I reckon up till 3 years ago you would have said he would have played till 35 but his decline has been so rapid that next year would have 100% been his last year of AFL till North took a sudden interest
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Toast Jack Darling - 250 AFL Games
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From what I remember Jack Darling was originally talked of as a very exciting early draft pick prospect as in a top three prospect .
He received a fractured skull a bruised brain and was in a coma at 17 so his draft prospects slipped after that and we got him at pick 24 a year later I think.
I've always enjoyed watching him play .When he was hot he was hot and when he was cold he was very cold but good value for a supporter mostly.
As for playing three more seasons. I saw a show about Muhammad Ali in the later part of his career and someone close to him said he would look in the mirror at the training gym and see he looked the same physically as he did five years ago and think he still had it.but he didn't.
He received a fractured skull a bruised brain and was in a coma at 17 so his draft prospects slipped after that and we got him at pick 24 a year later I think.
I've always enjoyed watching him play .When he was hot he was hot and when he was cold he was very cold but good value for a supporter mostly.
As for playing three more seasons. I saw a show about Muhammad Ali in the later part of his career and someone close to him said he would look in the mirror at the training gym and see he looked the same physically as he did five years ago and think he still had it.but he didn't.
Darling to midfieldle age.
