This is on point. The poor bloke did his ACL in his first few games with us when he was finding his feet. Then after 1 year out, with multiple complications, he cops a couple of other knocks and is sidelined like much of our team was. He has only just turned 24, has shown what kind of player he can be when he's cherry ripe. Yet, posters want to through out the bust tag.
What we paid for him is irrelevant, but i'll throw it out there. picks 10 and 16. In addition, we got pick 37 back. Bias to support cases is common, but saying "2 first round picks", which in fairness it was, only paints one perspective. Saying picks 10 and 16 for Lever and pick 37, thus giving details of the deal. So you look at the player drafted, it was Lochie Obrien at 10 (on trade of the pick to Carlton) and Ned McHenry at 16. In addition, pick 37 we took Petty. My opinion is those two players would not even be in our current team. We are pushing for a premiership.
