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

 

[Milanista28]

How are you judging this list in a few years based on the now?

I just don't see McKay, McGrath, Parish, Langford, Redman, Ridley, Wright, Duursma, Gresham and Draper ever being good enough, these blokes are on long term deals on good money, some injury prone and they all play important roles.

All of those blokes will be here next season, Merrett included, so we'll find out if they finally find some resolve and stop going to water when the pressure is on.

 

[Mikevk123]

Taken his Essendon bio out of his Instagram page..

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

Taken his Essendon bio out of his Instagram page..

Seriously? Bit sooky if so

 

[thebigboy]

Taken his Essendon bio out of his Instagram page..

Are we certain that it was in there in the first place? His page is about 60% full of Essendon posts. If he was going to do that, wouldn't he delete all the pictures too?

 

[Kyptastic]

I think Zach has a history of not posting Essendon material on his Instagram over the offseason. I recall this happened the year before his free agency season and we were all worried.

 

[JayJ20]

Taken his Essendon bio out of his Instagram page..

Are we certain that it was in there in the first place? His page is about 60% full of Essendon posts. If he was going to do that, wouldn't he delete all the pictures too?

Yep he did it seems. I remember seeing the red and black dots and maybe his number. But I'm pretty sure he has done that before to disconnect from football over the off-season

 

[JayJ20]

I think Zach has a history of not posting Essendon material on his Instagram over the offseason. I recall this happened the year before his free agency season and we were all worried.

Ah yep there you go. So I'm not the only one that remembers it.

 

[Kyptastic]

Ah yep there you go. So I'm not the only one that remembers it.

Last time he also unfollowed Essendon, which he hasn't done yet.

 

[Mikevk123]

I love Zach he’s a champion but the stuff with stringer and laverde is concerning. It explains a lot about our culture.

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

Taken his Essendon bio out of his Instagram page..

Stop the press!

 

[ARCHIE66]

I’d let him go for Nas and their first or 3 firsts.

If we’re giving you nas we’re the ones asking for something else in return

 

[ant555]

“It’s a lot of cash“: Tom Morris explains the Saints' audacious bid to lure Zach Merrett

“People close to Merrett are aware of the sort of money the Saints are prepared to offer. It’s a lot of cash, I’m told.”

www.sen.com.au

 

[Lore]

It's not just Zach who needs to agree, if he's under contract the club would need to agree as well.

I doubt he needs the money, and given the choices he had a couple of years ago and still chose Essendon, with whatever money and hopes for team success we had at that time, it seems unlikely he'd cut and run now for St Kilda's money.

And unlike Joe, I can't see Zach sitting on the fence for the rest of his contract if he decided he wanted to go and then didn't. He's more principled than any other player I've ever come across.

But...

Something like this would potentially lead to Zach getting a pay rise, and could cause a ripple effect that allows them to shake loose someone like Tsatas or Shiel instead.

 

[dank420_]

And unlike Joe, I can't see Zach sitting on the fence

nice

 

[justlookingaround]

If we can't get our shit together as a club, which I have my doubts we ever will, losing players like Merrett is just gonna be the reality of where we're at.
It's pretty much certain that we've gotta go backwards if we're ever gonna move forwards, and I think we can all agree that ZM is built to play in a team that's contending for a flag.

 

[FlyingV]

If we’re giving you nas we’re the ones asking for something else in return

Oooop we’ve got a lurker on the hook!

 

[yodellinhank]

Something like this would potentially lead to Zach getting a pay rise, and could cause a ripple effect that allows them to shake loose someone like Tsatas or Shiel instead.

Yep, all an elaborate ruse to shake a lemon from the top of the tree. After expressing their disinterest over a couple of seasons now they've surely lowered his value, it's a very diabolical plan.

 

[Duckworth]

If I was going to make something up, I probably wouldn't have picked St Kilda.... But I guess that's where the darts landed. C'mon Tom.

 

[ghostdog]

Well you are not looking at how the whole game is played. It is not reported wrongly. They are looking to make an offer. That is the game clubs and mangers play. Looking for leverage . There will be other clubs offering their two cents worth as well
. Do you expect them not to report it ? Not like it says Merrett meets with the Saints. It is just run off the mill totally standard off season stuff.

As I said, to me there's no story until something actually materialises. It is run of the mill totally standard off-season stuff, so click away!

 

[Duckworth]

As I said, to me there's no story until something actually materialises. It is run of the mill totally standard off-season stuff, so click away!

Here is the article with all the relevant quotes. I've removed the ones from Tom Morris talking gobshite...

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2024/09...plains-the-saints-audacious-bid-to-lure-zach/ “Just play it out, he’s the captain of the footy club, contracted long-term … it just couldn’t happen,” Cornes said.

Morris agrees.

That's it. No actual quotes or sources of information. It's a big pile of crap to get people clicking. Rather than defending a journalists right to create some such news, a better question to ask is if anyone is concerned about it. I think there is where your answer lies.

 

[ghostdog]

Here is the article with all the relevant quotes. I've removed the ones from Tom Morris talking gobshite...



That's it. No actual quotes or sources of information. It's a big pile of crap to get people clicking. Rather than defending a journalists right to create some such news, a better question to ask is if anyone is concerned about it. I think there is where your answer lies.

Thread title nails the guff tbh.

 

[Nifft]

I mean whatever we've been trying to build since 2020 is over. Meaning we need to do a proper rebuild from the ground up. Take St Kilda's first two selections (Battle compensation) and do it over again. This is a great draft to build on Caddy and Roberts.

3 top 10 draft picks... what could possibly go wrong?

 

[thebigboy]

Confirmed by Jon Ralph that there’s no truth in it.

Shocked.. not

 

[ant555]

Here is the article with all the relevant quotes. I've removed the ones from Tom Morris talking gobshite...



That's it. No actual quotes or sources of information. It's a big pile of crap to get people clicking. Rather than defending a journalists right to create some such news, a better question to ask is if anyone is concerned about it. I think there is where your answer lies.

It is not the media making this stuff up. They get fed the info. People need to pull their heads out of the sand.
Morris would have been fed the story. It is his job to report it. He even said it is unlikely but that is how it works. Funny how if it is Essendon then it is just garbage click bait but if it is anyone else then lets read it.
It is not a big pile of crap. It is a bloke reporting on info that a club is going to look at offering big coin to an opposition teams captain. That is the story. The fact that anyone wants to take it further and say it is crap and it will not happen is on them. That is not what was reported.
If these story's where simply crap that no one wanted to hear then no one would run with them. No one would post them. It would be a non event.
Blame the clubs and the player managers. They are the ones leaking the info. We do it as well.

 

[jmoo wan]

i knew it was bullshit - when was the last time a player from the deep state cabal establishment was successfully targeted? it doesn’t happen