AFL Player # 3: Darcy Parish

[Beerfish]

Contract Status: Unrestricted free agent 2028 or 2029
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 18, doug85

 

[crackers65]

Exactly cake. You need depth, but let’s not forget he was AA in 2021. He played 23 games that year, and we really need him back to that standard. He’s 28 this year so he has plenty of good years ahead of him.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Exactly cake. You need depth, but let’s not forget he was AA in 2021. He played 23 games that year, and we really need him back to that standard. He’s 28 this year so he has plenty of good years ahead of him.

his body is not up to it. Has barely avg'd half a season since 2021

Parish 2021 may as well be James Hird 1996

 

[Vander18]

The six year deal not looking good. If he can’t get his body right then we can’t play him, can’t trade him and it’ll cost plenty to pay him out given 6 year contract term.

I don’t understand why 6 year contracts have become a thing - injuries are such a big factor in footy so there is a lot of risk (to club) that comes with them. Giving one to a bloke in his late 20’s seemed particularly odd.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

The six year deal not looking good. If he can’t get his body right then we can’t play him, can’t trade him and it’ll cost plenty to pay him out given 6 year contract term.

I don’t understand why 6 year contracts have become a thing - injuries are such a big factor in footy so there is a lot of risk (to club) that comes with them. Giving one to a bloke in his late 20’s seemed particularly odd.

Parish signed on a 5 year deal.

but yes.

he looks all sorts of cooked

another body on the pile of Essendon players ruined by injuries in the peak of their careers

 

[Vander18]

Parish signed on a 5 year deal.

but yes.

he looks all sorts of cooked

another body on the pile of Essendon players ruined by injuries in the peak of their careers

Was initially reported as 5 and then revealed later to be 6 no?

 

[doug85]

Is it 5 with a trigger for a 6?

 

[Old Campaigner]

Is it 5 with a trigger for a 6?

No trigger apparently, they just decided not to report it as a six year deal

I think some journo got wind of it and started asking questions, at which time the club fessed up

 

[quotemokc]

We should be excited for him to return as he is our best ball winner and we haven't properly seen him play alongside Durham and Caldwell since they exploded

 

[Laverdeee]

only 1 week away now...

 

[DERO]

Parish signed on a 5 year deal.

but yes.

he looks all sorts of cooked

another body on the pile of Essendon players ruined by injuries in the peak of their careers

Lol.

I'm not going to be the one to break it to him.

 

[Agronomus]

No trigger apparently, they just decided not to report it as a six year deal

I think some journo got wind of it and started asking questions, at which time the club fessed up

Wow that doesn't sound suss at all does it?
The Parishes of Moggs Creek must have some sort of land development deal with dodo

 

[Skipper_]

I wonder whose midfield time he will take.