AFL Player # 7: Indefatigable Zach Merrett (c) - 5 time Crichton Medallist! 🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅

[Beerfish]

Contract Status: Unrestricted Free Agent 2027
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 10, I Remember Bluey

 

[Donakebab]

Geelong targeted Zach from the outset and didn't let up. At least the umpires noticed and gave him a little bit of protection, because his teammates didn't seem to.

 

[astrowizzle]

Fined for staging
Look forward to Weightman and ginnivin handi g over this years salary

 

[Vander18]

Deserved better that what his mates dished up last night.

Watching your skipper get manhandled and not firing a shot to stop it is peak Essington. We have by and large been better at stuff like this in 2023….last night was a regression. Hopefully just a temporary one.

 

[DapperDon]

Fined for staging
Look forward to Weightman and ginnivin handi g over this years salary

Don't be silly, only Essendon get sanctioned for diving.

 

[Beerfish]

I'm not putting that in the thread title. Joke.

 

[scythe]

Just watched it and it's beyond laughable. He got pushed over FFS. If we were any other club I'd say challenge it.

 

[cAsEy_18]

For something that doesn’t really matter, that’s an astonishingly bad decision.

For all the staging that actually happens, Merrett literally got pushed haha.

 

[Dudoro]

I get if people dive without being touched but he literally gets pushed. If that’s a fine then there will be 100 fines a week if they’re consistent.

Seems Merrett is hated by some as he always seems to be the one who gets suspended first for jumper punch, tackle on silvagni, dangerous tackle this year and now diving apparently.

 

[Pweter]

AFL will be getting rich if they apply that ruling with consistency.

We should appeal it just to piss off the AFL. Should be easy defence "he was pushed", then leave Michael Christian looking like a tool when overturned after 3 seconds deliberation. Not like he flew face first into the dirt.

 

[Bjchan13]

I get if people dive without being touched but he literally gets pushed. If that’s a fine then there will be 100 fines a week if they’re consistent.

Seems Merrett is hated by some as he always seems to be the one who gets suspended first for jumper punch, tackle on silvagni, dangerous tackle this year and now diving apparently.

Michael Christian doing his usual thing.

 

[jmoo wan]

is this seriously the incident?

WATCH: The incident that earned Zach Merrett rare $1k staging fine... and a free kick

The Essendon captain was fined $1000 for this incident with Mark O'Connor.

www.theroar.com.au

where he got shoved from behind?

they must know he’s leading the brownlow

 

[citizen-erased]

AFL will be getting rich if they apply that ruling with consistency.

We should appeal it just to piss off the AFL. Should be easy defence "he was pushed", then leave Michael Christian looking like a tool when overturned after 3 seconds deliberation. Not like he flew face first into the dirt.

yeah, i'd appeal
And bring vids of every other incident ignored all season and ask for an explanation.
He really doesn't like Zach.

 

[andleanback]

If he’s getting fined for that. They should be handing out 20 fines a week and weightman should have at least 10 this year.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

I felt it was appropriate that Zerrett played league game No. 200 vs Geelong given his relationship with the Lord twins.

 

[citizen-erased]

I felt it was appropriate that Zerrett played league game No. 200 vs Geelong given his relationship with the Lord twins.

it was nice of us to dish up a tribute to his 200 games with us

Soz Zach.

 

[I Remember Bluey]

I felt it was appropriate that Zerrett played league game No. 200 vs Geelong given his relationship with the Lord twins.

Don't talk about the Lord twins to me, the bastards had my dog shot for munching on a couple of their sheep

 

[Lore]

I felt it was appropriate that Zerrett played league game No. 200 vs Geelong given his relationship with the Lord twins.

Apart from all being Cobden boys, what is the relationship?

 

[jannissary]

is this seriously the incident?

WATCH: The incident that earned Zach Merrett rare $1k staging fine... and a free kick

The Essendon captain was fined $1000 for this incident with Mark O'Connor.

www.theroar.com.au

where he got shoved from behind?

they must know he’s leading the brownlow

he was already suspended this year for something similarly soft

 

[I Remember Bluey]

Apart from all being Cobden boys, what is the relationship?

A dream come true for Merrett

<p style=margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; ></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style=font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; >Everything fell into place quickly for Jackson Merrett last week...

www.essendonfc.com.au

This is about Jackson, but same same re the relationship

Merrett's football bloodlines are strong.

His great uncle was Collingwood champion Thorold Merrett, who played in two premierships for the Magpies in the 1950s and was named on the wing in the club's team of the century.

Jackson's grandmother is cousins with twins Alastair and Stewart Lord, who played for Geelong in the 1960s, and his father Greg is a second cousin of Essendon dual premiership player Roger Merrett.

 

[Lore]

A dream come true for Merrett

<p style=margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; ></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style=font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; >Everything fell into place quickly for Jackson Merrett last week...

www.essendonfc.com.au

This is about Jackson, but same same re the relationship

Merrett's football bloodlines are strong.

His great uncle was Collingwood champion Thorold Merrett, who played in two premierships for the Magpies in the 1950s and was named on the wing in the club's team of the century.

Jackson's grandmother is cousins with twins Alastair and Stewart Lord, who played for Geelong in the 1960s, and his father Greg is a second cousin of Essendon dual premiership player Roger Merrett.

The Caracalla comparison

 

[Stopher]

Given it's only a fine, it shouldn't bother me. But the circumstances around this 'indiscretion' are pissing me off more than it should.

 

[PhoenixBonez]

If it was the other way around Merrett probably gets a fine for striking

 

[brain taylor]

If it was the other way around Merrett probably gets a fine for striking

rumour has it that jack silvagni is still recovering

 

[Lore]

The skip is not tall

 

[Lore]