I think he is a fine pick up for you guys, time will tell if it was to early or not. Ready made player in that 21-24 age bracket which you guys so desperately lack.
In regards to us picking Langford over Leverde. Langford was highly rated by Carlton more so then Leverde, so if we picked up Leverde at 17 there was a very strong chance you guys would've gone Langford at 19 over Boekhorst. So we swapped it around, got Langford, you guys picked Boekhorst (as you rated him higher then Leverde) and we very happily picked up Leverde at 20. In regards to why he slipped? Who knows? Might be the handy work of Dorodo though. Leverde was a Essendon Grammar boy, lives 5 minutes from the club, whole family grew up barracking for Essendon. Conveniently got a ''corked thigh'' that was bad enough to put him out of the testing
Really, Essendon would cheat?