Toast The Darren Jarman Appreciation thread

[Cap]

I was sifting through youtube and he seems to be the most popular Crow on youtube.

Which got me thinking that he really deserves another thread about how damned good he is.

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thats about all I can find that are of any great length and quality. What a gun and he is going to be one of those players who i'll be talking about when i'm 80 and all the young ones are trying to ompare him to the latest "almost as good as Jarman" player

 

[RoosterLad]

You forget how good he was until you see videos like that. People were saying Porplyzia would be our next Jars but he is miles off.

 

[Cap]

I think it was really easy to forget just how good he really was, The Crows really only got to see his forward with North and the Hawks getting a better idea of what he could do in the midfield.

 

[cammo6556]

Geez i hope we pick up any Jarman offspring that enter the draft... if they are half as good as either of their dads......

Darren Jarman is my favourite crows player of all time and is only in DANGER of losing that mantle to our young number 32

 

[Butts_JZZ30]

Arguably the most naturally gifted player to play the game. One of those players with whom you relaxed when they had the ball, you knew it was in safe hands and the kick would hit the target ALWAYS

 

[The Karma Bus]

My favourite player..

So many things i will never forget about him, but definitely that mark in the 97 prelim (i was sitting a few rows up from the fence on that flank and that was huge) and what he did in the grand finals but especially the 97 grand final.. The atmosphere was not just crazy because it was a GF and then because everyone realised we were going to win, but everyone knew they had seen a player do something that will be talked about forever.. Even all the neutral supporters were just blown away.. Funny, i was just talking to my bro yesterday about classic old games, past players, D Jarman..

I had a hawks supporter that was maybe 50 sitting next to me at the GF and he kept saying throughout the whole game "dont stress, jars will win it for you, wait and see".. And he was right

He said he had seen basically every hawks game for 30 odd years and D Jarman was the best he had seen.. He was going for the crows simply because of D Jarman..

If only we had cloned/could clone him

 

[flight23]

when he went mental in the 97 grand final, i thought to myself, at least a superstar won it

i was shattered for us, but was genuinely happy that i got to see a performance like that

one of the greatest players ever

 

[flashmanvc]

An incredible player and, like it's been said, just so naturally gifted. Best field kick I've ever seen (off both feet, of course) and always had his eyes up to spot the best option to send the pill to. Delivered lace out and, sometimes, with an arrangement of the rarest and most delicate orchids.

I remember watching him play for the Hawks back in the early nineties, at Waverly, and he did a blind turn on the wing. The fact that there was no one near him at the time didn't seem to matter. He was probably being tagged by a ghost that day, because he's just so bloody good.

Here's to an absolute freak of a player.

 

[The Karma Bus]

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[Fudd#3]

Great clips, the 97 GF still send shivers when he was carving it up.

Stupid net filter at work, couldn't watch them as they were classed as pure football pron

Glad i got to see him play.

 

[Cap]

I hope that blokes like him are the future of footy, sublime skills that he practiced as a kid and honed in through North Adelaide.

good junior development is underrated IMO i'd say the majority of the champion players were bred Aussie rules players, not players who picked it up at 17 from another sport (not saying those people can't be champions...especially Tippet )

 

[danger_to_walker]

Will never ever forget seeing Fudd in the '97 state game at Footy Park, he got a free kick in the North Eastern pocket, 50m out on the boundary, he played on and spotted up Micky O in the goalsquare, but the umpire called him back to kick over the mark. He then proceeded to say "well bugger you, I'll just stroll around onto my left boot and put it straight through the middle". Absolute magician.

 

[twentydollarnote]

I remember hearing somewhere that at the AIS all the athletes these days are bigger and quicker but perform poorer with the hand eye coordination tests compared to how they used, just looking at his skills compared to most players today you can kinda see what they mean.

 

[The Karma Bus]

It's even the simple things as a kid growing up.. I know we used to be at an oval or on a road kicking the footy so much of the time, how often do you drive down a road and kids kicking a footy have to get off to let you drive through? Not so much like it used to be hey.. When we were young they were everywhere..

Darren and Andrew Jarman used to practice kicking at stobie poles together, just one of the ways they developed them immaculate skills..

 

[_Christoh_]

I have to profess my love of the man Darren Jarman.

I saw this guy start his career with the Roosters when I was a young lad and had his number on the back of my geurnsey in no time.

I wanted to run like him, kick like him, be both sided like him and just be as good as him. I wanted to be Fud.

There has not and Im bloody hopeing like hell there will be another player to come along who had such sublime skill and an ability like the great man.

He is the best kick to play the game, I thought Stewie Dew was going to eventually be better but that never happened, he wasnt as good on the right (close but not quite).

I thought Ackermanis was bloody good on both feet but he just wasnt as silky or as sublime.

I remember Jars kicking 9 goals in a final against South Adelaide, I remember him kicking a goal in the 87 GF in the SE pocket on his left that was pure class, I remember him running thru 50 but hardly ever missing.

He went on to do wonderful things with Hawthorn but it was hard to watch from afar, I enjoyed it when he came to Adelaide and knew that the guy was goign to do good things for you and he did.

Shanahan was given a bath that day in 97 but I know for a fact that no one would have stopped him.

Darren Jarman - My all time favourite player

 

[rayven]

It was a cold wintery day in 1993, the week after Modra cracked a ton against Melbourne, we travelled to Waverly park to tackle Hawthorn on a sunday afternoon, I believe Stuart Wigney made his debut for us that day? Fud played for Hawthorn, played on a wing, absolutly cut us up that day where i kept warm with hot chips and plastic cups of VB.
We crow supporters sat up behind the goals nearest the freeway to the ground(west side?) facing the scoreboard. You mostly couldnt see who had the ball on the outer wing from congestion, but by the travel of the ball you knew it was Fud, it spun different, its projectory was different to every other kick, it always found a brown and yellow gurnsey!

 

[Cap]

lolz at the Port moron trying to compare Didak to Jarman

I love how bigfooty has so many ********s happy enough to sit behind an avatar and talk garbage.

I'm not saying Didak isn't a fantastic player either.