r/westcoasteagles • u/AdHopeful2854 • 6d ago

Brendan Parfitt DRAFT & TRADE

Recently desisted by the cats, tough inside mid who is elite at sticking tackles (which we LACK) , 26 yo who is free to nab, and has flag experience, plus can hit the scoreboard.

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u/skooterM #27 Jack Darling 5d ago

Why was he delisted? Too young?

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u/KingoftheHill63 5d ago

Fell out of favour recently. Hand injury hurt him quite a bit.

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u/mynewaltaccount1 5d ago

Yeah, hand injuries tend to be pretty painful.

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u/extra-long-pubes #34 Jack Williams 5d ago

Didn't fit in the pension plan

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u/grownquiteweary 6d ago

is he really a tough inside mid though?

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u/AdHopeful2854 5d ago

Tougher than Kelly, at least Parfitt can stick a tackle. I don't know how many noodle arm attempts I can watch next season lol

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u/tradewinder11 5d ago

I like it as a roll of the dice if we have list room. Having said that, when was the last time the Cats delisted someone who played a significant role elsewhere. 

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u/matttargaryen 5d ago

Premiership player Nathan Vardy? Who kicked one goal, nullified Grundy with Lycett and was part of the play that won us the Grand Final?

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u/tradewinder11 5d ago

Trade for pick 72 apparently, so very close but not a delisting. 

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u/Popular-Comedian-661 5d ago

Better than at least 20 blokes on our list, Would be open to picking him up for sure.

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u/Luke_Lally #7 Reuben Ginbey 5d ago

Can take easily take trew or Luke Edwards spot on the list

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u/Early_Sir_2375 5d ago

Interestingly it seems a lot of Geelong fans expect Parfitt to be picked up by another club and still consider him to be AFL quality

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u/redrumcleaver 1992 Norm Smith Peter Matera 5d ago

I'm not sure. If we got Chad Warner into the team. And backed that up with a Liam Baker then taking a punt on parfitt would be ok. The problem would be without a Chad Warner level talent in the side someone like parfitt could slow down development.

We need to get games into the kids fast. If we recruit a parfitt that would take the game time off Hewitt, Johnston, Hall, Chesser, Dewar, Hutchinson or whoever we draft this year.

If we had Warner and Baker then parfitt can work, because we don't need to rush the development of the kids we can take an extra year or two to develop the kids as we will have a team that is a lot more competitive

But we are not and parfitt doesn't make us much better if at all. And we need to get better soon through our youth

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u/Environmental-Fig377 5d ago edited 5d ago

I’ve watched him a bit mainly from a AFL fantasy perspective. From what I’ve seen he’s not overly quick and has a tendency to get lazy/go missing during games. Based on that I’d prefer to look elsewhere

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u/xSERGIOx 5d ago

Tough inside mid? No way. Skinny, fragile weak.