Traded #30: Brandon Zerk-Thatcher - 🚨 traded to the Pear, thanks for your service

[Lore]

Contract Status: Out of contract 2023
My Boy Draft 2023: Pick 8, 84859300

 

[ghostdog]

And good job BZT. It was great to watch you develop and to be able to say, yep, we developed that guy. I hope you can play seniors, competing with Aliir, Bergman and Rats.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

Good luck to him. Think he’ll be well suited playing with Esava and Allir

 

[Westlo]

Good luck to him. Think he’ll be well suited playing with Esava and Allir

Yep I think he'll do well at Port and will be checking out some of their games next year.

Shame he couldn't stay here and play with McKay but he probably felt he would be behind Laverde and there's also Reid and Cox in the shadows.

 

[Petrify]

Good luck to him. Think he’ll be well suited playing with Esava and Allir

It does make sense to pair him up with two extremely athletic defenders. Because boy BZT was not athletic at all. Hope he does well, I'm just glad he's not my whipping boy anymore. Laverde step on down.

 

[JT_the_Man]

Thanks BZT. Enjoyed watching your growth.

 

[DapperDon]

Thanks BZT. Enjoyed watching your growth.

I think everything grew except his moustache

 

[Yoda_]

Good luck to him. Think he’ll be well suited playing with Esava and Allir

I don't know where the three fit into the same backline tbh

 

[Algorithmic Hot Takes]

As long as we've got enough points to match when Koby comes through, all good. We probably need to start saving now because we'll need somewhere in the order of 150000 points.

Is this an example of a sentence that is grammatically correct, but bereft of meaning? Or am I just too ignorant? It's the latter, isn't it?

 

[EnolaGay]

Is this an example of a sentence that is grammatically correct, but bereft of meaning? Or am I just too ignorant? It's the latter, isn't it?

Father-son, Koby Bewick.

The rich-man's hybrid of Harley Reid, Dustin Martin and Nick Daicos.

 

[andleanback]

Weill be a very good player at the pear
Goodluck bzt! always tried your heart out

 

[ghostdog]

Is this an example of a sentence that is grammatically correct, but bereft of meaning? Or am I just too ignorant? It's the latter, isn't it?

Yes

 

[Algorithmic Hot Takes]

Father-son, Koby Bewick.

The rich-man's hybrid of Harley Reid, Dustin Martin and Nick Daicos.

Rich man you say? Well, don't hold back on the canapes, and let's rip open another female Sturgeon for the roe!
Also, would you mind blowing up that sacred site, my coal mine isn't going to build itself with all these elites protesting!

 

[fishardansin]

BZT will be very good with two really big defenders around him. His desperation and closing speed will be very good. Was an absolute spud at the start of last year and turned it all around. Good luck young fella!

 

[fairbump_playon]

As long as we've got enough points to match when Koby comes through, all good. We probably need to start saving now because we'll need somewhere in the order of 150000 points.

Word from AFL house is they plan change the father/son rules for that year so that we can’t access Koby.

Apparently we were responsible for the blackest day in Australian sport…

 

[ant555]

He will do well at Port if they play him as the second tall defenders. His only crap games for us where against brutes and GWS when the midfield did not turn up .

 

[Loonerty]

It's been an hour and they're already at page 25.

The thread starts when he first requested a trade in September

 

[Goat Hird]

In the right defensive set-up he's a gun.

 

[Bjchan13]

I don't know where the three fit into the same backline tbh

It will be interesting to see how they line up. Heres one example from their board. Looks a good side to me ready to challenge.

F: Lord - Dixon - Rioli
HF: SPP - Marshall - Horne-Francis
C: Bergman - Wines - Jones
HB: Farrell - Aliir - Houston
B: Zerk-Thatcher - Ratugolea - Williams
R: Soldo - Butters - Rozee
INT: Drew - Boak - Finlayson - Burton
EMERG: Byrne-Jones (SUB) - Georgiades - Sweet - McKenzie

 

[dank420_]

Wtf is this s**t?

I think a great name would be Roller.

 

[BrunoV]

As I understand, he is a good kid and I wish him all the best. It's nothing personal but I am glad to see the back of him. He's too limited for AFL.

How Port plans to make this work is interesting.

Allir is primarily an intercept player / modern zoning CHB. That's what Esava projects to be, too. There is no sign Esava was tracking to stand an opponent's best forwards.

The modern CHB / zoning intercept player is also BZT's best role. As even his supporters acknowledge, he's best on the number 2 forward, what ever that is supposed to be. That number 2 better not be a monster second ruck type and he'd better not be quick either because neither of those suit BZT. We know this because regardless of whether you believe we really wanted to keep BZT, Ridley often took the number 1 when he was fit and then we went and signed McKay.

In reality no one needs a specialist number 2 defender who is slow. He's a 7th year player by age, drafted as a 19 yo in 2017. It's almost a fallacy to suggest that he is going to fill out / significantly build his physical capacity. He has played a lot of footy in his time, rarely injured and no significant layoff comes to mind. At this age, he is what he is.

The weird thing is that at a technical level BZT may be the best 1v1 defender Port has. It's not that he doesn't know how to defend, his issue is purely a matter of his physical limitations.

So I suspect BZT becomes the fodder at full back with Esava and Aliir being charged with not letting opponents get away from him.

Its probably okay against bigger, slower forward lines. How it is supposed to work against more mobile set ups, I have no idea.

This is either going to work spectacularly or fail spectacularly and, unusually, I don't see much of a middle ground.

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

In the right defensive set-up he's a gun.

Gun is a big call. He’ll be serviceable in the right role.

 

[VelvetSledge]

Wtf is this s**t?

Might message Chief to see if I can give red cards on other boards

 

[jmoo wan]

Wtf is this s**t?

that would have been an awesome nickname for Brendan Lade

 

[MarkJohnson#1]

It will be interesting to see how they line up. Heres one example from their board. Looks a good side to me ready to challenge.

F: Lord - Dixon - Rioli
HF: SPP - Marshall - Horne-Francis
C: Bergman - Wines - Jones
HB: Farrell - Aliir - Houston
B: Zerk-Thatcher - Ratugolea - Williams
R: Soldo - Butters - Rozee
INT: Drew - Boak - Finlayson - Burton
EMERG: Byrne-Jones (SUB) - Georgiades - Sweet - McKenzie

Honestly, we can beat that side.

 

[yodellinhank]

Honestly, we can beat that side.

If BZT has been brought in so that Aliir doesn't have to hold Peter Wright's arm behind his back all night that could work out in our favour.