Adam Treloar or Pat Lipinski...there can be only one.

[jeemak]

Re: Adam Treloar or Pat Lipinski...there can be only one.

Would this debate be a little different if we were paying for all of Treloar's contract?

Yes. But we're not.

[chef]

Re: Adam Treloar or Pat Lipinski...there can be only one.

Maybe we should wait a few games, Saints mids aint a great measuring stick.

[Mofra]

Re: Adam Treloar or Pat Lipinski...there can be only one.

Great question. My feeling is that we wouldn't have been able to pay all of Treloar's contract without bleeding a best 22 player. If we could have afforded him at 100% of his contract value and not bled a best 22 player I'd probably do it. We know we have to pay overs to get elite talent in the 25-28 age bracket into our club. We always have. If we had that sort of cap available though I'd have started trying to prise out a gun key back before another mid, but that's another story.

I'm not sure the Lippa / Treloar debate is about money as much as it is about Lippa knowing his card was stamped when a better version of him entered the club. His niche skill set and hence opportunity got sucked up in a vacuum as soon as Treloar agreed to come to the club.

That was where I was heading, so thanks - the debate might well have been Lippa + (insert player we lose) vs Treloar.

While not as clear cut, Treloar might still be the preferred option in that case. We paid a similar price in trade capital for Treloar as we received for Lippa, although Treloar (plus a second) was traded for 2 first rounders when he left GWS.

In any case, we got a bargain for someone rated so highly and Lippa joins a list of players who left us for more opportunity who look set to do pretty well at their next club. I expect the Pies will be happy with him.

[mjp]

Re: Adam Treloar or Pat Lipinski...there can be only one.

Maybe we should wait a few games, Saints mids aint a great measuring stick.

LOL - that's fair. I have to admit I've been holding off on this one since the trade and had planned to post it after Lipinski's first game for Collingwood!

It just so happened he played well which I thought would be doubly good for a conversation!

I love Treloar as a player but I still maintain adding him to our group has created more complications than solved problems because he is a #A-grade player who plays in a position where pretty much ALL of our other #A-grade players already play!

[Testekill]

Re: Adam Treloar or Pat Lipinski...there can be only one.

Maybe we should wait a few games, Saints mids aint a great measuring stick.

That's true, Saints really only have Jack Steele.

[chef]

Re: Adam Treloar or Pat Lipinski...there can be only one.

LOL - that's fair. I have to admit I've been holding off on this one since the trade and had planned to post it after Lipinski's first game for Collingwood!

It just so happened he played well which I thought would be doubly good for a conversation!

I love Treloar as a player but I still maintain adding him to our group has created more complications than solved problems because he is a #A-grade player who plays in a position where pretty much ALL of our other #A-grade players already play!

Yeah it's a great idea for a thread. I'm keen to see how he goes against the gun mids of Port/Lions/Us/Dees before getting too worried about him going.

Oppo teams will start putting more time into him too and with the lack of options for the Pies he may be easier to negate.

[angelopetraglia]

Re: Adam Treloar or Pat Lipinski...there can be only one.

Treloar was superb tonight.

[SquirrelGrip]

Re: Adam Treloar or Pat Lipinski...there can be only one.

This thread should be changed to Dunkley or Lipinski, there can be only one. Had we traded Dunks for that first round pick and kept Lippa, now that’s a more interesting discussion…

[azabob]

Re: Adam Treloar or Pat Lipinski...there can be only one.

This thread should be changed to Dunkley or Lipinski, there can be only one. Had we traded Dunks for that first round pick and kept Lippa, now that’s a more interesting discussion…

Jeemak is playing the long game signing up as SquirrelGrip back in 2007 (3 years before actually signing up as jeemak) to again bring up we should trade Dunkley... seriously he is just chasing post counts on his thread on Trade Dunkley

[jeemak]

Re: Adam Treloar or Pat Lipinski...there can be only one.

Jeemak is playing the long game signing up as SquirrelGrip back in 2007 (3 years before actually signing up as jeemak) to again bring up we should trade Dunkley... seriously he is just chasing post counts on his thread on Trade Dunkley

I almost PM'd Twodogs to threaten a ball kicking if he didn't change the thread title back to simply "Trade Dunkley" immediately after the game to make sure the message cut through. However, TD has balls of steel and I wouldn't want to hurt my feet, and while I'm still off Dunkley I'm not ready to reignite that thread just yet.

As for me playing the long game and going incognito, I think the real question is whether I'm actually an alter ego if SquirrelGrip and I don't even know it.

[SquirrelGrip]

Re: Adam Treloar or Pat Lipinski...there can be only one.

As for me playing the long game and going incognito, I think the real question is whether I'm actually an alter ego if SquirrelGrip and I don't even know it.

Our time is now Jeemak.

[Ghost Dog]

Re: Adam Treloar or Pat Lipinski...there can be only one.

LOL - that's fair. I have to admit I've been holding off on this one since the trade and had planned to post it after Lipinski's first game for Collingwood!

It just so happened he played well which I thought would be doubly good for a conversation!

I love Treloar as a player but I still maintain adding him to our group has created more complications than solved problems because he is a #A-grade player who plays in a position where pretty much ALL of our other #A-grade players already play!

Hi MJP
If they can push up and all be kicking goals, don't see it as an issue.
Naughton, Bruce, JUH, I would all have as A-graders.
Down back it's a bit thinner.

[Twodogs]

Re: Adam Treloar or Pat Lipinski...there can be only one.

I almost PM'd Twodogs to threaten a ball kicking if he didn't change the thread title back to simply "Trade Dunkley" immediately after the game to make sure the message cut through. However, TD has balls of steel and I wouldn't want to hurt my feet, and while I'm still off Dunkley I'm not ready to reignite that thread just yet.

As for me playing the long game and going incognito, I think the real question is whether I'm actually an alter ego if SquirrelGrip and I don't even know it.

Your feet are safe with me. In all conscience I couldn't let my testicles damage one of the few feet that can kick a footy properly so I'd feint one way when I saw it coming.