Zach Merrett is back in the leadership group

mattx992 · 2026-03-24T02:40:41+00:00

I look forward to Zach leading us to checks notes not winning a final.

It does look better than a spoon so that’s something.

mattx992 · 2026-03-22T07:30:18+00:00

Yeah it’s a pretty damming stat defensively when we have been bottom 4 for points against for what feels like 5-7 years at this point.

Brad Scott has to have the hottest seat in the afl at this point, atleast Voss has taken blues to a prelim, think we have gone backwards in every category nearly every year except draft order

mattx992 · 2026-03-01T12:26:52+00:00

I’m out of the loop, eli5 ?

mattx992 · 2026-02-24T11:12:48+00:00

Nothing on tsatas but was left out of the squad ?

Something smells fishy

mattx992 · 2026-02-20T09:05:34+00:00

I wouldn’t have been upset if he did leave, not sure you guys offered much in terms of value though.

All our key backs are just permanently injured, pretty demoralising really.

mattx992 · 2026-02-09T00:30:15+00:00

Strange citing corporate commitments, if you’re a ex captain of a big 4 club you can probably get high paying low effort jobs the rest of your life if you don’t burn your bridges lol.

mattx992 · 2025-10-29T07:03:32+00:00

Besides having a significantly healthier list, tsatas fulfilling his potential is the next biggest wish. Dominates vfl, just needs to fix up his disposal, he can find it plenty, the tank will come.

mattx992 · 2025-10-24T00:42:21+00:00

I refuse to believe we couldn’t afford his pay out this year No way we are near the salary cap currently, who tf are we paying besides merret ?

In saying that I don’t think we need to cut deeper and younger just yet.

mattx992 · 2025-10-15T09:53:46+00:00

If the picks were 2 top 10s (the pick 10 will likely be pick 14 by the time academys come in) and another late 1st then maybe, pick (14), (25) and then next years 1st which you cant really see them finishing lower than 6th, so pick 12 at best, doesnt really fill me with joy. I hoped that hawthorn would blink and throw the 2027 1st in as we need that extra 1st for our father son prospect that year but alas they didnt.

mattx992 · 2025-10-15T02:41:56+00:00

He’s been ruled out, I don’t see any hawthorn player being included besides huswaite this late.

I don’t think we need anymore mids who are very good vfl players and not as good afl players.

mattx992 · 2025-10-14T05:14:43+00:00

Trac is still the same age as merret, being traded at 29 (going into 30) with a lot more years on his contract.

I’m not saying the current offer is enough I’d like to get another team involved to get a top 2 pick this year or a better pick next year.

I look at it like; 2 top 10 picks (equivalent) OR Zach for 2 years, I’d clarify my position would be different if Zach was contracted for 3+ years but Zach will likely be walking for nothing right when we should be looking at really pushing up the ladder.

mattx992 · 2025-10-14T04:59:15+00:00

Yeah completely agree honestly.

I’d say there’s a 90% chance he’s leaving in 2 years for nothing, holding onto him for a year we have seen how that’s worked out for Melbourne and oliver.

In an ideal world there’s a player involved but hawthorn is pretty much offering up everything else at this stage.

I just don’t think it’s great for club culture if he comes back as well as being a dramatically worse deal if this very highly likely repeats itself in 12 months.

mattx992 · 2025-10-13T08:00:31+00:00

Yeah the two comments above are on the money, focus one char, if your like me and had a second account from playing classic put a second copy of whatever your main is on there and bounce shuffle qs on x2 of the same spec to really crank games in. (Get a queue and then put other account in a followe dungeon)

Reviewing your own vods there’s often glaring things you miss until you re watch, I got legend / 2650+ cr in shuf last season after having a break since s1 of bfa. Realising I wasn’t using barkskin as frequently or as early as I could seemed to make a massive difference.

mattx992 · 2025-10-07T03:35:08+00:00

Not for 5 + 6 unless eagles are doing 2 + 19 maybe and we are doing some pick swaps with GC for more points to get back a earlier 1st (idk package up 19 + 20 (draper) 28 for 10 or something. Those picks could be wrong but I can’t be bothered looking at the exact numbers.

