{"id":301448,"date":"2025-10-14T20:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=301448"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:25:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:25:25","slug":"hawthorns-trade-bid-for-essendon-captain-zach-merrett-rejected-as-afl-deadline-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=301448","title":{"rendered":"Hawthorn&#8217;s Trade Bid for Essendon Captain Zach Merrett Rejected as AFL Deadline Looms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Essendon rejected Hawthorn&#8217;s initial trade offer for captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=zach-merrett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Zach Merrett\">Zach Merrett<\/a>, who wants to join the Hawks after five seasons without finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposal included Hawthorn&#8217;s No. 9 draft pick, a future first-rounder, a second-round pick, and midfielder Henry Hustwaite, but Essendon views it as inadequate for the contracted 29-year-old star. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With less than 24 hours until the 2025 AFL trade period ends, Hawthorn considers adding players like Changkuoth Jiath or Mitch Lewis to the deal, while Merrett&#8217;s manager warns of public escalation if talks stall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essendon rejected Hawthorn&#8217;s initial trade offer for captain Zach Merrett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":301449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10578,35],"tags":[18382,12490,993,8,18455],"class_list":["post-301448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afl","category-breaking-news","tag-2025-afl-trade-period","tag-essendon-football-club","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria","tag-zach-merrett"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301817,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301448\/revisions\/301817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/301449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}