#3 Darcy Parish - signed to 2029 (Part 3, from April 2025)

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The board just rubber stamps

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If this guy isn’t the poster boy for why you don’t sign average players to long deals I don’t know who is.
If anything this deal should be a warning not to do the same with Draper

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6 years to a worse player in McGrath last year seems to suggest we haven’t learned anything.

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You do use their past performance to assist with those judgements.

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And ignore his injury history…… and the lack of cohesion with the other starting midfielders?

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Of course not.

That would all be included in “past performance”.

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Whilst I, for the most part, agree with the sentiment.

Hawks pushed out Tom Mitchell after winning the Brownlow. So we can’t say that no club would have done it.

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You think that but no clubs have done it.

Give an example of another club who has done so with one of their top players at free agency?

I can’t think of anyone with the exception of Rockliff from Brisbane, but there was a lot going on there. He had captaincy taken away from him, club was unhappy with his off field professionalism (allegedly) and he felt like was being forced out. He had also had injury woes leading up to.

IF there was a thought club wouldn’t be pushing to contend during time that the player was to be contracted in then it might have been valid reasoning to do so but that wasn’t our situation. We were building towards something with Parish (27yrs old now) seen as a key piece.

Whilst they weren’t free agents Hawks pushed Titchell and JOM (both now 31yrs old) out not believing they’d be impacting strongly anymore (slowing up/injury issues) by time were going to be in the mix. And wanting to build a new midfield group. It’s a different scenario.

@Heppelltitis yes Hawks have shown some ruthlessness that said I agree.

A team that should have been more ruthless of late in West Coast in letting Yeo go, low ball him and send him on his way but they fought to keep him. They may be doing the low balling to Oscar Allen this time around though

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PANDO

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I’ve said this before. The club has to assess if his back and leg issues have any correlation to the crazy amount of golf he plays. Maybe it isn’t but they need to look into it

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Parish in 2021 was not run of the mill.

He was genuinely fantastic that year. Led the league in centre clearances.
If we had that Parish playing right now we would be a better side.

Bloody shame what the injuries have done to him.

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How much golf does he play?

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I dont think he plays anymore than an average golfer.

Probably a couple of times a month.

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Doesn’t seem that ‘crazy’.

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I reckon we need to look into his haircut

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Too long? It probably is.

That would be it.

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All these injuries started once the RISH & RATH podcast stopped.

We need to start that up again.

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Father Time hasn’t been kind to him.

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Anyone who pings a calf before 27 should in no way be considered for a long term deal.
I said it when he did it and got ran out of here…

I will do it myself thank you @Stallion

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“Oh it’s easy to say these things in hindsight”.

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