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wasn't he originally touted as a potential midfield option when coming through the draft?

made sense then, makes sense now

If you were to rate them now I’d actually go: Lever Marchbank Petracca Miller Maynard The maturity of Miller and Maynard as youngsters in (relatively) struggling sides has been super impressive And people who are down on Trac shouldn’t be - his consistency and approach to his football has, I think, been terrific

Rationalize it as 7 first round picks over 7 years and you might feel better (2012-18) Lever is a jet; can’t wsit to see him run out for us in round 1

gone! out for 152!! what an innings for a 21 year old...the sort of player you can build a side around not flashy, but just gets the job done very happy with the deal personally - kid is a jet and it was beholden on us to get it done

i have absolutely no issues giving 2017 and 2018 first rounder for lever and X, whatever X may be (late 2017 first / early 2017 second, or 2018 second) the kid is a jet it makes me think of what paul roos said, which is that the biggest battle with these sorts of deals is getting the player across the line - from there, it's beholden upon the trading in club (that is us in this instance) to get the deal done i'm confident we will, and we won't look back in 2018 and beyond

shot! been a slow and steady innings for jake, but he brings up the 150

my favourite bit was when he talked about all the players crows have brought in from other clubs who basically form the nucleus of their side: - jenkins - lynch - betts (free agency acquisition, no less) - jacobs he forgot about seedsman, hampton, cheney and the retiring thompson too... it really was a 'we want to have our cake and eat it too' moment

how about we 'settle' (and don'tcha just love that notion) with a fluke flag, and then four in a row two or three years later?

converted wife into a demon when she was 15 and i was 17...21 years and three junior dees later and all i want now is some fricken success - and i'm talking hawthorn-like twenty year dynasty not some willy nilly one-off fluke premiership - to justify my selection... (and only really posting this to keep the lever run rate ahead of the watts' innings)

i always prefer small negating forwards who can at least show the ability to be in the position to score i think the fact that he's under contract and not quite best 22 / too good for vfl will see him in the same position in 2018, and then it's a matter of - as you say - injuries giving him opportunity, and if he can make the most of them across his 10 games, he kicked no score once, 0.1 three times, 0.3 once, 0.4 once, 1.0 once, 2.0 once, 2.1 twice for 7.12 turn those zip goals into 1.0 twice, 2.1 and 3.2 and all of a sudden he's really contributing to the side he gets to the right spots; he doesn't make the most of his opportunities

his first game back and first half against tigers were really strong then we found a way to play essentially without a ruckman his form in the vfl would have appeared to have not been compelling enough to get back into the senior side, and it's amazing really that he got nine years on a senior list i can't really see him getting picked up by another club to be honest

he has several factors in his favour - his speed, his demeanour, his brashness, his ability to hit the scoreboard he has several factors going against him - his lack of discipline, his ability to hit targets by foot, his propensity for doing stupid things he's one of those classic not quite best 22 / probably too good for the vfl players he'll need to lift in 2017 to command a spot in the mfc side, but he is capable of doing so i actually thought he should have been in for the final round against the pies ahead of the poster / whipping boy watts, as his combative attitude was exactly what we needed

severe case of anxiety and homesickness if you believe the rumours

You think? He looks like a classic depth pick up to me I wonder if he’ll be part of the mooted Hogan to Freo (2017 trade period edition) deal...

lever's season was better than tex, lynch, and arguably betts pick 27 might get the deal done now eh

shoutout from toot toot! i don't care if he's our highest paid player, personally he's a very, very good player

when injury-free, i believe he's never been dropped the football dept clearly has massive faith in his ability to deliver at afl-level his body has consistently let him down big opportunity in 2018 looms

clearly so do their players sloane to leave as a free agent at the end of next year?

afc saying vic-based club, every reporter confirming it as the dees

Lever is believed to have informed the Crows of his wish on Tuesday and is certain to nominate Melbourne as his preferred destination. jake niall confirms he's requesting a trade: https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/jake-lever-officially-tells-adelaide-that-he-wants-to-be-traded-to-victorianbased-afl-club/news-story/18ed1449aba092ba0cc8661635f295cc

hits more targets by foot than danger and is seven years younger

Incorrect He wasn’t eligible for father-son, and if had been, they would’ve snapped him up, plus Murray was the 1958 skipper at the Pies and his grandfather - the story is pretty well known, can’t believe you could get this one so wrong Kelly, at the Crows, was overlooked as a father-son, as was Stewart ex-GW$, now at the Peptides I’m disappointed that Kennedy failed to come on - his underage football was electric

ch7 adelaide was reporting the very same last night and the minute he does we would seemingly hold the whip hand in negotiations

that is a pure fluff story there's so much garbage written and spoken at this time of the year that it's bordering on ridiculous all purely clickbait