Recommitted Darcy Parish - re-signed until 2028!

[citizen-erased]

5 more years of Parish probably feels more like the come down rather than the sugar.

i dont get this sentiment. Admittedly held by a lot of Dons supporters too.

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 cleearance & top 7 stoppage clearance
Top 10 for pressure acts and def 50 pressures acts

for a club who is garbage at the contested side of the game, losing their best contested player for a speculative pick that likely slides into the early teens would have been a disaster imo.

 

[citizen-erased]

Seems like a lose lose scenario.

Bombers fans frothing over the hope of a 1st round pick.
Parish hoping for a massive payday beyond his wildest dreams.

see post above.

 

[Joao]

i dont get this sentiment. Admittedly held by a lot of Dons supporters too.

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 cleearance & top 7 stoppage clearance
Top 10 for pressure acts and def 50 pressures acts

for a club who is garbage at the contested side of the game, losing their best contested player for a speculative pick that likely slides into the early teens would have been a disaster imo.

No doubt he has good stats, dude is a fantasy gun.

 

[citizen-erased]

No doubt he has good stats, dude is a fantasy gun.

he turns the ball over a bit. but so do a lot of guns.
If it was a top 5 pick, i think i could have handled it. once we finished where we did, holding him became a priority.

fantasy and stats aside, he's worth twice what the FA comp would have been, and who knows what we can draft with that.
Would have been a massive hole to fill.

 

[Joao]

he turns the ball over a bit. but so do a lot of guns.
If it was a top 5 pick, i think i could have handled it. once we finished where we did, holding him became a priority.

fantasy and stats aside, he's worth twice what the FA comp would have been, and who knows what we can draft with that.
Would have been a massive hole to fill.

I suppose, but the dude just doesn't feel like part of the solution to whatever your problem is.

 

[citizen-erased]

I suppose, but the dude just doesn't feel like part of the solution to whatever your problem is.

our problem is the ball goes inside 50 to no one then to defence too easily.
we have zero pressure in our fwd line and our backline isnt that good to stand up to it.

i'd also add the rest of our midfield is quite young.
caldwell is 22, Hobbs, 19, Tsatas 18.

Wright out for the bulk of the season and wasn't 100% when he returned.
Setterfield, Draper and Shiel missing half the season, plus Parish missing 6 odd weeks exposed us.
experience and match hardened bodies that form the core of our midfield

Add to that, we had most our side gassed by rd 17.
Fitness and Strength & Conditioning is our #1 issue at the moment.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Relief

 

[Libbaaaa]

Deal is fine for the cash. Not like anyone is banging down the door to take his spot in the midfield.

 

[Ambrosia]

Wonder if his price was held down because of a lack of offers or because Essendon didn't believe he had any real desire to leave

 

[TerryWallet]

Parish is a good player. Not shite, not a gun. Just good to occasionally very good. He is a stat machine, but the eye test doesn't match. Nobody would put him alongside his stat peers. He just hasn't got the intangibles.

And he just doesn't make a good midfield with the other pieces there. It just doesn't add up. Darcy's stats to his standing. Nor his fit alongside the other midfield.

 

[jakson68]

Was always going to stay and well done to Essendon for sticking fat with a fair offer.

I doubt whether offers were coming thick and fast from elsewhere.

 

[TheCatStevensExperience]

I hear there's a clause in the contract that if Essendon don't win a final in 3 years then he has to see out the last two years for being a goose and signing it

 

[HarryBeef]

Don't think Essendon were ever going to get band 1 compo tbh.

Thank you for your honesty about your own opinion

 

[Caligo]

Thank you for your honesty about your own opinion

Be fair, it seems like sometimes his opinion as represented here isn't honest.

 

[CCurnow3votes]

Parish is to vanilla, what Essendon is to mediocrity.

It’s a perfect match.

 

[Elmer_Judd]

Be fair, it seems like sometimes his opinion as represented here isn't honest.

????

 

[The Airing of Grievances]

I suppose, but the dude just doesn't feel like part of the solution to whatever your problem is.

You may be right but you're still missing the point. Whoever we drafted with the compensation we'd have received if he walked would be much more likely a downgrade than any solution to our problems.

 

[Joao]

You may be right but you're still missing the point. Whoever we drafted with the compensation we'd have received if he walked would be much more likely a downgrade than any solution to our problems.

I'm quite happy with my point but to each their own.