Recommitted Zach Merrett [UFA 2027] - Wanted a trade to Hawthorn, but it didn't get done

[Lore]

There we go, that's the clip:

 

[Achy Blakey Heart]

This will backfire spectacularly for Essendon.

 

[TazHawk15]

Is Merrett 30 years old? surely someone in this thread would have mentioned it by now...................

Or we could all just mention the Hawks offered up the biggest trade bounty in the history of trades for a 30yo.

 

[TazHawk15]

This will backfire spectacularly for Essendon.

Excatly, they just don’t realise it yet.

 

[ReturningHawk]

On the night it makes no difference but as trade value it does.

If you had pick 1 this year with academy tied prospects rated 1-10, and traded for pick 1 next year with no top 10 tied academy prospects, one is clearly worth more in the trade.

The “real value” of picks needs to take into account how many academy players are expected before that pick.

No, the real value depends on the value of the available players. Pick 1 this year is clearly not worth what it was in 2023, which has nothing to do with academies.

 

[cAsEy_18]

This will backfire spectacularly for Essendon.

Haha no it won't.

We'll suck if we trade him and will continue to do so for a while.
We'll suck if we keep him and will continue to do so for a while.

The only enjoyment out of the sport we have to take is for certain clubs we don't like not succeeding. Collingwood and Hawthorn losing prelims this year was a joyous occasion for us. Hawthorn having to go into next year crossing all fingers that a broken Will Day plays more than 10 games is a win for us.

It is sad. But it's all we've got.

 

[jannissary]

This will backfire spectacularly for Essendon.

brownnosing the hawks is #pathetic

 

[BringFevBack2021]

Zach Merrett to exercise his Money In The Bank option per the AFLPA Players Code and Rights Act of 2025 (Section 3.2)

If a players current club refuses to trade them they have the right to cash in their Money In The Bank once per their career and challenge their Coach to a one versus one hand-to-hand combat match. Should the player win, they have the right to move to a club of their choice.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

This will backfire spectacularly for Essendon.

not really

pro's / cons for both situations.

 

[TazHawk15]

Haha no it won't.

We'll suck if we trade him and will continue to do so for a while.
We'll suck if we keep him and will continue to do so for a while.

The only enjoyment out of the sport we have to take is for certain clubs we don't like not succeeding. Collingwood and Hawthorn losing prelims this year was a joyous occasion for us. Hawthorn having to go into next year crossing all fingers that a broken Will Day plays more than 10 games is a win for us.

It is sad. But it's all we've got.

Speaking of joyous how much joy have you gotten out of the fact the Hawks have been the most successful club since they joined the competition 100 years ago.

That’s Essendon supporters biggest problem they take joy in others not winning Premierships but ignore the very reasons why their club is a basket case.

 

[Dons4days]

Zach Merrett to exercise his Money In The Bank option per the AFLPA Players Code and Rights Act of 2025 (Section 3.2)

If a players current club refuses to trade them they have the right to cash in their Money In The Bank once per their career and challenge their Coach to a one versus one hand-to-hand combat match. Should the player win, they have the right to move to a club of their choice.

Will this be televised?

 

[Come back Cyril]

1. The bids mean nothing as Essendon cannot access those players taken with those picks anyway. It is the most redundant conversation of all trade periods.
2. They can still make moves on their list. They can delist players and bring others in via draft, DFAs and SSP. Their list isnt locked in. The list isnt finalised until post christmas.
3. Giving them pick 9, allows them to make a proper approach to get up in the draft if they want to, or potentially push one of their top 10 picks into next year

Genuine question, how have you landed on them swapping Merrett for Hustwaite.

The amount of capital that Hawthorn offered is worth more than what Brisbane sent to Freo for Neale (25 years old), more than what Richmond gave GWS for Taranto (25 years old) and more than what WCE paid for Kelly (24 years old).

You might have just set us all up for a genuinely terrifying journey to an alternative reality if they tries to answer your question

 

[Jeremy McLovin]

Zach Merrett to exercise his Money In The Bank option per the AFLPA Players Code and Rights Act of 2025 (Section 3.2)

If a players current club refuses to trade them they have the right to cash in their Money In The Bank once per their career and challenge their Coach to a one versus one hand-to-hand combat match. Should the player win, they have the right to move to a club of their choice.

Not sure if that'll play out well for Merrett. Brad may seem unassuming but it's safe to say he likely has a lot of pent up rage.

 

[TazHawk15]

brownnosing the hawks is #pathetic

Give us your take on arse sore WCE supporters and other supporters who have been brown nosing Essendon,.

Or is that different?

 

[Achy Blakey Heart]

Haha no it won't.

We'll suck if we trade him and will continue to do so for a while.
We'll suck if we keep him and will continue to do so for a while.

