Ted Lasso

Balic for pick 64 is more than fair.

Far less than what he was being offered at other clubs... and he’s absolutely worth that

Before his extension. Now about 850k

I can 100% tell you that jakes offer does not make him the highest paid player at the club. Jesse hogan is our highest paid player, Nathan jones not far behind both ahead of our offer for lever.

God I hope he stays. I just can’t see how any trade deal doesn’t result in a net loss for ya based on watts value vs trade value

If Sloane isn’t signed by round 10 next year watch the whole club go into meltdown. They are just handling this so poorly

I think levers manager basically said he might well have stayed if the first offer wasn’t an absolute joke. They’ve totally screwed this up

And let’s be real, it won’t be two first rounders. They deal will get done

Word before the draft was homesickness was a big concern and I’ve heard it is one of the major factors now. I think he needs to head home

My take away from the last few days is that the crows low balled jake big time with the first offer, he cracked it and put himself out there and by the time the crows came back with a more reasonable offer he’d decided to leave. It sounds like the infighting from half time at the grand final hasn’t stopped. If you want to blame someone look at your key forwards and captain who looked totally shell shocked on the big stage. Lever was very solid despite being tagged and had nothing to do with the crows losing the gane

Time to teach the crows a lesson. Pick 10 only is on the table, accept it or we take him in the draft.

I would be horrified if the Melbourne footy club handled a situation like this with as little class and as much bitterness as the crows have. I view it as being extremely unprofessional. You’d have to think Bryce Gibbs would think twice about going there if this is how they treat their players.

Dan Hannebery would be handy if he wants to come on board

Oh, he has a good track record. Interesting indeed

Are we apparently landing a big fish mid?

Armatige is definitely on the trade table. The others aren’t from what seems to be getting around

definitely rance. The thing most don’t seem to realise is rance very rarely takes the number one forward.

Nah just throwing an idea out there

Jack watts and 27 to the swans, pick 14 to the eagles, and Andrew gaff to the dees

The thing is, if he digs his heels in again over lever and forces him into the draft, they’d be passing up a good deal no reason. Sorry brett but if danger is worth 9 and 28 10 and 27 is more than fair for lever. You set the bar.

I’d go national draft. I think the pies would be reluctant to use pick 6 on him. They would be the risk. Also the saints with their two picks

Hearing Balic will be doing a tour of the club within the next week or so, he has some fairly serious off field issues but also has some talent so potentially a value pick

If lever needs to go to the pre season draft he can put huge $$ on his head and we can keep picks 10/27 as well

It depends on where you value the 2018 pick. I personally would prefer to trade 10/2018 pick and then do the same trade to get back into this years first round with watts

Watts and 27 to the swans for 14 10&14 for lever and 35 Hang on to our 2018 pick and get lever