6 hours ago, Abe said:

Surely we'd have to look at getting a three way trade done with the crows and blues 

although the blues are known to greatly overrate their own players. This is evident with SOS cleaning out all his picks from the giants 

My complicated attempt would be 

we send sam frost and our second rounder ( 28) to the crows for their first rounder (16-18) 

we send (16-18) and 2018 second round pick for Bryce Gibbs. 

Bryce Gibbs goes to Adelaide in exchange for jake lever 

jake lever comes to us. 

 

Crows get Gibbs, frost and a second rounder for a first rounder and lever 

we get lever for frost and 2 second rounders 

blues get a first and a second rounder for Gibbs 

 

we get jake lever into the club and retain our pick number 10 and 2018 pick 

 

Prepared 2 lose Frost like we keep our first round picks

4 hours ago, Abe said:

So is Nathan jones and we'd want more than a first rounder for him if he requested a trade 

What we want and what we'd get are 2 completely different things.

And no, i don't think Jones is worth a first rounder either (age the obvious reason)

It's on!! - https://www.facebook.com/TheZanottiFiles/

 I'd say Zanotti has around a 95% strike rate

 

#LeverWatch

It's going to take a very large offer to change the course of Jake Lever's future.

It's our understanding that he has verbally committed to Melbourne for 2017 and beyond.

Edited September 3, 20177 yr by Danelska

19 hours ago, Moonshadow said:

I know he was simply asked the question and answered honestly, but I liked it much better when under Roos we stfu about potential trades and talked only when they were done. Of course the media now paints it that we expect Lever to saunter over to us.

It's not hard to either shut up or play dumb and not give away stupid headlines.

FMD! Is there a worse club at premature expectation than the MFC?

Have a read of what he is actually quoted as saying, nothing controversial at all.

2 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Have a read of what he is actually quoted as saying, nothing controversial at all.

Of course, and if you read my post you'd see that I did

We don't need players commenting on potential trades. After saying he knew nothing of it, Pig should've played a straight bat and said "that's the domain of the recruiting guys", rather than commenting on media rumours and stating that he'd love to play along side him. Media training 101 really

Individually it's a storm in a tea cup, but with all the other Lever media hype we will look stupid yet again should this trade fall through. Hopefully it won't 

Rumour going around that jakes mrs has resigned from her job and is moving back to Melbourne. 

Source is about 50/50 so make of it what you will just passing it on 

43 minutes ago, Abe said:

Rumour going around that jakes mrs has resigned from her job and is moving back to Melbourne. 

Source is about 50/50 so make of it what you will just passing it on 

Is he even married?

Edited September 4, 20177 yr by AzzKikA

5 hours ago, Danelska said:

It's on!! - https://www.facebook.com/TheZanottiFiles/

 I'd say Zanotti has around a 95% strike rate

 

#LeverWatch

It's going to take a very large offer to change the course of Jake Lever's future.

It's our understanding that he has verbally committed to Melbourne for 2017 and beyond.

'For 2017 and beyond'.

Geez I wish we had him about 2 weeks ago against Collingwood.

2018 and beyond haha

27 minutes ago, AzzKikA said:

Is he even married?

Don't think so, gf I was told 

5 hours ago, Danelska said:

#LeverWatch

It's going to take a very large offer to change the course of Jake Lever's future.

It's our understanding that he has verbally committed to Melbourne for 2017 and beyond.

North have $2m+ to splash around.  Watch them come and trump MFC offer.  They are desperate to get an 'in-demand' player.  They also have better picks to offer the Crows.

Crows have shown they will play hard ball with trades in recent years.

Lots of water to go under the bridge still.

Edited September 4, 20177 yr by Lucifer's Hero

1 hour ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

North have $2m+ to splash around.  Watch them come and trump MFC offer.  They are desperate to get an 'in-demand' player.  They also have better picks to offer the Crows.

Crows have shown they will play hard ball with trades in recent years.

Lots of water to go under the bridge still.

I was told Kelly knocked back North as he saw them as struggling in the next few years. If he views them like that and presumably his manager too, they may have gone off the radar as a destination club and money alone may not get top players there.

34 minutes ago, Redleg said:

I was told Kelly knocked back North as he saw them as struggling in the next few years. If he views them like that and presumably his manager too, they may have gone off the radar as a destination club and money alone may not get top players there.

