Jake Lever - it's good to get a feed with mates

[PrideOf]

Why does he need a reason beyond "I want to play and work and live elsewhere"?

Have you met the media?

 

[demondavey]

Yeah, nah.

Betts came for $$ because Carlton were stuffing his contract around.
Jacobs has said he left because of opportunity.
Gibbs has said his partner needed family support with a young baby.

I think you'll find Crows fans aren't sooking about Lever leaving - they're anti his whole public reasons for doing it, which are lame at best. It's as bad as Tippett's bullshit about wanting to go home ... to Sydney. Most accepted Bock, who said he left for Gold Coast cash and Davis, who said GWS' money would set him up for life.

Lever should just tell us what that extra $350k a year would buy, and how a 21-year-old can't turn down that much cash.

Is that his contracted amount? 850k per year?

 

[PrideOf]

Is that his contracted amount? 850k per year?

Who knows. One thing it isn't, and that's what the AFL has listed. Their contracted amounts for all players would be a rough guess.

 

[Lindsay_Gilbee]

Yeah, nah.

Betts came for $$ because Carlton were stuffing his contract around.
Jacobs has said he left because of opportunity.
Gibbs has said his partner needed family support with a young baby.

I think you'll find Crows fans aren't sooking about Lever leaving - they're anti his whole public reasons for doing it, which are lame at best. It's as bad as Tippett's bullshit about wanting to go home ... to Sydney. Most accepted Bock, who said he left for Gold Coast cash and Davis, who said GWS' money would set him up for life.

Lever should just tell us what that extra $350k a year would buy, and how a 21-year-old can't turn down that much cash.

So what you’re saying is Betts left for money... which is apparently the only reason Lever also left.

Adelaide as a football club has had a horribly petty off season. Lead by that moron you call captain.

 

[Lindsay_Gilbee]

I’m guessing you were happy when Griffen told the dogs to GAGF?

I like how you presume things.

You win some, you lose some. We lost Griffen and Ward, we gained Boyd and Schache. Just the way it works.

Maybe Adelaide should start really going all out and making these massive offers for players from interstate like Neale when he was OOC? Just like Port did with Ryder, Rockliff, Motlop, Polec. They also have great retention.

It’s not a state “homesickness” problem for south Australia. It’s an Adelaide football club problem.

 

[Turnover]

Whinge about travelling to Melbourne to play games. Whinge that it’s not even that far FFS!

Choose one

Whinge. For 20 minutes a day only.

 

[Dave]

That campaigner!

I mean how dare someone say one thing and then later do another. It's almost like they are human beings and not (c)robots.

 

[donkeypunchd]

Must say if Adelaide fans are still shítty after 3 months, I look forward to the saltiness if/when Sloane leaves.

 

[Xtreme]

Hope he enjoys the extra coin while playing for a team thats forever taking one step forward and 30 steps back.

 

[Sir Hugh Percy]

Because they believe it makes them look better than saying "that extra $350k a year the Demons put up will help set me up for life".

They're wrong.

Extra $350k? So you guys only offered him $400k? Geez, no wonder he left!

 

[99cents]

Food= Good
Mates= Good
Money= Good

 

[telsor]

Must say if Adelaide fans are still shítty after 3 months, I look forward to the saltiness if/when Sloane leaves.

It's clearly a SA thing.

Ask Port fans about Chaplain leaving sometime...

 

[Drewie11]

Must say if Adelaide fans are still shítty after 3 months, I look forward to the saltiness if/when Sloane leaves.

I’m looking forward to see if the extra money you had to pay Lever forces Petracca out

 

[donkeypunchd]

I’m looking forward to see if the extra money you had to pay Lever forces Petracca out

I’m looking forward to Lever improving his game for us just like Danger did. Must be the relief of knowing they don’t have to deal with that mustachio’d drongo on a daily basis.

 

[Drewie11]

I’m looking forward to Lever improving his game for us just like Danger did. Must be the relief of knowing they don’t have to deal with that mustachio’d drongo on a daily basis.

Must also be a relief to say to the coaching staff I don’t feel like training hard today and if you try and make me I’ll dob on you

 

[gavaniacono]

Doesn’t really explain why Port lose few players.

Crows might need to study Power. Crows should look internally rather than whining to Lever.

 

[telsor]

Tasmania, if it ever happens, will have a similar backwater retention problem.

Would our premiership captain spit the dummy and hang up on the phone?

Who played better in the GF: Lever or Tex?

Has Tex even been sighted since he was spotted psychotically staring at Richmond players pre game?

 

[Drewie11]

Crows might need to study Power. Crows should look internally rather than whining to Lever.

If Port could beat any top 8 team then you might be into something there

 

[gavaniacono]

If Port could beat any top 8 team then you might be into something there

Was it true there was a bit of a fight half time GF?

 

[Drewie11]

Was it true there was a bit of a fight half time GF?

Not sure, hopefully.

 

[gavaniacono]

Not sure, hopefully.

Well, there you go.

 

[Drewie11]

Well, there you go.

What are you talking about?

You say Adelaide should be more like Port with player retention but it obviously isn’t working for Port and then you ask about a fight?

Still going from last night?

 

[jenny61_99]

Must say if Adelaide fans are still shítty after 3 months, I look forward to the saltiness if/when Sloane leaves.

Don't see it being the same way at all. A bit like Danger... gave everything to the club over 8+ years... Lever on the other hand had been there a minute. I think it's to do with the "I'm so grateful to the Club for taking a chance on me (when no-one else would), and I want to be a one club player", yet first opportunity he gets he pisses off for more money. And look, I'm not really pissed at him for leaving - I get that the offer was too good to refuse. The thing that pisses me off is a) the way he went about it (lying instead of being honest) and b) behaving like a free agent by demanding he go to the Dees. He should not have the same rights as a Free Agent, IMO. In this situation, the Club should be able to trade him back to the State he wants to go, but the Club negotiates with a number of Clubs to get the best outcome for both.

 

[jenny61_99]

Doesn’t really explain why Port lose few players.

And shit, yeah, they're going great guns, eh?

 

[gavaniacono]

What are you talking about?

You say Adelaide should be more like Port with player retention but it obviously isn’t working for Port and then you ask about a fight?

Still going from last night?

You hope so meaning hope there was a fight meaning who gives a shit lever leaves.
There you go.
You get what you want.