I have a feeling he is playing hampered and has been for a few weeks. Personally I think he should be rested until after the bye.
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If sore it would be a good week to rest him, Tsatas could come in and saves Merrett travelling away with the bye and a young family.
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Having a career at Essendon between 2014 and 2025 (ongoing?). Fun times. Job fulfillment levels going strong.
Clearly doesnāt like the half back move
Iām confused, I was assured he was going to win the Brownlow on here, and if he didnāt then the AFL was tampering with it.
This is true. However, I have no concern with trying it. If they ideally would love Martin to be a midfielder then something must give. Abd we need quality ball users coming out of defence and Shiel didnāt work either.
This is the year to try things. The opportunity couldnāt be better for experimenting with things this year.
Merrett in his prime is not a half back just yet, he and Harley will be in control next year
Martin isnāt a midfielder, he could be but hi value on a wing/forward of centre is too valuable
What are they doing with him?wasting our best player and captain away from the play
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Iām still sure heās not right. Hopefully the bye gives him a chance to get back to his old self.
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He canāt be right, why we are playing him, when we know we are going to get beaten is bizarre.
The difference between him now and the start of the season is stark.
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Poor game from Merrett last night, those two flops were inexcusable
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He was on brownlow pace for a while thereā¦
Heās playing like Perkins at the moment. Looks lost, little impact with his kicking and not going in hard enough.
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Hopefully the bye has come at a good time for him can relax,reload,be fresh and ready to go against GC.
The AFLās Match Review Officer has handed down one charge from Thursdayās contest between Fremantle and Essendon.
Bombers skipper Zach Merrett has been charged with making careless contact with an umpire.
The incident occurred in the first quarter of the game at Optus Stadium.
Merrett has been handed a $1500 fine, which can be reduced to $1000 with an early plea.
It is the first charge against Merrett for the entire season so far.
No other player was charged by the MRO from Thursdayās affair.
Anyone see what this charge was for?
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Brads lost the players
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it in theory could work, if you had say reid, mckay and ridley playing down there also.
the problem is you have redman, roberts and potentially him all playing attacking hbf roles, so whoās actually defending.
yes need better delivery into the forwardline, but you also need to get into a position to deliver it into the forwardline, and if he can help do that, while also helping set everyone else up behind the play, thereās value to it.
would have thought it was obvious heās been moved out of the midfield cos heās one of the few who can, they seem to be giving some of the others more gametime in there when thereās a fair chance we were gonna lose games due to injury anyway. this way you got a look, and if no one stood up and took their chance, then hopefully they move away from those players in general.
McGrath, McKay, Ridley
Roberts, Reid, Johnson
Just need another elite user to make up the back 7, ideally that guy would be able to cover the medium type forward too.
I donāt see Redman or Prior being that guy personally.
Ridley could do it but weād need to find a 3rd tall (Hayes?).
Johnson might grow into it.
And we have Nguyen who was showing plenty as another small defender before injury.
I hope the umpire he hit was Martin Rodger.
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