He had a case of the “Myers” early on, ironed that out at 3/4 time though.
He’s really putting together a great season now. Gonna be a great player when he turns his 22 possession games into 30 possession games.
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Still needs to get better at sticking his tackles. But loving his improvement in just about every other aspect this year.
Pity we can’t say the same for our field kicking
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Top 15 in comp for ground ball gets inside 50… impressive for a guy that’s probably 50/50 forward and mid.
A lot of criticism for that time spent forward but he’s learning handy forward craft and kicks more goals than any other midfielder. Not a bad string to have to his bow.
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Has had a really outstanding last month or two, considering he was not in round 1 best 22. And has kicked some clutch goals the last two weeks. A real positive as there was a big question mark over his head in preseason.
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Yep
Almost like the coaches have some idea after all?
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Timed perfectly.
Again.
Having seen a fair bit of his draft year. His time forward hasn’t really developed what he already knew.
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The only other mid you’d get a similar forward ground ball output to Parish’s 50/50 role would be Merrett and coaches are too scared to pull the trigger on removing Merrett out of midfield even when he’s heavily tagged.
He’s kicked at least one goal in our last 5 games. And for the season, he’s kicked a goal in 8 of the 14 games he’s played in. So going more onball has come with scoreboard pressure him.
And you can’t have too many players capable of kicking a goal. If we need to rest him then having him do it as a forward is a plus.
While Merrett has only kicked 3 goals for the year (in 3 games), and it was something he said he wanted to add to his game.
Darcy’s coming along well.
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Só when do we lock this boy away for 5?
As soon as possible!
Gonna say this again
Darc is one of the few players I trust with a set shot right now. Honestly gives him sooo much value to be able to hit the scoreboard which Merrett, Heppell and Shiel often all fail to do consistently
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To be a really good team, some more of our younger group need to go to another level. It looks like Darce and Pidge are the first cabs off the rank. But we still have some very good players who have been under performing. If Zaka, Fanta, Darce and Pidge can all lift we will make the 8 .
Have noticed these 2 really thrive in the last quarters this year. Must be super fit
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Where’s this “Darce” come from?
Please refer to him by his real nickname, “Darcy Parish”
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Good to hear him say on Don-Air that he hopes to sign a new contract pretty soon.
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Did he say who he’s signing with?
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People used to say he’ll be only a role player and decent foot soldier. He’s already exceeded that and only 21 years of age. Plenty more improvement left in him
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