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Jack Darling
What do we think? Is it worth bringing him in. He is only 26, i thought he was older. Would he be half the player without Kennedy taking the best defender?
https://www.sen.com.au/news/2019/06/...agles-forward/
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
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Re: Jack Darling
News is slow atm. Needs to play second fiddle so assume Naughton forward. We'd had to eat right into that war chest as well. Even with a gun forward in Kennedy Darling has a lot of nothing games. Still, he might except marginally more than what he's on to come over and shore up his super. I wouldn't pay massive massive coin for him. What would he be on now? 650k max?
But then again, I'm an Internet poster and Bevo is a premiership coach so draw your own conclusions.
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Re: Jack Darling
Originally Posted by
Twodogs
Darling’s experience and strength would be ideal in our team desperate for key forwards. Hard to imagine why he would want to leave such a strong well performed Club. Our record on luring these type of players in the past hasn’t been great.
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Re: Jack Darling
His best and worst are miles apart, just like the team - he will fit in perfectly!
Billy Gowers will appreciate another whipping boy to take some of the heat off as well!
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Re: Jack Darling
I honestly think there is a 1% chance of this happening.
Excellent player, unfairly maligned for 1 or 2 incidents, but a WA boy with a WA partner playing for WCE with a premiership list. By god we'd have to overpay handsomely.
Western Bulldogs: 2016 Premiers
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Re: Jack Darling
I'd take him in a heartbeat.
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Re: Jack Darling
Darling is a stud but I’m gonna need a better source than Karl Langdon before I get too excited.
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Re: Jack Darling
He's like 6'3 but moves like a 6'7 player He'll be shit in a bad forward line.
But then again, I'm an Internet poster and Bevo is a premiership coach so draw your own conclusions.
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Re: Jack Darling
Originally Posted by
1eyedog
He's like 6'3 but moves like a 6'7 player He'll be shit in a bad forward line.
He kicked 24 goals in his debut season in a team that won the wooden spoon the year before.
He is serious quality but I really don't think he's gettable, certainly not at a sensible price.
Western Bulldogs: 2016 Premiers
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Re: Jack Darling
All I can think of is this
FFC: Established 1883
Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.
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Re: Jack Darling
They'd demand pick 5 or English. My two main memories of him are:
- shitting himself in the 2016 EF when Dunkley was near him
- dropping the easiest uncontested mark in the history of Grand Finals to kick a goal from 1 metre out to win the premiership last year and luckily it didn't cost them the flag. (Plus he did nothing in the GF outside of 15 minutes in the third.
So I'd keep Pick 5, English and the money.
Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023
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Re: Jack Darling
Originally Posted by
bulldogtragic
They'd demand pick 5 or English. My two main memories of him are:
- shitting himself in the 2016 EF when Dunkley was near him
- dropping the easiest uncontested mark in the history of Grand Finals to kick a goal from 1 metre out to win the premiership last year and luckily it didn't cost them the flag. (Plus he did nothing in the GF outside of 15 minutes in the third.
So I'd keep Pick 5, English and the money.
Me too.
FFC: Established 1883
Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.
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Re: Jack Darling
He's an RFA next year which may help anyone in trade negotiations.
At least (if the rumours are true) we're thinking big.
Western Bulldogs: 2016 Premiers
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Re: Jack Darling
Originally Posted by
Mofra
He's an RFA next year which may help anyone in trade negotiations.
At least (if the rumours are true) we're thinking big.
Sounds like we are all out to snag some high profile players.
FFC: Established 1883
Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.
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Re: Jack Darling
Originally Posted by
bornadog
Sounds like we are all out to snag some high profile players.
That Power is going far and wide is undoubtedly good. My preference is not Darling, but to leave Naughton, Schache & Trengove forward as KPFs, and rebuild our defence with a couple of good KPDs, slot Cordy, Wood & Young as mobile enough third talls.
Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023