text: Merrell Men's Annex Mid Gore-Tex Boot,Blue...  Three design flaws.  I really wanted to like these boots, but I will be returning these.  They otherwise seem to be of decent materials, just a bad design for my feet.  Everyone's feet are different, and I'm sure these work fine for many other people.  I include enough detail that may help you decide if these will work for you.  1) he inner eyelet, of the bottom set of leather eyelets, is positioned right over the big joint in my big toe, forming an uncomfortable pressure point.  The lack of sufficient cushion material under the eyelet contributes to this.  I re-laced the boot, to not use the bottom pair of eyelets, which helped, but that brings me to 2), where the top two sets of quick lace eyelets do not have sufficient material on the tongue to cushion the crossing laces as they pull across the front of the ankle.  For some unknown reason, the leather-like tongue material on the lower part of the tongue stops short of the crossing of the top two eyelets.  3) The top part of the tongue, under the top two pairs of eyelets, is not wide enough, and doesn't fully tuck under the sides where the eyelets are located.  I don't have unusually big ankles, and so I don't find the tongue on my other boots to be too narrow.