Flags are rarely won by anything other than guts and grind. Moments of flashiness stand out but the big games are usually won by the team that can fight the hardest for the longest.
Darcy gives us a strong dog in the fight
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Iād trade them both for Rowell
So he kicked them from the backline?
FFS why is it so hard to accept that a player is better if he has more than one string to his bow?
Of course a player who can dominate multiple positions is better.
But your comment was suggesting that Darcy playing Fwd for most of the year has turned him into some lethal goal kicker, which it hasnt.
Like I said neither of his goals had anything to do with his ādevelopmentā as a Fwd.
One was a lovely kick on the run from 50 and the other was from lucky positioning and a little bit of andy mcgrath magic.
In general whenever parish goes Fwd you tend to not see him for the Qtr.
Some players just play better in their natural position,
Parish is very much one of those.
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Revisionism only applies if youāve changed a previously held opinion
I was consistent all along that that Parish was a) a potentially great mid fielder - lay claim to the first poster to make the Daisy Williams comparison
And b) he would be a better player for his time asked to play forward
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Impressive game again. Heās a good wet weather player, his hands and strength over the ball comes to the fore. He always got the ball going forward, no sideways kicks, always took the smart option. 83% efficiency in the wet, finished his work well with 2 goals. Sign him up!
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Re-name thread to reflect wet weather specialist status.
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I dunno about others, but I have some concerns with the logic of āweāre not going to play our most natural young midfielder in the midfield until heās learnt to play a bit as a forwardā . Major concerns.
That final in Sydney should have been all the indications needed. Young kid stands up in a big game when played around the ball, whilst supposedly more senior players wilt. The years since feel a bit of a waste, quite frankly, though some of it has been injury caused to be fair.
However, heās rolling now. If the footy department donāt realise how good he is, the cannon beckons for all of them.
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I agree he is not our best ball user by foot, due to him pannicing with the ball in hand. Hoping he can mold his game on rorry slone.
But he is comming along nicely as an inside mid. I donāt think his size is an issue. He brings something different then Mcg, Sheil, and Smith. More of an accumulator.
Or , maybe, ya know, just keep all three?
Radical idea, I know.
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A small, inside, mid? Thought it was for ābalanceā?
Playing along with your other questionā¦yes, probably either of those. Smithās knees could be cooked, and McGrath doesnāt appear to be either an extractor or a line breaker.
The kid goes out and has 30+ touches two weeks in a row and the first thing some People are saying is āthis should increase his trade valueā
Are you insane?
No draftee is ever a sure thing, and Parish is looking like he was worth every bit of that 5th pick. AND he is only going to get better.
Why would you even THINK about trading him for an untried prospect.
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Because people love shiny draft picks and just assume that a first round pick will be a Dangerfield, Selwood or Rioli. They tend to forget for everyone one of those guys thereās a Tambling, Fiora etc.
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Are you ok?
Sloane is an excellent comparison
Edit: but I donāt see him as an accumulator, he is an inside extractor, wiry, hard headed, balanced, aggressive at the ball.
Heās not Sloane. He doesnāt need to be Sloane. We donāt need him to be Sloane.
He just needs to be the best he can be. This lad can seriously play.
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Why do people call him small? heās the same size as Joel Selwood and no one calls him small.
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lets fully entrench ourselves in one dimensional mediocrity. Weāve been masters at it for the last 15 years. As this that the contention?
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So you think Smith, McGrath and Parish are mediocre? Theyāre the problem?
Theyāre all just opinions, yours and mine obviously differ.
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Itās the hair.
Someone should have a word to him about that.
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