My concern with Darrou is his one-on-one contesting in defence is ordinary when I've seen him play at Coburg and it would be exposed and exploited by the opposition at AFL level. While he might have the physical size to play key defence, he plays more like a mid-sized defender who distributes the ball across and out of the backline.
Richmond’s Elite Performance Manager, Peter Burge talks about the upcoming preseason:
* When all the older boys get back, the program will progress. It won’t change too much, but it’ll probably just get harder. It will be a pretty solid pre-Christmas period. Last year, with a new program, they experienced about 80% of the program's capacity and being a new program I didn't want to tip them over the edge. But now that I know them and they understand the program, we'll be able to step it up and take them to some new levels.
* Increasing the program is increasing the duration or intensity, number of reps, that sort of stuff. So now we've got some good information on the guys and where they sit physically, we can look to build on that and set some new targets which we will achieve.
After fading away badly in the second half of the Elim. Final (as well in some other games during the year), I would hope we'd be working on bettering our fitness levels to maintain our intensity for longer over four quarters.