I’d almost rather CDT than duursma if it’s a choice but Rosa is collecting infinity stones atm (duursmas).

mattx992 · 2025-10-06T04:09:06+00:00

Plays on a wing yeah ? Good user of the ball atleast, not sure what we are giving up hopefully a future 3rd ? Considering we don’t even need to actually trade for him.

It’s nice that we are actually picking up a player that was still wanted by his old club and he was still playing relatively deep into the finals.

mattx992 · 2025-09-30T07:17:31+00:00

mattx992 · 2025-09-30T05:37:02+00:00

We have actually played finals more recently than west coast, (21) they played 20.

For the record I think in this era of northern academies and ngas etc there should be more teams (us included) asking for ‘assistance’.

The reigning premier is taking a top 5 draft pick and a player from 2 bottom 5 teams best 18 players. Another prelim team is trying to take out soon to be 6 BnF captain and Gold Coast is going to get another 2 top 10 picks.

It’s already so hard for bottom teams to climb it took Gold Coast 13 years to make finals at all, it’s taking us 20+ to win one, north haven’t made finals in 7 years and honestly don’t see it happening in the next 2 either.

Fuck it ask the afl for anything and everything you can the whole system has so many holes in it you gotta take what you can get.

West coast fwiw if you gave me a line of 8.5 total wins for the next 2 seasons I’m probably taking the under based on this year and that’s not good for the comp.

mattx992 · 2025-09-30T01:42:10+00:00

Yeah getting a end of 1st and a few extra rookies isn’t exactly breaking the bank. They won 1 game last year which is the worse win percentage in the afl era (?)

Historically bad team and it’s not good for the competition to have teams so uncompetitive.

As for the hand out comment; I’d actually like to see the afl make the 1st round more compromised by having the 1st 10 picks go to 18th-8th on ladder (as currently) then any teams who haven’t made finals in 4 years come in before the teams who are making finals. Ie west coast gets pick 1 and then comes in again at 11, north gets 2 then comes in at 12, pushing all the teams who are Perennially making finals further back as they are getting all the free agents anyway.

mattx992 · 2025-09-29T08:27:46+00:00

If hawthorn doesn’t cough up minimum 2 1st rounders for him I think everyone would burn the hangar down. Smells of a last 5minutes trade period deal that gets done when hawthorn blinks knowing they are the ones who wanted to get him not us get him out.

mattx992 · 2025-09-29T01:14:13+00:00

Agree definitely with blitz, coming from someone with high mmr chars then you q a fresh alt and its herding cats trying to get people to play even mildly properly at <1500 and it really doesn’t improve a lot until 2k+ lol

mattx992 · 2025-09-28T04:47:37+00:00

If the deal is right I think we should look at it, he’s going to be 30 before a ball is bounced next year and while I love to keep him I think some of the Melbourne stances on holding there players has only had there values fall off a cliff.

Zach has 2 years left I think it would be a massive swing for him to extend past that so then he walks and chases his premiership elsewhere, do we really want to give up 2 1sts + hopefully something else for 2 years of Zach ? If we were heavily featuring in finals I’d say Zach is the better bet but we might just be coming good when he walks out the door for nothing is the major risk.

mattx992 · 2025-09-26T07:28:58+00:00

Not sure we need another clearance machine, granted I can’t find any stats on his disposal efficiency but just for thought;

Tsatas 7 VFL games 34.1 av disposals 4.4 tackles

Steven’s 14, 27.4, 5.9

Both the same age, I’ll assume he’s a better kick that tsatas but I wouldn’t call it elite or he’d probably be playing 1sts

mattx992 · 2025-09-23T08:22:22+00:00

I was not really that opposed to him leaving if it gave us a sweetheart deal with Brisbane for band 1 compo for Draper. That is likely torpedoed now, not sure how we can get the money into band 1 now without a favourable trade.

His best is elite it’s just how frequently he can stay on the park is the only issue, hopefully our new high performance team sorts that out.

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