answer to your question about a free agent who stayed at the last possible minute is Andrew Gaff. and boy did that cause some meltz

And yes Parish said end of year in an interview with Twomey.

Do you have a link and a quote? I can't find "end" anywhere. "later/deeper into the season", but not "end".

Best I can find from Twomey is as follows, dated March:

"ESSENDON star Darcy Parish is expected to wait until deeper into the season before opening contract talks as he enters the year as the game's No.1 free agent.​

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The 2021 All-Australian is out of contract at the end of this season and will hold on jumping into discussions on a new deal as the Bombers' new era under coach Brad Scott takes shape."​

And then from today, a quote from Parish's manager, in an article by Beveridge:

"Darcy's having a really good start to his season," Rous said.​

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"He's someone who is pretty relaxed with it all. He's just focusing largely on his footy and it's something we'll address later on in the season. It just gives you that chance to get a bit more information about everything. But so far, so good. It's quite positive."​

'So far, so good': Talks positive as gun Bomber weighs up free agency call

Darcy Parish's manager says the star midfielder is feeling relaxed as he decides on his next contract

www.afl.com.au

Words matter. No use stirring up a panic because someone said something when they actually didn't, and most especially when nothing out of the ordinary or particularly concerning has happened yet.

Parish never signs a contract this early in the year, and 'deeper' or 'later' doesn't mean he's going to wait until September any more than Merrett did. And even IF he did, Andrew Gaff.

 

[ant555]

Belief, trust the key for Bombers’ progression

Parish resolute in Dons’ burgeoning system.

www.essendonfc.com.au

Unless they really low ball him I doubt he is looking to go anywhere else.

 

[NAB777]

F%$#$

 

[Pweter]

All those that want him gone will now see how we function without him in the current setup.

In fact we all will whether we want him to stay or not. Did a calf at training.

Injury update: Parish ruled out of Brisbane clash

Dons midfielder to miss Lions fixture.

www.essendonfc.com.au

 

[Lore]

Injury update: Parish ruled out of Brisbane clash

Dons midfielder to miss Lions fixture.

www.essendonfc.com.au

 

[windyhill]

Sore calf, taking country week too far Darce.

 

[Wahooti Fandango]