Agreed.  Can't see why a player would go there.

But my concern is North interest/effort will push up the contract price and/or the Crow's trade request. 

Edited September 4, 20177 yr by Lucifer's Hero

45 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

Agreed.  Can't see why a player would go there.

But my concern is North interest/effort will push up the contract price and/or the Crow's trade request. 

If Jake choses us, its irrelevant what North has to offer trade wise as they are not involved in the deal. Adelaide may hope he chooses a team with better picks, but they wont have the option to tell Lever where he must be traded. So yeah, if jake wants to come to us, The Crows will just have to accept what we can trade.

Contract price is obviously a different story so i agree with you there.

Welcome to Ninthbourne Jake !!

 

2 minutes ago, ding said:

If Jake choses us, its irrelevant what North has to offer trade wise as they are not involved in the deal. Adelaide may hope he chooses a team with better picks, but they wont have the option to tell Lever where he must be traded. So yeah, if jake wants to come to us, The Crows will just have to accept what we can trade.

Contract price is obviously a different story so i agree with you there.

Welcome to Ninthbourne Jake !!

Crows probably will but I think it is bit of a myth to say that they have to.  They can play hard ball like GCS did with O'Meara, forcing Hawkes to sell their 2018 1st pick cheaply to the Saints. 

Crows have shown they won't just play the game in past deals; they fight for what they want and don't fold lightly.

And, Jake may be seduced by the $$$ North might offer...It wouldn't be the first time a player has been diverted to another club:  Clarke, Tippett and to a lesser extent Buddy. 

My initial point was a deal isn't done until its done. 

Just now, Lucifer's Hero said:

Crows probably will but I think it is bit of a myth to say that they have to.  They can play hard ball like GCS did with O'Meara, forcing Hawkes to sell their 2018 1st pick cheaply to the Saints. 

Crows have shown they won't just play the game in past deals; they fight for what they want and don't fold lightly.

And, Jake may be seduced by the $$$ North might offer...It wouldn't be the first time a player has been diverted to another club:  Clarke, Tippett and to a lesser extent Buddy. 

My initial point was a deal isn't done until its done. 

No doubt about it. Cant count your chickens and all that.

Im sure Adelaide will drive a hard bargain. Every club has the responsibility to extract the best deal possible when a quality player leaves. 

Sure, he could be seduced by the big bucks, but so far there has been zero indication Nth are even in contention. (Cue Mitch Clark scenario..........)

My fingers are crossed we land him as i believe he will be a huge addition to the side. Mac Snr could very well win the Coleman next year lol. *jks

 

If it's the money he is more concerned about them let him go, have fun being the highest paid player at the cellar dweller team, have a chat to ablett mate, see if the money is worth it. 

 

I don't know a thing about this twitter account (if credible..etc), but the following was posted a couple of days ago...

 

9 minutes ago, JTR said:

 

I don't know a thing about this twitter account (if credible..etc), but the following was posted a couple of days ago...

 

WOW...Melbourne has exited the race...?

IF, IF true it could only mean the club has found a bigger fish or Lever's price/trade deal got too high.

Will be interesting to see how this pans out. 

Mark Stevens said tonight that Andrew Gaff is gettable. He supported the demons as a kid.

Would love Gaff and Lever this offseason 

33 minutes ago, JTR said:

 

I don't know a thing about this twitter account (if credible..etc), but the following was posted a couple of days ago...

 

Ok, Monday night just became interesting.

That Filth guernsey does not suit him.

So a couple of days after we are reportedly out of the Lever race we sign up our OOC tall defender?

Might be something to that then...

Tweeted 2 days ago we pulled out of the Lever race but yet this morning the Zanotti  Files guy posts on Facebook Lever has verbally committed to us for 2018 and beyond.

Who do you listen to?

23 minutes ago, Demon77 said:

Ok, Monday night just became interesting.

That Filth guernsey does not suit him.

Not really, look at his post the day before, Lever was signed up to the crows for 2 years. Just another lame facebook page that pretends they know what is happening

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14 hours ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

WOW...Melbourne has exited the race...?

IF, IF true it could only mean the club has found a bigger fish or Lever's price/trade deal got too high.

Will be interesting to see how this pans out. 

I had wondered  what goes as we resigned Frosty. Must be a mid we're seriously chasing