{"id":143584,"date":"2025-09-14T22:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T22:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/143584\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T22:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T22:51:14","slug":"merrett-beyond-the-point-of-no-return-lion-compared-to-luke-hodge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/143584\/","title":{"rendered":"Merrett &#8216;beyond the point of no return&#8217;, Lion compared to Luke Hodge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Join Josh Gabelich and Damian Barrett for AFL Daily\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Zach Merrett ahead of the Round 24 match between Essendon and Gold Coast at People First Stadium on August 27, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>IN TODAY&#8217;S\u00a0AFL Daily, star journalists Josh Gabelich and Damian Barrett unpack all of football&#8217;s big issues.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; START LISTENING NOW<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Josh Dunkley drawing comparisons to Luke Hodge<br \/>&#8211; &#8216;Anything feels possible&#8217; for the Hawks<br \/>&#8211; Crows failed to get out of their comfort zone in their two finals<br \/>&#8211; Zach Merrett beyond the point of no return at the Bombers<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss a minute! Subscribe to AFL Daily NOW at <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3towZDryHPGHbgF2viXRwi?si=HLJmijtuT1iZkIc2LzA3qg&amp;dl_branch=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/afl-daily\/id1558027370?itsct=podcast_box_link&amp;itscg=30200&amp;ls=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Join Josh Gabelich and Damian Barrett for AFL Daily Zach Merrett ahead of the Round 24 match between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-143584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}