List Mgmt. Weak Flog Jake Lever Requests Trade to Melbourne, Causes Player Revolt

Where will Jake Lever end up?


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Vooligan

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Lever in a straight swap for Petracca would be fair.

If Lever nominates Melbourne, we should do a Bullies Boyd like deal with Petracca with similar term, but little less crazy $'s, but a deal too good to refuse.
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Why he even gets thrown up as a suggestion, I have no idea. 0% chance of that happening.
 

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I just don't get it. From the outside in it looks to be a great place to be.

Decent facilities, play to sold out crowds at AO, financially strong club, top side and looking to have a period of success and these ****s still want to go, WTF!!!

Are we stingy?
Do they not respect the admin?
Do they hate the coaches?
Are the players not close?
Is it a stale place?

Or are we just unlucky over and over?

WTF is going on?

Ask a hundred 22 year olds if they would rather live in Adelaide or Melbourne.

I'd say maybe 60% would say Melbourne.

That's the problem. The players seem close, the club seems well run and we look like we're going to continue to be successful.

But it's hard to counteract the lure of the bigger city and extra opportunities.
 

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We're not alone with this frustration.

GWS as Devon Smith (taken at pick 14), Josh Kelly (pick 2), Hopper (pick7) and Kennedy (pick 13) all out of contract and yet to sign.

And Richmond are going through the Dusty circus.

Three of the top four teams with big contracting issues leading into finals.
 

Mike Smyth

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I just don't get it. From the outside in it looks to be a great place to be.

Decent facilities, play to sold out crowds at AO, financially strong club, top side and looking to have a period of success and these ****s still want to go, WTF!!!

Are we stingy?
Do they not respect the admin?
Do they hate the coaches?
Are the players not close?
Is it a stale place?

Or are we just unlucky over and over?

WTF is going on?
We will never know as the question will never get addressed by anyone apart from a few bigfooty muppets like us. Losing elite is killing this club.
 

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Might I point out we lost the Brownlow winner...and we currently sit primed to win the Minor Premiership. Footy takes 22 plus guys...it isn't basketball.

They want to go--goodbye and don't let the door hit your ass on the way out--same as for Mr. Kitty Kat.

I trust the organization, scouting department and coaching staff.
 

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Ask a hundred 22 year olds if they would rather live in Adelaide or Melbourne.

I'd say maybe 60% would say Melbourne.

That's the problem. The players seem close, the club seems well run and we look like we're going to continue to be successful.

But it's hard to counteract the lure of the bigger city and extra opportunities.
I think this is largely it, were the quintessential vanilla club at present. We'll run, good facilities, big crowds, perform well most years, but don't win, never bottom out, which is all great, but we're not a big Victorian club and never will be. Players are happy here, but they won't feel guilty if they leave, because the club will go on being very good, with or without them. Port don't quite have the issue because the second players enter it's they're indoctrinated into a "us against them" culture, they're the poor younger brother who struggles for everything. Players would feel guilty about leaving them.

We're also a victim of our own good recruiting, the fact that we can lose so many high quality players, lack adequate compensation, and yet still be top of the ladder says that our recruiting and development is very good. Clubs don't try to poach shit players.

The only way we can truly stop this is by winning premierships, that's the main reason hawks were able to hang onto their good players for so long, they won the premiership and then everyone wanted to stay and they won more, now everyone wants to be a part of them.
 

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Ask a hundred 22 year olds if they would rather live in Adelaide or Melbourne.

I'd say maybe 60% would say Melbourne.

That's the problem. The players seem close, the club seems well run and we look like we're going to continue to be successful.

But it's hard to counteract the lure of the bigger city and extra opportunities.
Except Port do and if we lose Gov it's to a basket case.
 
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5th and if we lose Lever and McGovern where do you think we'd be?
Well we lost the best player in the comp last year and we finished top 6

The year after we're gonna finish top and are a massive crack at a flag

So probably the same spot

Whilst i don't want to lose either, i think Shooter is the MUST keep. Makes much more of a difference to the team. Lever is a gun, but 3rd talls can be replaced easier than strong marking forwards

But lets just win the ******* flag and try to get our players to stay.
 

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Well we lost the best player in the comp last year and we finished top 6

The year after we're gonna finish top and are a massive crack at a flag

So probably the same spot

Whilst i don't want to lose either, i think Shooter is the MUST keep. Makes much more of a difference to the team. Lever is a gun, but 3rd talls can be replaced easier than strong marking forwards

But lets just win the ******* flag and try to get our players to stay.
Gov just kicked 4 against Sydney and it's no coincidence when he was out was when we had our form slump.

Our depth in the reserves is not that strong. No club can keep losing players.
 

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And we can rehash the last 10 pages but Port do have some quality players who have all stayed.
Good luck to them.

Our list is still better than theirs even if Lever and Gov leave.

It is about the sum of all parts not just the parts themselves.



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Did I say we haven't? We've also lost more than most.

Only those living in denial could possible think we don't have an issue.
I know there is an issue. But the club keeps getting the recruiting of talent and the development right. There's a few other areas of the club which have failed that has stopped us from the ultimate prize. Hopefully that's about to all change
 
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