It was looking grim at halftime with the Dogs leading by 54 points and Essendon having scored just one goal after two quarters. <\/p>\n
Alexandra Merrett posted a video to TikTok with the caption: \u201cWhen your husband\u2019s team is losing by 50 points at halftime so you go to Gimlet instead.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
She had shared a \u201cget ready with me\u201d outfit check before the game on her social media channels.<\/p>\n
The clip showed her sipping a glass of wine at a restaurant, presumably Gimlet, one of Melbourne\u2019s famous gourmet hotspots. <\/p>\n
Essendon did put up a fight in the second half against the Bulldogs, scoring eight goals in a far more competitive showing to reduce the margin to 34 points. <\/p>\n
On Tuesday evening however the eyebrow raising post was nowhere to be seen on Alexandra\u2019s TikTok account.<\/p>\n
The social media clip sparked fierce backlash, with commentators arguing it wasn\u2019t exactly helpful for Merrett, who has returned to the Bombers and stepped down from the captaincy after requesting a trade to Hawthorn last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact of the matter is \u2026 it\u2019s not helping Zach\u2019s relationship to mend with the fans and the club and the playing group,\u2019\u2019 former Carlton player Sam Docherty said on 3AW.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re distractions. I know this is the way that life is these days, but at the same time when you drill it down is putting that up really worth the scrutiny that your husband is going to get.\u201d<\/p>\n
Veteran footy reporter Caroline Wilson added: \u201cI did find the Alex Merrett post a little bit unusual.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the backlash, Alexandra received support from former AFL star Dale Thomas and fellow WAG Tayla Broad.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust when you couldn\u2019t think the world was any more cooked, we\u2019ve now taken exception to the fact that Alexandra Merrett has gone to Gimlet instead of watching the second half of the game,\u2019\u2019 Thomas said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne, Gimlet, an amazing establishment; two, it\u2019s heaps better than watching that absolute putrid nonsense the Bombers were serving up; three, they actually dominated the second half, so Bombers fans, maybe encourage her to get there from the start of the game, (you) could win one. This is absolutely ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n
Broad, wife of Richmond\u2019s Nathan Broad, commented on Thomas\u2019 post: \u201cEveryone needs to let the girl live. It isn\u2019t her job ahahah !!! Well said.\u201d<\/p>\n
Merrett is contracted at Essendon until the end of the 2027 but his future remains a talking point given the Bombers\u2019 struggles.<\/p>\n
Essendon next take on the Melbourne Demons on Saturday at Gather Round in Adelaide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wife of Essendon veteran Zach Merrett has deleted her TikTok upload that caused a stir after she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,244438,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-591584","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-ncaeditorialkayo","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591584","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=591584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}