He must wonder if he will get to his half-century.
Parker (25) admits he is getting sick of watching.
The diminutive first five-eighth is recovering from a rupture of his ACL in his right knee back in May, which has ruled him out of rugby for the rest of the 2016 season.
That comes on the back of a shoulder injury that ruined his 2015 season.
Parker said the knee injury was a freak occurrence and came out of nowhere.
''I was at training and the ball got kicked way behind me. I turned to get it and it bounced away from me. Then I moved my leg and my knee just went. It was all a bit bizarre,'' he said.
''I knew straight away I had done something bad. I knew what it was.''
He quickly had his operation and then began the long road to recovery.
''I went up to the farm [the family property in Duntroon] for a couple of months, helped out up there and then came back here, got into my rehab and have been mucking around with the Otago boys.
''But it is pretty frustrating. That's probably an understatement. Especially coming on the back of what happened to the shoulder last year.''
Parker landed awkwardly on his shoulder in a game in May last year, damaged it badly, and was forced to have an operation, ruling him out of the rest of the season in New Zealand.
But he went to Japan in November and played 10 games for the Panasonic Wild Knights, which he greatly enjoyed.
''We ended up winning the title in Japan and it was a lot of fun. The game is fast over there and you get to throw the ball around. All the games are played in the day so you don't have any issues with dew and stuff like that.''
His body had come right from his Japanese experience but the knee injury scuttled what hopes he had of making an impact this year.
''It's not much fun turning up to training and you just sit on the sideline and watching. You soon get sick of that.''
Parker has got back into the gym over the past three weeks and has just started running in a straight line. If that goes well, he will look at moving on to drills around his agility, such as changing direction and running and jumping.
There will be no contact drills for a while.
As for next season, Parker does not know what he will do and where he will end up.
He has not signed with the Highlanders for next year but his No1 goal is to get back to full fitness.
''I've got no plans as such. I just want to get the knee right and get back to playing rugby.''
Playing Super rugby was an option, as was heading overseas, but he did not want to look too far ahead.
He did not think he was injury-prone - ''I just hope I have just been unlucky.''
He has played 28 games for the Highlanders.
In the meantime Parker, who debuted for Otago in 2010 and the Highlanders in 2013, is the water boy for the Otago team.
''It's not a bad job. At least you feel as though you are out there being involved. It's a bit better than sitting up in the stand.''