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Darren Jarman

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Roy boys said:
It was on 7 mate so you should be able to get it. To be honest with you though i wouldn't go to any great trouble it was pretty average to watch to be honest.
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It would be worth the time invested getting the video just to see a single DJ pass - watching 2,3, 4 or more kicks would be absolute bonuses:thumbsu::thumbsu:
 
Gene Simmons said:
L or R foot, Jarman is the most skillful player I have seen!

I remember DJ hitting Dunstall on the chest with 50 metre stab passes running through the middle of Waverley Park... a skill that unfortunately doesn't exist these days!

While on the topic of skilfull kicks, I would add Benny Allan and Pritchard right up there as well! :thumbsu:
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He was a beautiful kick of the footy- but stab passes?? They went out in the 70s. In fact I think they were outlawed loooong before Jars came along.
 

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parsons nose said:
He was a beautiful kick of the footy- but stab passes?? They went out in the 70s. In fact I think they were outlawed loooong before Jars came along.
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Hell of a difference between a stab pass and a drop kick mate.
 
The great exponents of the drop kick and stab pass were beautiful to watch. Greater distance and accuracy. Problem was not too many could do it properly, hence the disappearance from the modern game.

Loved watching an old school mate develop into a top country league full back. He could kick out with a drop kick 60m on a bog track. 70-75m in the dry. Regular as clock work.

Sad to see it disappear.
 
arupist said:
The great exponents of the drop kick and stab pass were beautiful to watch. Greater distance and accuracy. Problem was not too many could do it properly, hence the disappearance from the modern game.

Loved watching an old school mate develop into a top country league full back. He could kick out with a drop kick 60m on a bog track. 70-75m in the dry. Regular as clock work.

Sad to see it disappear.
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I had a junior coach (also a handy country league backman) who used to hit us up regularly at training from sixty and we'd take it like hit by a bullet.

It was one skill that he did pass onto me quite easily (in that I never had the distance but could keep it low and hard) with the simple observation that you 'kicked with your eyes' - if you kept your head over the ball and didn't look up, your body followed your head.

Also very handy advice when water skiing.
 
The stab pass was an amazing kick. As a FF, I loved it. If the player hit it right, it would spear at you low and hard, and the FB had no chance of spoiling. I remember once a player belted a stab at me from 30 metres, it hit my chest so hard it knocked the wind out of me :)

DJ was the closest to a stab pass in the modern era as he would kick very low to the ground and that meant long distances without floating the ball in the air.
 
lickmerocks said:
Anyone recall the mark against the Eagles in front of the VFL members reserve? From a very scratchy memory I reckon it was over Monkey Brennan.
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I still remember the speccy he took in the goal square at Football Park vs Adelaide in 1993, RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. :p

Was our first win at Football Park and also my first Hawthorn game I saw live. I remember it like it was yesterday.
 
Adelaide Hawk said:
Speaking of the system today, when he left Hawthorn he was regarded by many as the best player in the game at the time. The year before we'd lost Ben Allan to Fremantle.

By today's standards, we would have received compensation that would have ensured Hawthorn competed for flags well into the 21st century, but instead we received SFA and drifted into oblivion.
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In fact we got a compensation pick for losing Ben Allan. We were all set to pick Matthew Lloyd but Essendon nabbed him with the pick before ours despite giving up a much lesser player. We picked up David McEwan, a 0-gamer. We could have picked up Steven King, who would have solved a few of our ruck problems in the coming years.

We got compensated for Jarman by way of a roundabout trade with Essendon and Adelaide - we ended up with Salmon, who rightly or wrongly made our team of the century, and pick 25 which we used to get 2000 B&F co-winner Daniel Chick.
 
grizzlym said:
Jesus, watching the game now. Jarman looks like a concrete trunk - he's huge and barrel-shaped. My god.
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That pretty much sums up my first thought when I saw him. It was shocking to see from a health perspective. On a morbid note I also almost felt like laughing. He looks so unrecognizable that I had to keep looking to see if I could believe it.

He was one of my favourite players in the league at both Hawthorn and Adelaide. Good to see he still has his sublime skills.
 

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Bedi said:
Just stumbled upon the Magic of Darren Jarman. His highlight reel is even better then I remember! Just a freak of nature. Cyril is the only one that compares

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Still one a my all time favourite players - I remember when we played at Princess Park and watching a Haw v WC game - Jars passed a 40 metre bullet pass to Dunstall that didn't go any higher than chest hieight and you could hear the thud into Dunstalls chest.

One of the best users of the ball left or right side that I have seen and I was deverstated when he left
 
Hawker1167 said:
Still one a my all time favourite players - I remember when we played at Princess Park and watching a Haw v WC game - Jars passed a 40 metre bull pass to Dunstall that didn't go any higher than chest hieight and you could hear the thud into Dunstalls chest.

One of the best users of the ball left or right side that I have seen and I was deverstated when he left
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I was devastated too, but for some reason he never made my hate list (which is long and petty), and features many a Hawk player who've defected.

What he did at Adelaide to win those flags off his own boot, twice! (plus the prelim against Bulldogs), is the single greatest solo effort in the history of the sport. But of course it's his heroics in the brown and gold that I'll always cherish.
 
I was at the age where still trying to perfect my kicking style, and I have to admit Jarman's probably been the biggest influence today... I haven't seen a better kick since... Of all the Hawks since, I'd say Suckling definitely shows traits of the Jarman kicking style across the body stab kick.
 
Gene Simmons said:
I was at the age where still trying to perfect my kicking style, and I have to admit Jarman's probably been the biggest influence today... I haven't seen a better kick since... Of all the Hawks since, I'd say Suckling definitely shows traits of the Jarman kicking style across the body stab kick.
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Buckenara was fricken awesome
 

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TheFourPillars said:
Buckenara was fricken awesome
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I agree that Bucky was a great kick for his time, however nowhere near jars in my opinion. Bucky was inconsistent and often missed targets. Jarman was ridiculous. The best kick on either side of the body I have ever seen. 92 in particular. Jarman to Dunstall

KOLOKOTRONIS
 
KOLOKOTRONIS said:
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I agree that Bucky was a great kick for his time, however nowhere near jars in my opinion. Bucky was inconsistent and often missed targets. Jarman was ridiculous. The best kick on either side of the body I have ever seen. 92 in particular. Jarman to Dunstall

KOLOKOTRONIS
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He was a very good field kick and a great set shot for goal. I still remember the echo of buckkkkyyyy from ayres and brereton down at training in glenferrie followed by the ball hitting them lace out
 
TheFourPillars said:
He was a very good field kick and a great set shot for goal. I still remember the echo of buckkkkyyyy from ayres and brereton down at training in glenferrie followed by the ball hitting them lace out
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I am not denying that he was outstanding. I just believe Jarman was on a completely superior level.

We are extremely lucky either way to have enjoyed watching these guys.

Amazing club.

KOLOKOTRONIS
 
Jars was my favourite player at Hawthorn and I was filthy when he left.

I've got a blown up photo somewhere of his hanger over Ayres and Turley on the members wing at Waverley.

One of my favourite goals of his was in the first Q of the 98 GF. He gathers the ball in the ponsford pocket, shakes Blakey, swings around on his left, is battered by Archer but somehow manufactures the perfect snap that splits the middle. It's is right in line with the camera too. I'll try to find it.
 

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