I’m not disagreeing with you, but I think either club would’ve hit that draft out of the park with either kid. Both are super talented. I think oliver’s best games will be better than parish. But parish will be a guaranteed 25disposal a game player with outstanding class.
fairly broad reference to how Merrett has really developed as a leader driving standards within the playing group. Works as hard or harder than any on his game and is determined to drive the club forward.
Absolutely, and Dodoro has publically said that he wouldn’t have thought twice about taking Oliver if Melbourne had selected Parish the pick before ours
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Parish is the smaller of the two as well, and is being held back from the inside where he really shines.
Oliver is well in front at present, but Parish has plenty of development left in him.
Should be a lot of fun to watch and compare the two as their careers progress.
Injury Update - June 20
Darcy Parish will be available for selection when the Essendon match committee meets to select the team to take on Sydney on Friday night.
The 19 year old has missed the last two games with a calf injury but has trained strongly in recent days and has been given the all clear to return to the field.
“Darcy had that tibialis posterior injury which is a muscle in his calf, obviously it was a low grade injury to one of the smaller muscles in that area,” High Performance Manager Justin Crow said.
“He’s recovered really well and he’s now done a couple of weeks of training.
“He trained well today and he’ll be available to play this weekend.”
Mitch Brown will also be available this weekend after overcoming an ankle injury.
The 26 year old was helped from the field in the dying stages of the match against Melbourne in round six.
“Mitch has also made a really good recovery, he trained well today and we’ll expect Mitch to be available and play this weekend,” Crow said.
There are promising signs for Jayden Laverde with the third year player stepping up his training load ahead of a possible return as early as next week.
“Jayden was involved in the main training today … we’re really excited to see him hopefully, all going well, next week,” Crow said.
“Jayden has a meeting with his surgeon this afternoon where he’s hoping to get that final tick off and then the rest of it is making sure his conditioning is ready to play.”
Patrick Ambrose is a month away from returning from his quad injury while Ben McNiece is expected to miss this week’s match after picking up a knock during training.
“In the pre-season around March he had some whiplash issues from a collision out at training,” Crow said.
“He took a knock in the session (last Saturday), he didn’t finish training – we had it scanned and he’s got a little bit more of an issue with the whiplash that’s re-aggravated.
“We don’t expect him to get up for this weekend and then we’ll assess his improvement over the coming days.”
The Bombers matches against the Swans on Friday and Williamstown on Saturday in the VFL come after the Club’s mid-season bye.
With ten home and away games remaining, Crow said he’s happy with the overall health of the playing list.
“We’ve got most of our players available,” he said.
“They trained really well on Saturday and again today.
“We’re doing some good peak intensity work where we’ve got our intensity ‘above the line’ – so our guys are in a great place to perform over the coming month.”
Thanks Christ this kid is back. Need to get as many games into him as possible.
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What’s he up to 30 out of a possible 34? He’s doing okay getting games under his belt, I don’t think missing these 2 are gonna hinder his development too much…
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How long has Justin Crow been at the club? Comes across as a complete pro, extremely thorough and careful with injuries, which is clearly paying off. We’d have to have the shortest injury list in the AFL wouldn’t we, or thereabouts?
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Does Parish need a game or 2 in the VFL to get up to speed, or does everyone back him to find instant form against the Swans?
Missed two matches, full training for 2 weeks according to Crow (perhaps might’ve played last week if we had a game?), reckon he’s probably right to slot straight back in.
He is doing ‘whatever it takes’ for the playing list to be nice and healthy
Parish hasn’t seemed a player that needs to find form after a break.
Even back in his tac cup days he’d just slot back in seemlessly
I agree, I think. Though he did seem to tighten up his disposal the more he played, and he does have a slight tendency to spray his kicks. I’d rather have in the 1’s though.
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Yep Crow is very good at what he does.
And his performance on camera comes across as really genuine and loves his work.
Will be conservative if needs to be with players as concerned about entire careers than a win this week.
One of the shortest injury lists in the AFL.
I think he is part of what worsfold said about gameday preperation mid week via players loads only able to train once or twice so is hard to develop game plan with limited sessions.
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Yep, Crow is turning out to be a real weapon for us.
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You mean he is a better weapon than the weapon? Absolutely no doubt about that.
Crow is first and foremost a running fitness guy and leaves the strength work to a specialist, who reports to Crow. Much better that way TBH.
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Parish does not play VFL.
BRING
HIM
IN
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Justin is the haystack
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Straight back in, don’t waste him in the magoos
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This kid’s name is not on a magnet. It is taped permanently to the team board. We have missed his intensity around the contest and spread across the ground over the past few weeks. The upside for young Darcy is yuge! Still a kid, wait till he puts on some size and builds the tank even more over the next few pre-seasons. It is so exciting having some decent young players coming through that are already having an impact.
Good times ahead.
Howlett out (and I am a massive fan of the Bobcat) and Parish in for this weeks game in Sydney.
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