Dogs would be all over Lever surely.
Dogs, Hawks, Pies, Tigers, North, Dees.
All of them really. We should be too given his talent.
Hurley & Lever would be our number first choice defenders. Both intercept/attacking guns.
Pick one of Hartley or Ambrose as the one on one.
McKenna & McGrath as the smalls who run off HBF.
Gleeson & Ridley battle for the last spot.
And then you have depth in, say, Ambrose & Gleeson. As opposed to Brown and Dea.
Watching bits and Pieces of the Bris-GWS game on the weekend he was actually pretty impressive. After Beams went down he really stood up, ended up with a high-20s possession count I believe.
EDIT: It was actually 32 touches and 6 tackles
I was a little baffled we didn't go for him & Balic in the second rd. vs Morgan and Redman (both of which i hadn't heard of, so felt like reaches).
Parish, Francis, Balic, Mathieson, Brown, Hartley, Tippa. Would have been our best draft imo.
I watched a lot of the carnival that year and Mathieson and Balic looked ready to go. A lot like SPP last year. Not flashy, but they weren't going to be speculative. Had the bodies and mindset to play the tougher side of AFL.