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The herald sun forgets that those two would have to want to move to Adelaide.

Yep. 800k under the new deal is = to about 650k under the old one. Very fair $$$ for lever and trac especially considering both will keep improving

I have heard from a couple of long term crows members that the crows were shocked by how big our offer is, they knew pretty quickly they wouldn't be able to match it.

I don't think lever will leave the crows without the offer being overs potentially in a $$$ sense but I consider him a hogan level talent and he's going to be around the all australian mark for a decade so well worth it

Adelaide will try but I think we'll get the deal done without offering up a best 22 player. Should lever nominate us of course

Collingwood supporters seem to be saying that quite a lot, I hadn't taken much notice because they're deluded

You'd think you wouldn't have to compare the two clubs for long to realise which is the better ship to jump on haha

Tonight showed how good a signing lever would be! He was the general down back and rose for the big game.

i really hope you're right

Pick 10 & 28 for jake lever and 52 first round pick and upgrade their third to second round

The thing is if frost says " I don't want to go to Adelaide " we can't force him it likely has absolutely nothing to do with lever and even if he was involved in the trade he would have only really been a small part of it. Seems to be plenty of smoke around this one but I am wary that Collingwood tend to find money for guys like this and the hawks are always a player

Don't think so, gf I was told

Rumour going around that jakes mrs has resigned from her job and is moving back to Melbourne. Source is about 50/50 so make of it what you will just passing it on

im not sure where levers currently value sits.

So is Nathan jones and we'd want more than a first rounder for him if he requested a trade

I actually think they do pretty well considering.

Would be a massive win if we could somehow keep it

Surely we'd have to look at getting a three way trade done with the crows and blues although the blues are known to greatly overrate their own players. This is evident with SOS cleaning out all his picks from the giants My complicated attempt would be we send sam frost and our second rounder ( 28) to the crows for their first rounder (16-18) we send (16-18) and 2018 second round pick for Bryce Gibbs. Bryce Gibbs goes to Adelaide in exchange for jake lever jake lever comes to us. Crows get Gibbs, frost and a second rounder for a first rounder and lever we get lever for frost and 2 second rounders blues get a first and a second rounder for Gibbs we get jake lever into the club and retain our pick number 10 and 2018 pick

Hannan hasn't had nearly the opportunity Kent has and took his spot. Another pre season and improved tank and I'd have hannan comfortably ahead of Kent.

His "exclusive" on Jesse hogan last year was proof he has no idea.

With the new pay deal it's about the same as $650k last year I reckon. Still borderline overs but he's definitely A Grade and you have to pay overs to lure guys like that

Bahahahahahahaha god he's a hypocrite.

That's definitely something for the coaches to work on. We will go nowhere if we can't start boosting our % in those games not losing or falling over the line in them. We need to be ruthless

the players I see as trade bait for the right offer dom Tyson tom McDonald aaron vandenberg jay Kennedy Harris billy stretch Christian Salem sam weideman

I honestly think the players thought there was little chance west coast could knock off the crows ( as I did as well) and that acted as a safety net in their minds and they didn't bring the effort needed early. I agree though. My expectations are finals and pushing for top 4. If we aren't in the conversation for top 4 going into the final two rounds it's probably a failed season based on our talent and the likely addition of jake lever. I think injuries probably cost us 2-3 wins this year and mental weakness probably the same again. We were only genuinely beaten a handful of times which is a positive. Min 2018 we should have no fear of any team at all.