Toast Fremantle's 2nd 2016 National Draft Pick: Sean Darcy [Pick #38]

[masai]

Playing for Collingwood helps

+ having a "puncy" hairstyle helps you stand out.

Dairy farmers don't have time for "prettying" themselves up, .............. run through player, pick up the leather and boot the air out of !!!. Simple farmers boys edict.

 

[Schauermann]

Brodie Grundy had good first year stats as a 19 year old in 2013. Not as many hit outs as Sean but maybe better around the ground stats. He, of course, got a rising star nom in his 5th game for his body of work.

Pretty the same except hitouts:

Grundy vs Darcy

Hitouts 21.57 vs 34.00
Disposals 12.57 vs 12.25
Goals 0.14 vs 0.13
Clearances 2.43 vs 2.63
Tackles 3.14 vs 4.50
Contested possessions 7.43 vs 7.13

Forgot about Grundy actually. Pretty similar first season. Grundy as well played as lone ruck in 6 out 7 games with mostly only Quinten Lynch as backup.

 

[Clems Knee]

Darcy had a match winning last quarter in the second semi-final today.

Prior to the draft, only 6 phantom drafts (out of 76 that I recorded) had Darcy getting selected at all. He was the biggest draft bolder in the draft, well ahead of Sam McLarty and Patrick Lipinski. The highest draft pick that anyone picked him was at number 54, the lowest at 88. After the Combine, no one thought him worthy of selection, until the very last week before the draft, when presumably word gets out about who has been interviewed.

So well done Knightmare (in the 2016 Trial run 3/8 and again in his final draft 24/11), DraftMe 21/11, Gee Dub 23/11, FootyProphet 23/11 and Nate7 (North Melbourne phantom draft) 23/11.

Fremantle's talent identification team knew what they were doing, picking him at 38.

Incidentally, Luke Ryan was the third biggest slider out of all players who got drafted with only Patrick Kerr and Brad Scheer dropping further than they were expected to be selected by phantom drafters.

 

[Nightrain]

In what has been another bleak year for us, there have been a few positives (Luke Ryan, the emergence of Blakely, Bennell finally getting on the park) but none more so than this kid. Watched Peel today and just love the way Sean goes about it. Will prove to be handy in the forward line also.

 

[scon]

I'm more confident in our talent spotting team after last season and the things the club has said about its central importance.

 

[mayne man]

Loved it when he kicked the goal from about 55m out and then turned to to crowd with his finger to his mouth telling the crowd to shut up. The kid is a gun

 

[Gussman]

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

 

[scon]

I liked the attitude toward the flogs in the crowd as well.

 

[masai]

I liked the attitude toward the flogs in the crowd as well.

Must of thought the Subi crowd to be a bunch of amateurs, heard better at his local country footy.

 

[scon]

It's definitely sharper in the bush you overpaid yuppy spud flogs.

 

[Righteo]

If he plays around 18 games he'll s**t it in.

 

[Taylor]

No he won't.

It will still be won by the 6th defender at a club that will feed him the ball and let him run off without a man.

Second place will be a big bodied mid who pushes off opponents with the Dustin Martin moves.

 

[Allikat]

No he won't.

It will still be won by the 6th defender at a club that will feed him the ball and let him run off without a man.

Second place will be a big bodied mid who pushes off opponents with the Dustin Martin moves.

Nah it'll be won by whoever the selector's friend has a big bet on.

 

[Tundrawolf]

I liked the attitude toward the flogs in the crowd as well.

Ha I bet you one of them was that St Kilda flog St Cia***, I don't want to tag him here because he an absolute toss pot. He reports on their board on all things West Aussie and Freo (and even the Eagles) like he has insider knowledge.

 

[LeftFootBanana]

I don't care whether he wins it or not - this bloke was a "start the car" draft steal of mammoth proportions.

A natural no nonsense footballer who is probably still 6 or 7 years from playing his best footy. He is going to inflict some serious pain (both physical and mental) on the opposition over his career.

 

[estibador]

Ha I bet you one of them was that St Kilda flog St Cia***, I don't want to tag him here because he an absolute toss pot. He reports on their board on all things West Aussie and Freo (and even the Eagles) like he has insider knowledge.

And none of it ever comes true.

Which is when he backtracks and says things like '[insert Dockers player] did want to come to the Saints but we lost interest because we're going to be signing a bigger fish now'.

 

[stax on the mull]

Ha I bet you one of them was that St Kilda flog St Cia***, I don't want to tag him here because he an absolute toss pot. He reports on their board on all things West Aussie and Freo (and even the Eagles) like he has insider knowledge.

Here's one of his: "everyone over here knows balic and tucker are gone. langdon more likely to go than unlikely". OK, one out of 3 guess maybe.

 

[scon]

Don't be cruel,he's a man battling limited intelligence.
Perhaps other things too.
His life must be difficult enough.

 

[Okinakashi]

Stuff the Rising Star.

This kid will be All-Australian before he hangs up the boots.

 

[scon]

At this rate he'll be AA before he gets a Rising Star.

 

[Wally Walpamur]

I'll bet the Bulldogs are kicking themselves they took English ahead of Darcy. It'll be interesting to see who has the better career after 10 years. IMO Darcy has shown so much football intelligence and the only thing holding him back now is his engine.

 

[Deathly]

I'll bet the Bulldogs are kicking themselves they took English ahead of Darcy.

Their fault for being filthy vultures and keeping an extra eye on WA talent in recent times.

 

[Kram]

And none of it ever comes true.

Which is when he backtracks and says things like '[insert Dockers player] did want to come to the Saints but we lost interest because we're going to be signing a bigger fish now'.

I worked out a while back that it was him constantly button mashing on us on the MB, bloke is a cockroach.

 

[Dockernut]

Kid is a ******* weapon.

 

[rgauci]

That boot. Just wow. 55m bang. The competitive nature too, shhhhhhh, shhhhh. Gonna take a few years, but he'll go beast mode.

I wasn't convinced early like others, the fact he fell for the same trick deep inside our defensive 50 twice (playing afl) and gave away free kicks with the hand over the shoulder. I wasn't sure he was learning from his mistakes, but the progression from the beginning of the year til now is impressive. Those contested marks in front of Litherland (former Hawks player) whom a lot of us wanted to trade for, were ludicrous. He treated him like an under 14s player.