After three years with North Beach in the Western Australian Amateur Football League he joined Subiaco.
In 1990 he moved back to his home state of Western Australia and joined the West Coast Eagles but managed just one game and spent most of the season playing with Subiaco.
His performances for Subiaco were so impressive that he won a Sandover Medal the following year, in the process breaking the longest-ever Sandover "drought" by any WA(N)FL club dating back half a century to the legendary Haydn Bunton senior.
In 1994 Dargie won the award again to join Bunton senior as the only players from the Lions to win it twice.
[2][4] In 1995 Dargie joined Southport in the Queensland Australian Football League.