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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)

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

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

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

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

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...

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