More disposals then Mc Evoy and Ceglar combined. 6 contested marks. Break out season. Looked so promising early and was held back by injuries for a few season. Now the sky is the limit....
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I said this to my brother this arvo. On his last six weeks at the moment it goes Gawn>Darcy>Daylight.
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Lol, remember when people wanted to trade this guy.
Better write off JL while we're at it, hasn't won a premiership yet.Certain sections of this board are ridiculously quick to write young players off. Same thing happened with Neale, Logue, and Cox too, to name a few. You saw it happening a bit with Henry earlier too.
It's as if people can't comprehend how much of a massive step up the AFL is to other levels and just expect young kids to be the finished product from day 1.
Probably ties in with how impatient people are with rebuilds too. 'What, it's been 4 years without finals and those kids we drafted are now 19, 20, and 21 and still not dominating? Rebuild failed!'
Would he be the strongest mark of any ruckman in the AFL at the moment?
He's certainly miles ahead of what Sandi used to do in that dept.
Possibly the most influential player in the comp over the past month. What a star he is going to be. With all respect to Cez, this is the bloke we should have been giving $750k over 4 years.
Yeah I just meant from a contextual point of view. Although I reckon by the time he’s a RFA in 2025 we would have freed up Fyfe’s substantial salary so hopefully we can afford to keep the band together by then anyway.also, this is not directed at you per se, but I wish the media would understand he signed a 2 year EXTENSION, not a 2 year contract, he’s signed until the end of the 2024 season.
Never entertained that thought.Lol, remember when people wanted to trade this guy.
Spot on. They're young men - and considering puberty finishes at around 25, most of them haven't finished puberty yet... They're still growing up.It's as if people can't comprehend how much of a massive step up the AFL is to other levels and just expect young kids to be the finished product from day 1.
Tbf tho the umps haven’t seemed to apply the Sandi rule to him yet-(keeps this up tho and it’s good chance)He's certainly miles ahead of what Sandi used to do in that dept.
Tbf tho the umps haven’t seemed to apply the Sandi rule to him yet-(keeps this up tho and it’s good chance)
-where suddenly arm chopping is allowed
And now a club champion! Dude is a beast of a Doig Medallist.Dude is an absolute beast.
Not hard to see why. Every pre season Darcy loses the fat and gains muscle. He’s a professional.Two AFL draft examples that proved club recruiters wrong - SEN (quoting former Geelong Falcons Talent Manager Mick Turner)
“Another big example was Sean Darcy, this year at Fremantle he won their best and fairest, so he’s turned into a very elite player,” he continued.
“But at the time he came to us he was from Cobden, he was from a country family, eating country food, he was a border at Xavier, and Xavier when you’re a border, you’ve got to eat basically what’s given to you,” he continued.
“He was making the effort to come down on a train at least once a week to train with us, he was doing everything right, but a lot of recruiters looked at him and thought his skinfolds are high, he’s got to be lazy, he’s not dedicated enough, all these sorts of things.
“It depends on how you sell it to the recruiters.
“I just said to them, ‘Look, these are his circumstances. If you draft Sean Darcy and think he’s good enough, and you think your club’s professional enough to get him to improve … you get him fit, you get his skin folds down, weight down, he’s going to become a much better player because he’s a great kid and going to work really hard’.
“ That’s what happened, he went away and worked really hard and now he’s the best and fairest winner at Fremantle.”
Particularly in a ruckman.Not hard to see why. Every pre season Darcy loses the fat and gains muscle. He’s a professional.
Find it funny that recruiters are worried about skinfolds yet see skinny teenagers as having raw potential. That’s the case for Tim English, in the exact same draft. He’s a freaking lightweight still. You’d much rather a big lad who needs to lose the fat rather then a skinny lad who struggles to gain muscle.
I always found it baffling how much disdain and lack of awareness (including myself) many freo fans had with him. I think Grundy has skewed the fans perception of expecting ruckman to come on immediately.Not hard to see why. Every pre season Darcy loses the fat and gains muscle. He’s a professional.
Find it funny that recruiters are worried about skinfolds yet see skinny teenagers as having raw potential. That’s the case for Tim English, in the exact same draft. He’s a freaking lightweight still. You’d much rather a big lad who needs to lose the fat rather then a skinny lad who struggles to gain muscle.