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AFL Player # 3: Darcy Parish - Re-injured his calf at training - 2/7

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This is the thing though. I don't think he was poor... He had some poor moments sure, but overall he was ok.

I think we had very few players who weren't poor, parish at least had an excuse and for someone coming off injury, he probably was as good as can be expected.
But it was a dreadful performance by everyone.
 

In the first one Bryan gets his hand to the ball but Darcy stays at ground level and tries to muscle Bryan out of the way. The resulting tap is partially ineffective. No idea what Stringer is up to as he seems to be headed in a completely different direction to the ball and is uninterested in his man (Brayshaw). You then have Lloyd bitching about Parish for not being hard enough, when he was the only one close enough to even touch Brayshaw, gets a hand to him but he pirouettes out of reach and takes off in the direction Parish had just come from. Parish had too much momentum to change directions that quickly, and Brayshaw gives it to Parish's opponent (who he'd left in order to tackle Stringer's opponent) and Merrett takes off after him.

In the second one Fremantle's three mids are all tagging our mids. Merrett is being hugged by Brayshaw (a much bigger player), Hobbs is wrestling with Fyfe on the right behind the graphics (and losing), and Parish manages to break Serong's tag by launching himself forward, at which point Serong "shoves" him under the ball (Lloyd's interpretation). Bryan was aiming for Hobbs anyway, so Parish is kinda irrelevant other than to say he got beaten. Effectively Fremantle had a centre bounce plan to put their biggest mids in there and put a heavy tag on all three of ours, such that they all sacrificed their own games to keep us out of the contest. Is Bryan so difficult to predict and Darcy so unlikely to win the tap with Bryan sitting on his head, that they'd rather plan around a loose ground ball? :drunk: Anyway the ball spills loose in the centre circle, Serong runs after it, Hobbs breaks away from Fyfe and Durham arrives off the wing, but Serong kicks inside their 50 right before Durham can make contact.

Third example Flip is in there, both rucks jump and both rucks completely missed the ball. The ball comes down forward of the contest, which Parish reads quite well and goes for the fall of the ball, but the ball lands on it's end and bounces bullet-like towards Stringer and Fyfe's feet, so basically reversed it's direction from a weird bounce. Stringer tackles Fyfe, but Fyfe is too quick and has already gathered the ball and flicked it to Serong (Parish's man). If that ball had bounced the way most people would have anticipated, Parish would've been home free.

The last one is Wright in the ruck and he jumps but the ball favours Darcy who taps it straight to Serong. The others in there are Caldwell and Perkins, with Perkins on Serong. Perkins loses body contact, catches Serong around the hips after he's started to sprint forward and basically just gets dragged along behind without slowing him down a whole lot. Parish tries to impact Serong's disposal but Serong flies past him with Perkins still hanging on to him and handballs it behind Parish's back to Brayshaw.


I don't think it's a coincidence that we're losing the hit-outs to advantage and then losing the clearances.

I also don't think it's a problem that Parish is trying to win the ball with his own hands since that's what he's there for. He'd be a lot more effective if the blokes charged with blocking Brayshaw and Serong were a bit more effective: Stringer seems disinterested in those clips, and Perkins just wasn't strong enough.



There's another one from the first quarter where Flip gets a nice tap straight down Hobbs' throat, but Merrett gets in Hobbs' road while trying to intercept the tap, and Stringer's opponent then tackles Hobbs, who has one arm pinned, loses the ball off the free hand and is called a throw, with a free kick against.

The chemistry is just way off and none of them are trusting or supporting each other.

I miss Setterfield.
 
First game back after a decent lay off.
Callum Mills and Lachie Weller who came back this week after similar lay offs were subbed out for the last quarter of their games.
Might not have been the worst thing for Parish as well. Seemed to start very nicely but dropped away, could have perhaps even given more in the second and third if he thought he’s a chance to have the last quarter off.

Was far from Parish’s best game, but was one of our better mids alongside Merrett.
Team tackling seemed way down, I remember against Carlton I thought it amusing only 1 player had more tackles for them than Dow who came on in the last and had 3 (Kennedy had 5).
This week our highest were Merrett, Snelling and Hobbs with 4 apiece which seems way off.
 

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I'll admit I was one who was letting my eyes wander toward getting a free agency pick. Parish although not perfect, he has an undeniable skill set that we need in our team. The pick isn't looking as glossy as it did at the start of the season either. My eyes are now back on Parish. Parish.jpg
 
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How much do you expect to be paid for shithouse performances like that Parish?

Worse teams have let better players walk.

Gun players win games. This bloke is nothing more than an accumulator.
 

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Not clinical, Connor Rozee snapped a more difficult goal
 
That wasn't Parish's worst game for the year. I get we're all in "let's blame Parish yet again" mode but he was fine tonight. His last quarter was impactful - including setting up the clutch Langford goal - and he didn't get burned by his direct midfield opponent unlike last week.
 

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AFL Player # 3: Darcy Parish - Re-injured his calf at training - 2/7


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