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astbury takes the #1 forward as a rule for the tiggas, allowing rance to zone off...exactly like lever will (hopefully) do for us

Tigers zone defence was incredible today They play three talls (Astbury, Rance and Grimes) plus their run and gun thru Ellis and Houli - but it’s the way their whole midfield rolls in the contest is unreal - Crows couldn’t get it past the wing at one stage If we’re playing a zone defence with O Mac, Frost and Lever plus run and gun thru Hunt, Hibberd and Jetta, it’ll be interesting to see how the rolling zone works for us next year I seriously think Lever will contribute enormously to our side as part of a zonal defensive structure

Laird got a lot of the ball but didn’t do a lot with it

Get him in, he’s a gun Was at the match today and was clearly the best of Adelaide’s defenders under a mountain of ball coming in; the Crows midfield was slaughtered I would hazard a guess that our six untradeable would not include players who have been brought in from other sides I would have had Hogan in there for sure, but I’m guessing the six ‘homegrown’ are: - Petracca - Viney - Gawn - Oliver - Hunt - Jetta

Preseason draft picks can’t be traded Melbourne have been above board and open in trading and wouldn’t engage in such subterfuge It ain’t the Veale deal days anymore

i had absolutely no faith in him coming in, and in the first half of the season i was ropeable that he was spudding it up for us behind the ball the minute he was deployed as a defensive half-forward, i think in the gc17 game up in the alice, he was a revelation - not only was he brilliant stopping the rebound back flankers but he was a weapon anywhere inside 50 his second half of the year was exemplary and i think it's safe to say that he and hibberd have not just become automatic starting 18 players, which is all you can ask for a mature body brought in for a second round pick, but absolutely vital components of the side here's hoping he continues on where he left off in the second half of the year throughout the rest of his career in red and blue

So Warner is saying we are now offering Lever $900k a year for five or that the Crows are?

hey! got us to 100 pages!!

Does a unicorn appear when we get there?

Mark Coughlan maybe? 10 and 27 for Lever for us - I like it Carlton need to clear Gibbs to afford Rockliff presumably

Oliver is a freak and the idea of trading him for anything 'unknown' (as draft picks are) frightens me Fortunately it ain't happening

My Crows supporting mates rate Lever as the best young defender in the competition and think he's worth every bit of a straight swap for Petracca, or two picks in the first round minimum I don't know any Crows supporter who doesn't rate him super highly They are also cognizant of the fact that what they want for him and what they get will probably not match...

Fourth rounder, at best Has down SFW, and shown nothing

my crows supporting mate has jake's dad 'liking' pies' facebook pages a month or two before he 'liked' melbourne ones of the same fwiw, most crows supporters seem certain jake lever is coming to us...just a matter of the deal being done

kb was moonlighting on triple m? don't believe this one for a second, already... hall is a decent outside runner but his kicking is as reliable as tyson's

it'll be interesting to see what happens to the three recent signees: - whitfield: signed til 2020 - kelly: signed til 2019 - hopper: signed til 2019 of all their 'in-demand' players only toby greene is signed on til end of next season, and he won't be a free agent - a year short - but he'll absolutely be in-demand but 2019 could be a bounty: - tomlinson: restricted free agent - shiel: rfa - buntine: rfa - haynes: rfa - coniglio: rfa - lobb - himmelberg - hopper - kelly all either rfa's or simply out of contract

2014 preseason - thyroid issue 2015 - injuries to both hamstrings, second one pretty severe 2016 - thyroid issue 2017 preseason - brick to the head 2017 - hamstring again played more games this year than any other year and as long as we're on top of the thyroid issue he's vital to our future imo

2017 pick 10, 2018 first round for lever and a second rounder (either 17 or preferably 18) is fine imo

hibberd was relatively 'big trade' - all australian defender quality for a second round pick! - and worked out exactly as foretold

if you equate it to lever being paid $670k or so across 5 years - which is what $850k under the new cba equates to, under the old cba - does that make those who are worried about his price feel any better? i'm of the opinion that if we can get it done, we get it done crows' supporting mates think it'll happen, just a matter for what - they think he's absolutely worth two first rounders, the only way i can see that happening is if something comes back the other way we were spitballing and came up with the following: lever plus rory atkins FOR melbourne pick 10, 2017 and melbourne's 2018 first rounder OR lever plus brisbane's 2nd round pick 2017 (pick 18-20, traded to the crows for charlie cameron) FOR melbourne pick 10, 2017 and melbourne's 2018 first rounder the one i would love to take off their hands is hugh greenwood, but crows fans are adamant he ain't leaving

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21 - doesn't turn 22 til the start of next season kid is a pretty rare talent go get him dees!

will luke beveridge choke him at the brownlow again?

where's this rumour sprung from? cannot see dogs letting him go

i'm presuming something akin to: crows: get pick 5, lose lever + something else freo: get pick 10, a second round pick + something else (no idea what, obviously not mcgovern), lose pick 5, balic melbourne: get lever and balic, lose pick 10, something else (kent to freo?) i don't know how it would work at all i'd rather just pick 10 for lever