Welcome to the Bulldogs Sam Darcy

[hatescaptcha]

He’ll kick 15 one day.


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[D Mitchell]

He’ll kick 15 one day.


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Calm down, H. Extraordinarily exciting, I've watched and admired his grandfather and his father. In his 3rd game, he's ahead of both. 15 goals ?

 

[Libbaaaa]

Calm down, H. Extraordinarily exciting, I've watched and admired his grandfather and his father. In his 3rd game, he's ahead of both. 15 goals ?

16. Imagine when he actually gets paid a free kick or two.

 

[TiAn_]

Wowee, he’s bloody good

 

[Dogs_r_barking]

What an asset, move him from the backline into the forward line, on Sicily no less, who I might add looked mighty uncomfortable

 

[Dazb86]

The kid goes alright. His scope is pretty massive. So good aerially for someone so underdeveloped

 

[bobs head soup]

What an asset, move him from the backline into the forward line, on Sicily no less, who I might add looked mighty uncomfortable

The Sicily match up highlights what a scary prospect Darcy is. Sicily was conceding him 20 cm (or 8 inches).

 

[D Mitchell]

That wasn’t really Bruce’s role today, Schache would have been better suited to how we used Bruce.

Then he was mis used. Do you think Schache would have at least goaled ?

At this stage of his career, he's overwhelmingly the best of the D'Arcys. Both Dave and Luke were still playing in the twos, not together, of course.

 

[D Mitchell]

The Sicily match up highlights what a scary prospect Darcy is. Sicily was conceding him 20 cm (or 8 inches).

More scary, if that's the word, is that Sam's well ahead of his 2 forbears and look what Luke became, Brownlow favourite and influential Club person.

 

[bresker]

Such a natural footballer . He doesn’t just mark the ball because of his reach. He’s got that uncanny ability that great players have to know where the ball is going to drop .

 

[Smiley Boy]

Sam is going to be a big big problem for opposition teams in another 12 months time with a full preseason under his belt!

 

[ringa5]

When you have an airiel threat like Sam.You play him forward .He is a weapon!

 

[doggiesin08]

I know Ashcroft is a ball magnet and ready to play straight away but I’ll be interested to see Darcy’s odds for the 2023 rising star award. He’ll be a massive chance.

 

[Zgope1]

What kind of a third gamer moves from intercepting everything to swinging a win or go home footy game in 5 minutes. Such a stud. And the way he plays he has that Bont-like “this level is easy for me” belief. Just knows he belongs already

 

[Sentinel]

Without wanting to put the moz on him, he just feels like the biggest 'sure thing' we've had since Bont. From game 1 you just know without any doubt that he's going to have a great career, there seems to be no question about his talent and future progression. It's so rare.

 

[stefoid]

So do we play him deep and let Astro lead up the ground?

 

[the dog's kennel]

So do we play him deep and let Astro lead up the ground?

That's what JUH is meant to do. It's a good problem to have, but we are going to have to work out what we do with all 3 in our forwardline. (And let's not forget Bruce + supposedly Rory Lobb!)

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Meanwhile we’re still desperate for a bunch of tall, strong defenders

 

[Optimistic Dog]

You reckon you could build a premiership team with Darcy, JUH, Astro and possibly Buku's aerial ability plus an a grade midfield.

 

[weltschmerz]

His composure is what impresses me.

 

[X_box_X]

I'm not sure if it has been mentioned elsewhere, but I listened to the latest Danny Boyd podcast last week. Rodney Eade was the guest.

Eade has involvement with Scotch College so he knows both JUH and Darcy very well.

Danny asked Rocket to comment on both. He said he didn't have as much to do with JUH because his draft year was more interrupted by Covid, but he said Sam is a natural forward who has outstanding craft. He couldn't speak highly enough about him. They then talked about his massive height so Danny used Joe Daniher as a comparison and asked if he will be as good as the Brisbane spear head. I've never heard Rocket answer so quickly. "Oh, yeah, he'll be better than Daniher" was his response.

To be better than Daniher is pleasing, given that you could mount a solid case that he is an A grader (some may dispute this), but the confidence and quickness in Rocket's answer left me thinking it is a crazy comparison (poles apart).

Geeeees, I hope he doesn't have any more injuries. The fact he is still growing is a positive and a negative. I'd be perfectly fine with him not growing any more. He's already tall enough and being too tall could become detrimental.

 

[blagodellago]

If he can grow another 6 inches or so he will be a real handful.


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[cherrypie]

Agree with most of the above comments. We don’t want to put much pressure on him but anything less than 5 Colemans from fullback will be a failure

 

[glenashley]

His contested marking ability is a god send. Particularly with our current inside 50 delivery.

 

[Next Waiting]

Sam is going to be a big big problem for opposition teams in another 12 months time with a full preseason 2 weeks time with a rest under his belt!