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I'd be cocky too if I was a supporter. DAT LIST.Can we stack this thread with delusional dogs supporters? How do they get so arrogant when their club has only qualified for a grand final only 3 times in their history?
.14. Essendon - talented, Paris, Francis and McGrath, lack depth though, apart from Hurley, don't have much of a backline (presuming Hooker plays forward)
. Champion Data at it again
. Champion Data at it again
Watching Merrett run around in an otherwise hopeless rabble of a team for 22 weeks has brainwashed Bombers fans about Merrett. He'd be about the 6th or 7th best mid at the Dogs, Swans, Giants, etc.
He has a point though. We probably have been overrating Jackson.Hoe Deer.
Hoe Deer.
Maybe tweet him & ask if they mixed up Melbourne & Richmond?....Has got to be a typo.....I mean, Are Prestia & Caddy really That good?
Hoe Deer.
Zach Merrett 3 seasons, 20 brownlow votes.Wowsers. I guess he only got all those brownlow votes because the umps felt sorry for us.
Merrett has out performed Boyd by a country mile to this stage of their career BUT Boyd is a young KPF who has showed glimpses of what he is able to do and that is being a match winner. Zac is great but you always have to take the fwd before the mid. If Essendon had pick one, we would have taken Boyd. If the dogs offered Boyd for Merrett now we would take it.
That being said, Merrett is an Essendon boy now and I hope he never leaves our club.
The latest Caro article on Collingwood is delusional by her lofty standards - Somehow Collingwood, Balme, Allan, McGuire, Kelly, SEN AM and channel 7 are inter-wined in the one article - Some may say ' Strands of a Cable.'
Sorry Daffo, you're gonna have to wear this one - that is utterly absurd.
Zach Merrett is absolutely untouchable. He's 21 years old, is already flirting with elite status as a midfielder, and has actively accepted significant unders from a contract perspective AND has taken it upon himself to act as a leader of the football club.
I can assure you, if you presented this view to the people who would make this call at Essendon, they would laugh you out of the building.
It's not about not rating Boyd though, it's about the fact that Merrett will be captain of this club one day and one of the best midfielders in the competition.You can cover someone like Merrett. I know he is a gun, he is one of my favourite players but I'm a big believer of KPPs are the most important on the ground and win you games of footy.
I also know that Merrett is loved at the club and I doubt he will ever leave (which is why I put in that last line) but I think it's delusional that some people still don't rate Boyd. I would kill to have someone like him at the club. If we had Boyd in 2017 I would expect us to play finals.
You can cover someone like Merrett. I know he is a gun, he is one of my favourite players but I'm a big believer of KPPs are the most important on the ground and win you games of footy.
I also know that Merrett is loved at the club and I doubt he will ever leave (which is why I put in that last line) but I think it's delusional that some people still don't rate Boyd. I would kill to have someone like him at the club. If we had Boyd in 2017 I would expect us to play finals.
It's the trade Jade's taking issue with. That said, we can pop Jade's "no club would even consider Boyd over Merrett" in here too.
Rating a KPF because they are a KPF is utterly absurd mate.
Boyd has been WELL out performed by tall players of his generation (his draft year, and the draft either side of him).
Under no circumstances, absolutely none, do you swap known elite of the same age, for nothing more than hopes and dreams. It is ludicrous in the extreme.
That doesn't make you right. Let's take a less controversial example: Daniher.I wasn't kidding.