I guess if you mushed Draper and Goldy together you get something like Sean Darcy.
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Not this guy
Trade him.
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Reckon this stays quiet until the Crichton. Then it blows up if he puts the foot down on his desire to move.
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Our life is nothing but a comedy
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I donāt know if Iām just being pissy because heās leaving, or trying to convince myself of somethingā¦ but Zachās played 251 games and I really, really struggle to remember any really inspirational occasions like the Hird goal against WCE, Jobe on that ANZAC Day, Lloyd smashing into Sewell etc.
Not to say he hasnāt performed at a really high level for a long time, but I donāt recall one Zach Merrett moment where Iāve jumped out of my chair with excitement and just gone āFARRRRRRRRK THATāS OUR CAPTAIN!ā
Tell me if Iām wrong, but in my mind, heās pretty good at footballing, but heās hardly an inspirational captain.
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āOMG IS THAT VANILLA???ā, said Brad Scott excitedly.
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He was pretty good in last yearās Anzac Day and heās definitely had breakout quarters where he has turned the game off his boot. I am struggling to think of games in particular but that could be because lots of his work is linking up with others.
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Yes. You are being pissy. Blitzers now going to some lengths to denigrate Merrett.
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Nah, not entirely fair.
His weakness has always been lack of captains goals and the like.
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Iām not meaning to denigrate at all CJ, hence the qualifier in the question. I just think at the end of his career his highlight reel will have fewer inspirational moments than others who have held the position of Essendon captain.
But happy to be proven wrong.
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Nah thatās fair IMO.
I donāt think itās denigrating him either. You can acknowledge that he is a very good player who consistently performs at a high level, which just about everyone here would agree with, whilst simultaneously believing that heās not a guy who necessarily seizes big moments all that often (especially around goal) or inspires by putting his body on the line.
Heās an absolute pro who just does most things to an above average to high standard
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Brad is hoping like anything that Rosa orders 6 of those
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I just want to say if Merrett stays Iāll be happy but I still wouldnāt buy and if his clothing.
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Letās swap him for Jobeās Brownlow.
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Just checked his 3 X finals performances. Absolute hot garbage
Now come to think of it goes missing in big games
Move this spud on heās ā ā ā ā
I think in comparison to real match winners like Bont, Danger, Martin even Daicos now Merrett very rarely grabs the game and will boot 2/3 goals in the final quarter and win the games. But his around the ground efforts even in 2/3 of our earlier games this year we won he was quite clearly BOG and the reason we won games in the final Q.
Edit: Still trade the ā ā ā ā .
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Not every captain has to be āHimā.
They do have to be loyal though.
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Heās a very different style of player to the guys who can physically impact in those obvious moments. Merrett kills you with a thousand small cuts. And if weād ever managed to draft one of those bigger mids , Zach might have been able to get forward of the footy more.
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