The only enjoyment out of the sport we have to take is for certain clubs we don't like not succeeding. Collingwood and Hawthorn losing prelims this year was a joyous occasion for us. Hawthorn having to go into next year crossing all fingers that a broken Will Day plays more than 10 games is a win for us.

It is sad. But it's all we've got.

Wow. That is truly pathetic.

 

[BringFevBack2021]

not really

pro's / cons for both situations.

Zach stays

pros:
- cool lil dude wins another BnF because Nic GOAT Martin is out injured

cons:

• reddog wants to punch on with Zach every day
• Zach is captain but the boys are playing candy crush when he talks
• Essendon get relegated to the EDFL
• Scott starts eating way more focaccias and accumulates Dew levels of girth due to the stress he has as a coach having a cool lil dude running around racking up 50 touches a week but losing by an average margin of 50 points

 

[Svenes7]

Haha no it won't.

We'll suck if we trade him and will continue to do so for a while.
We'll suck if we keep him and will continue to do so for a while.

The only enjoyment out of the sport we have to take is for certain clubs we don't like not succeeding. Collingwood and Hawthorn losing prelims this year was a joyous occasion for us. Hawthorn having to go into next year crossing all fingers that a broken Will Day plays more than 10 games is a win for us.

It is sad. But it's all we've got.

Connected to this on a deeply spiritual level

 

[jannissary]

Give us your take on arse sore WCE supporters and others who have been brown nosing Essendon, or is that different?

i think it’s pretty on the nose & they’re still rightfully upset hawks screwed them over last season (noticing a pattern here)! i’ll presume you feel the same way about sycophants supporting your mob

 

[kaiserchief13]

Zach Merrett to exercise his Money In The Bank option per the AFLPA Players Code and Rights Act of 2025 (Section 3.2)

If a players current club refuses to trade them they have the right to cash in their Money In The Bank once per their career and challenge their Coach to a one versus one hand-to-hand combat match. Should the player win, they have the right to move to a club of their choice.

Traded for free and coach fired immediately and banned for life from AFL

 

[TazHawk15]

i think it’s pretty on the nose & they’re still rightfully upset hawks screwed them over last season (noticing a pattern here)! i’ll presume you feel the same way about sycophants supporting your mob

But what about posters who make perfectly good points .

Like the neutrals who pointed out the Hawks have offered up the biggest trade bounty ever for a 30yo?

 

[cAsEy_18]

Wow. That is truly pathetic.

Haha what else do you want us to do? Go in with hope and optimism that our team achieves something and succeeds?

Gotta tell ya - that doesn't end well.

 

[Rich01]

Have you not looked at the state of their list?

How does pick 14(after bids) help Essendon in any meaningful way when all they're really doing is swapping Merrett for Hustwaite?

Really strange take.

At pick 9 in the open draft there’s likely to be three of Grlj, X Taylor, Schubert, Cumming, Sharp, Marsh, Phillipou, Farrow, Lindsay available.

After that it drops off to more speculative picks. The Bombers will grab three of these with 5, 6 and 9 if they are smart.

Hawthorns pick next year won’t be mid 20s like it will be this year with the new bidding rules, it will come in to 15-18, in a much better draft than this year.

If they netted a haul of X Taylor, Sharp and Schubert that would give them a good grounding to reset with the other juniors that have arrived in the last couple of years.

Add HH who could be something or nothing, but will definitely get his chance, a couple of firsts and seconds next year and then putting a watches toward a free agent or two, they have a chance to reset before Tassie comes in.

Hawks have made the play. If they throw in one more F2 I think the Bombers would be mad not to take it for a 30 year old that doesn’t want to be there.

 

[jannissary]

But what about posters who make perfectly good points .

Like the neutrals who pointed out the Hawks have offered up the biggest trade bounty ever for a 30yo?

biggest ever? i doubt it. a plodder who’s been in the system for 3 years and only managed 10 games or whatever isn’t exactly a “great deal”, neither are devalued first round picks and future picks when drafts are compromised as is.

didn’t answer my question, anyway.

 

[Coasters7]

Or we could all just mention the Hawks offered up the biggest trade bounty in the history of trades for a 30yo.

Perhaps you should be more pissed at your own club for being so reckless when you’ve already been told no

 

[jannissary]

Perhaps you should be more pissed at your own club for being so reckless when you’ve already been told no

hawks need to get what they want!!!! it’s so UNFAIR that they’ve continually been told no, they still deserve to get exactly what they want!

 

[TazHawk15]

i think it’s pretty on the nose & they’re still rightfully upset hawks screwed them over last season (noticing a pattern here)! i’ll presume you feel the same way about sycophants supporting your mob

Does this pattern you are noticing include how the idiots running the WCE when given the choice of the Hawks 1st and 2nd round draft picks or the 1st and 2nd of a team that won 2 games out of the last 13 the previous season, they chose the latter?