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I would like this post even if it was a total lie.

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 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 !!

Yeah, i get that..... i just want to know that we dont suck so bad that nobody will pick us to be traded to. If we go into next year without adding anyone other than kids from the draft i will be concerned, as i have little confidence that our current list can improve enough to give it a genuine shake.

Lever would have to think very hard if it was a choice between us and Collingwood. For a start, the Pies have the popularity that we dont, and for some players the extra adulation alone is a tangible thing. We cant sell him on our list being better because he saw us lose to half a Collingwood side a week ago. Those sorts of things can easily tip the balance if he wasnt already 100% sold on a particular club. If the money was roughly the same, im not sure why he would pick us right now. I will hate him forever if he doesnt though. Everyone knows we are better than Collingwood right? I hope Chooks mail is right and he is on his way, but this club has crushed me so many times i just cant believe anything positive until it actually happens.

Wouldnt trade Brayshaw. Has the natural ability to become a fantastic player if he can stop getting knocked out. I like your first idea though as we wouldnt miss Bradshaw at all.

Started the year fat and unfit. Finished the year as one of the top few inside mids in the comp. Already doing at 20 what most good mids cant do until they turn 25 (if ever) Hands so fast the umpires have to guess how he got rid of the ball. Watch his possessions in slow-mo.... most are a work of art. Yeah, i would like him to kick more often as it get us more meters gained, but im not the one smashing into hardened bodies to lay my hands on the pill. Seriously, if this kid doesnt have a brownlow within 3 years i will eat my MFC cap. Best draft pick in my lifetime, considering he came as such a surprise. Essendon did really well with Parish. Looks like he will be a gun. We did even better with our pick. Get around him, and the recruiters. I heart Oliver.

OH JUST STOP IT !!!!!!! (at least i am prepared to think it could happen now.....) Had any feedback on who Kelly is leaning toward club wise?

2 First rounders and i might consider it....................................... Whats a Brownlow worth after all ?

If the deal was anything like that, i would personally make like a bandit. Watts for Lever any day of the week. Lever is 5 years younger and at LEAST as good as Watts already. *shakes hands on the deal.

From the Herald Sun, August 2 this year... "Lever’s manager, Ned Guy, is due to return from an overseas holiday next week." Have you just returned to Australia in the past couple of weeks "Steve"?

If it was Freos second rounder to us as well as Lever i could live with it. That way........... Freo gets hogan. Adelaide gets Freos first pick. (very early first round) We get Lever and second rounder. Much more likely IMO Adelaide gets reamed in this deal but we owe them one. Freo gives up a first and second round pick for Hogan. Fair-ish i think. No Way the first trade is fair.

Im buying his badge to go beside my ANB one on the new Soft Shell jacket from MFC. Its the quality of those outside your top dozen or so who define you as a team. Feeling pretty smug now after backing him in before the season started. Also drunk.... im drunk for sure. And ranting, dont forget the rants. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

LOL, the nerve of a raging alcoholic (and Essendrug supporter/apologist) telling anyone else they shouldnt boo a coach who presided over a coordinated drug cheating program. GFY Slobbo, you wont be telling me what to do. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Gil should be ashamed to show his face in public. What a [censored] creep.

Yep, kid is a footballer. Skinny and sorta uncoordinated now, but give him 2 years and he will be kicking more goals than Jesse.

Reading back through the trail of posts that come before the one you quoted, i thought he was referring to Trac being wanted by everyone.

Overrated

They absolutely were.... many thought it was a done deal... First rounder and change was the general consensus.

I would pay 2 first rounder but demand next years second rounder back from AFC.... that at least gives us 2 second rounders next year.

I was sitting up in the top deck right behind Melk when he decided to have a crack. I said to my daughter "He can kick this", and i was actually confident he could. I carried on like a pork chop when it went through. She thinks her old man knows heaps about footy players and their abilities now... Silly girl

Only if he loses the Porno Mo. And learns to kick straight. And get a bit of cosmetic facial surgery.

Yeah its true... Heard it from a PAFC connection and confirmed by googling Port contract list. They are in a lot of trouble with so many to negotiate, and a new wages bargain thingy that everyone will want a chunk of. Maybe we can shake the tree and see what comes loose?

Port have 25 players OOC at seasons end, and it sounds like they will have some trouble keeping all their top end talent. Anyone there of interest to the Dees? (sorry that question is probably a derail come to think of it)

Credit to ANB in this play as well. Obviously Gingerfreak gave an incredible handball on his non-preferred, from a pack situation, and STILL managed to hit a team-mate on the run............But it also took quick thinking from ANB to understand it was even a possibility. A few others might well have been sucked into the pack, but ANB kept moving. Im really warming to the lad.

Yes, thats exactly what he was doing. Vision made him look like a coward but in reality he was doing what any smart player should have done..... go for the ball/stay in the contest. Poor basterd gets lots of undeserved flack from that single bit of vision that doesnt tell anything like the whole story.