{"id":18961,"date":"2015-10-06T13:44:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T03:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boundforglorynews.com.au\/?p=18961"},"modified":"2015-10-06T13:44:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T03:44:09","slug":"2015-draft-profile-darcy-parish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2015\/10\/06\/2015-draft-profile-darcy-parish\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Draft Profile: Darcy Parish"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Darcy Parish\u00a0(Geelong Falcons)<\/strong>
\nHeight:\u00a0<\/strong>181 cm
\nWeight:\u00a0<\/strong>73 kg
\nPosition:\u00a0<\/strong>Midfielder
\nDraft range:<\/strong> Top five
\nStrengths:<\/strong> Kicking, never slows down, decision making, hurt factor
\nWeaknesses:<\/strong> Lack of size, defensive efforts, scoreboard impact
\nPlayer comparison:\u00a0<\/strong>Lachie Whitfield
\nFirst year impact:<\/strong> Rising Star nominee<\/p>\n

Kicking:<\/strong> Elite
\nMarking:<\/strong> Average
\nEndurance:<\/strong> Excellent
\nSpeed:<\/strong> Above average<\/p>\n

Darcy Parish is a classy outside midfielder, who despite his flaws, should be a top five pick.<\/p>\n

Parish is a very slight framed player who has a different type of speed. He runs hard to receive a handball or take an uncontested mark and then he\u2019ll keep zipping past others to break lines.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s probably not the quickest player in the draft pool, but should still test around 2.95 seconds for the 20 metre sprint at the combine. The thing with Parish is that he is always running and no one can match the combination of his speed and work rate.<\/p>\n

Parish loves to kick, and he can often have 20 or more kicks in a game. Most will hit the targets, as he prefers to do short sharp chips.He’s a good decision maker and with that comes a high disposal efficiency. At AFL level that efficiency may drop a little as he will be encouraged to be more bold.<\/p>\n

With his kicking talents, speed and vision, he really should start as a half forward\/midfielder at AFL level and work on his defensive pressure, whilst playing in a\u00a0Zach Merrett-like role.<\/p>\n

He’s got room to improve his defensive efforts, as his strong tank and speed should really see him taking down few more players. I see him growing into that Lachie Whitfield mould, but perhaps with a little more pace.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s still not quite at that one goal a game you\u2019d like from such an elite player, but to be fair, he\u2019s played 90% as a midfielder this year and hasn\u2019t really had the chance to show his talents up forward.<\/p>\n

Parish needs to work on his hurt factor a little bit. He\u2019s obviously got the skills to hurt a team, but if he could eliminate a few of those sideways kicks and get them at 45 degree angles, I think he\u2019d be perhaps the most damaging outside midfielder to come through in four or five years.<\/p>\n

At this stage, he looks well ahead in his development compared to Josh Kelly in his draft year. Parish has become\u00a0so much better on the inside this year, whereas Kelly didn\u2019t really show that side to his game at all in his draft year.<\/p>\n

Parish is an excellent stoppage player. His core strength is good enough for him to win a bit of his own ball on the inside. What\u2019s really damaging though is his ability to read the tap then get away from the centre clearance in four or five really explosive steps like Luke Shuey often does.<\/p>\n

A lack of size isn\u2019t really an issue for Parish. He\u2019s above 180 centimetres and his core strength is pretty good, so those \u2018too small\u2019 stereotypes don\u2019t really apply.<\/p>\n

Parish isn\u2019t a great overhead mark, but we saw Jack Lonie really improve in that area last year, so there\u2019s no real question mark over whether shorter players need that asset.<\/p>\n

Parish looks on par with Jacob Weitering in terms of how certain you are that he\u2019ll turn out to be an excellent player. There\u2019s no doubt over whether Parish will perform at the next level, which should see him taken by at the very latest, pick seven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Darcy Parish\u00a0(Geelong Falcons) Height:\u00a0181 cm Weight:\u00a073 kg Position:\u00a0Midfielder Draft range: Top five Strengths: Kicking, never slows down, decision making, hurt factor Weaknesses: Lack of size, defensive efforts, scoreboard impact Player comparison:\u00a0Lachie Whitfield First year impact: Rising Star nominee Kicking: Elite Marking: Average Endurance: Excellent Speed: Above average Darcy Parish is a classy outside midfielder, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"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":[235,635,642,680,49,1280,1416,1548,1879],"class_list":["post-18961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-draft-profiles","tag-afl-draft","tag-darcy","tag-darcy-parish","tag-draft","tag-geelong-falcons","tag-midfielder","tag-parish","tag-profile","tag-vic-country"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18961","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}