{"id":18699,"date":"2015-10-05T11:09:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T01:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boundforglorynews.com.au\/?p=18699"},"modified":"2015-10-05T11:09:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T01:09:22","slug":"2015-draft-profile-darcy-macpherson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2015\/10\/05\/2015-draft-profile-darcy-macpherson\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Draft Profile: Darcy Macpherson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boundforglorynews.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bfgnprofiles.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17912\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boundforglorynews.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bfgnprofiles.png\" alt=\"bfgnprofiles\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Darcy Macpherson (Northern Knights)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Height:<\/strong> 174 cm<br \/>\n<strong>Weight:<\/strong> 74 kg<br \/>\n<strong>Position:<\/strong> Inside midfielder<br \/>\n<strong>Strengths:<\/strong> Clearances, endurance, reading the play<br \/>\n<strong>Weaknesses:<\/strong> Scoreboard impact<br \/>\n<strong>Player comparison:<\/strong> Zach Merrett<br \/>\n<strong>First year impact:<\/strong> Long term prospect<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kicking:<\/strong> Average<br \/>\n<strong>Marking:<\/strong> Average<br \/>\n<strong>Endurance:<\/strong> Above average<br \/>\n<strong>Speed:<\/strong> Average<\/p>\n<p><strong>Statistics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Northern Knights TAC Cup: eight games, 7.4 kicks, 8.6 handballs, 16 disposals, 3.9 marks, 3.5 tackles, 0.4 goals<br \/>\nFootscray Bulldogs VFL: three games, 5.7 kicks, 4.7 handballs, 10.3 disposals, 2.3 marks, 3.7 tackles, 0.3 goals<\/p>\n<p>It has been a tough season for father-son prospect Darcy Macpherson. Nursing a shoulder injury, Macpherson did not get onto the field until the second half of the TAC Cup season. However there is glimpse of hope for Bulldogs fans as the son of former bulldogs Stephen, showed why he was selected in the Vic Metro squad.<\/p>\n<p>Macpherson is a hard nut around the football going in for the ball and winning key clearances. His ability to extract the football out of the pack and find a teammate is great as it allowed his teammates to open the play up.<\/p>\n<p>Macpherson is also seen a valuable user of the football by he\u2019s teammates. During the TAC Cup season he averaged 8.2 handballs received proving that his teammates like the football in his hands.<\/p>\n<p>Macpherson had the opportunity to size up against bigger developed opponents as he played three games for the Footscray bulldogs in the VFL during the season. Although his numbers were lower than at TAC Cup level, Macpherson impressed with his pressure around the football and showed his great core strength as he was able to lay tackles on the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Macpherson is a father-son prospect to the bulldogs as his dad Stephen played 188 games for the Bulldogs between 1982 and 1995. Stephen was a solid player for the bulldogs contributing in the midfield each week.<\/p>\n<p>Working on his goal kicking and small forward ability will assist Macpherson at AFL level as his height may prevent the usual inside midfielder to play up forward for long periods of the game as the game has evolved to see taller bigger body midfields.<\/p>\n<p>Overall Macpherson will be a solid player and will make more of an\u00a0impact the more he plays. As he is a father-son pick he will most likely end up at the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darcy Macpherson (Northern Knights) Height: 174 cm Weight: 74 kg Position: Inside midfielder Strengths: Clearances, endurance, reading the play Weaknesses: Scoreboard impact Player comparison: Zach Merrett First year impact: Long term prospect Kicking: Average Marking: Average Endurance: Above average Speed: Average Statistics: Northern Knights TAC Cup: eight games, 7.4 kicks, 8.6 handballs, 16 disposals, 3.9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[640,683,1266,1376,45,1529,1966],"class_list":["post-18699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-draft-profiles","tag-darcy-macpherson","tag-draft-profile","tag-merrett","tag-northern","tag-northern-knights","tag-player-profile","tag-zac-merrett"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}