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

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There we go, that's the clip:

 
Mitchell is kinda backed into a corner here. On one hand, he goes all in for an exciting flag tilt. On the other, he looks like a twit to his 'time is now' playing group.

Hawthorn missing out on Merrett is worse for them than Merrett being held to his contract is for Essendon. Welsh knows this and is playing it well. The Hawks will offer up more and get their man and everyone here can stop pissing their pants.

Either that or Welshy proves himself a massive idiot (entirely possible) by forcring Merrett to stay and both clubs walk away as big losers from a trade fiasco.

9, 31, 43 and F1. Take it and run, Dons. Give your fans the only taste of success we can reasonably expect - wins in the trade period.
 
TONYC3163 said:
No one in Hawks best 23 has any desire to play for Bombers. Will need to be more value in pick combos. Or he stays.
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Maybe Hawthorn should have thought about that before approaching Zerrett though???
 
Matilda05 said:
What time tonight does Essendon announce their new captain? Do they have a ceremony to strip the captain (current club B&F champion...again) and then tell him this is why we held you to your contract?
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I hope we announce it like our 150th pregame. And they walk out of a smoke filled tunnel just like hirdy!
 

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kaiserchief13 said:
Maybe Hawthorn should have thought about that before approaching Zerrett though???
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What you're forgetting however, is that Hawthorn had never even heard of Zach Merrett before Merrett bombarded Hawthorn with phone calls, emails, imessages. Bit of facebook, instagram, TikTok stalking and all the others. Reluctantly, Hawthorn eventually opened the door and offered an olive branch to the poor guy. But rest assured, they certainly made no approach to him, or anyone else ever for that matter.
 
FootyGuru said:
Morris says that if it was McKenzie instead of hh it would have gotten done. Morris has been hawks mouthpiece so maybe they are going to speak to McKenzie.
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we say merret not for trade, hawks say McKenzie not for trade

May as well both be liars!

Get it done
 
Matilda05 said:
Why though?
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Why should Hawthorn have checked if they had assets they could trade for Merrett before engaging in discussions to trade for Merrett?

No idea, cant think why.
 
BattlerGM said:
Mitchell is kinda backed into a corner here. On one hand, he goes all in for an exciting flag tilt. On the other, he looks like a twit to his 'time is now' playing group.

Hawthorn missing out on Merrett is worse for them than Merrett being held to his contract is for Essendon. Welsh knows this and is playing it well. The Hawks will offer up more and get their man and everyone here can stop pissing their pants.

Either that or Welshy proves himself a massive idiot (entirely possible) by forcring Merrett to stay and both clubs walk away as big losers from a trade fiasco.

9, 31, 43 and F1. Take it and run, Dons. Give your fans the only taste of success we can reasonably expect - wins in the trade period.
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I'm not sure it is though, being that bad for Hawthorn. Zach Merrit moves the needle for us yes, but if we flatten out for a year we are still in the top 9. Mitchell can show the playing group we tried to increase our talent pool but didn't sell the farm to do so.

What does retaining Zach do for Essendon's needle? Captain & Best player doesn't want to be there. Thats not great. Needle moves down
Does retaining him improve the list, no, but needless doesn't drop
 
Westlo said:
I think it was a fair offer by the hawks yesterday, but that reply by 7pm shit is some amateur hour clown shit.
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Nah we did the same with west coast last year and it worked out magnificently. Hopefully we pivot and find other ways to improve the club. The offer is way overs already, if they add a gun player we may aswell shut up shop. The poor aflw girls will be shattered that sexist pig zac merrett is back to terrorize them. I don’t know how Zac will be able to live with himself not living upto the extremely high standards that mason redman has set
 

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Matilda05 said:
I'm not sure it is though, being that bad for Hawthorn. Zach Merrit moves the needle for us yes, but if we flatten out for a year we are still in the top 9. Mitchell can show the playing group we tried to increase our talent pool but didn't sell the farm to do so.

What does retaining Zach do for Essendon's needle? Captain & Best player doesn't want to be there. Thats not great. Needle moves down
Does retaining him improve the list, no, but needless doesn't drop
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Just a heads up its Merrett.

You need to spell it right or TazHawk15 will quote every post of yours mocking you.
 
Matilda05 said:
I'm not sure it is though, being that bad for Hawthorn. Zach Merrit moves the needle for us yes, but if we flatten out for a year we are still in the top 9. Mitchell can show the playing group we tried to increase our talent pool but didn't sell the farm to do so.

What does retaining Zach do for Essendon's needle? Captain & Best player doesn't want to be there. Thats not great. Needle moves down
Does retaining him improve the list, no, but needless doesn't drop
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Disagree.

Zachs a sook sure, but he is a professional. Plenty of upside keeping him. Sets good training standards and will show the young guys on our list the desire to win. We already have a large amount of draft picks so its not dire if we don,t take yours. We don't have that many list spots to fill.

Our needle cant really drop more than it has.

I think the Hawks offer was OK for us to trade him, but clearly we want more. I am OK with backing Rosa in.

If we can somehow turn HH into McKenzie, than wowee what a bonanza!
 
HirdsTheWord said:
Disagree.

Zachs a sook sure, but he is a professional. Plenty of upside keeping him. Sets good training standards and will show the young guys on our list the desire to win. We already have a large amount of draft picks.

Our needle cant really drop more than it has.

I think the Hawks offer was OK for us to trade him, but clearly we wont more. I am OK with backing Rosa in.
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Your problem is that, like always, it's not your football department making these decisions.
 
Need a proven player in return for our best player. Not just draft picks.
If not from Hawthorn, then involve a third club.

Problem is convincing them to come to Essendon, when we are losing our most prolific player.
 
It’s funny watching multiple Essendon supporters who were saying 2 firsts and HH was a good deal, hell the Hawks even threw in a 2nd rounder and make no mistake HH will be a best 23 player for Essendon straight away.
A prominent player manager with no skin in this deal even said it was a good deal and Essendon were being childish.
These same people who said “That’s a fair deal” “We should take that” are now backpedaling because their incompetent club tells them so.

It’s like a cult, a shitty cult ….. but a cult non the less.
 

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Right now im staring at a picture of Mitch Lewis and be like

"Just take it, take the money"

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kaiserchief13 said:
Maybe Hawthorn should have thought about that before approaching Zerrett though???
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Merrett's manager made contact.

It's very funny how 3 weeks ago this was all Merrett's fault, and since Barham's been sacked it's time to praise Zach, and blame Hawthorn for being their captain's club of choice.
 
Westlo said:
I think it was a fair offer by the hawks yesterday, but that reply by 7pm shit is some amateur hour clown shit.
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Why? As reported multiple teams have asked about pick 9. If essendon don't want to do a deal why should that stop us from doing anything?
 
TazHawk15 said:
Whats so hard to understand that Zach and his manager approached the Hawks, not the other way round?
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Regardless if they wanted a trade to happen they surely thought what players they would be willing to give up that Essendon would be interested in too?? They had time to plan....
 
Did I really read that last night in here people were suggesting that Sam Mitchell deliberately leaked meeting with ZM? Yeah, I'm sure he thought those headlines during prelim week were a great idea 🙄
 
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