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Fat Jesus said:
Leave the BMT in that thread. Does not belong here. This is the Pat Lipinski thread. GF hero.
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Sorry for bothering to talk with you FJ. Should have known better.
 
Fat Jesus said:
Leave the BMT in that thread. Does not belong here. This is the Pat Lipinski thread. GF hero.
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You said this about him on the 23rd September, “
I hate him bigtime. Let's unite.
Pretty boy annoys me.”
 
jmac70 said:
You said this about him on the 23rd September, “
I hate him bigtime. Let's unite.
Pretty boy annoys me.”
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Just reading back through this thread. The BMT was a rigged disgrace adjudicated by a shyster. Lippa was the rightful winner. He couldn't have done much more. Shame on you jMac.
 

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sr36 said:
Just reading back through this thread. The BMT was a rigged disgrace adjudicated by a shyster. Lippa was the rightful winner. He couldn't have done much more. Shame on you jMac.
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Recency bias. WHE was consistent from round one.
 
sr36 said:
Pfft. A squib in the finals is worth a thousand Round 1 squibs.
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Had he backed it up in the GF,
the handsome one might have got over the line.

Matters not, the result has been called. Keep arguing and you will get a thread ban for the 2024 count.
 
Really Lippa's only issue is hardness at the footy. Too many times in the finals and reg season did we watch him shy away from a hard ball get. This was not so in the GF from what I remember. I'm hoping that getting dropped to sub is the spurring he needed - clearly the coaches are giving him feedback on his shortcomings, and feedback is key to improvement. So let's see how he responds.

He is obviously also slow, but given his disposal is usually good that's fine, but has to get the hard ball when his number is called.
 




The first of those were in despair down in Tasmania, when the midfielder dislocated his shoulder in a pre-season match only weeks after returning from surgery.

It pushed his timeline back again, meaning he didn’t play until Round 13 and faced another road of recovery.
But as time would tell, his next batch of tears would be imbued with joy, coming in the middle of the MCG after he’d won his first premiership on the last day in September.
“I was on the bench in the last 30 seconds, and I started to get emotional once Checkers took a mark and kicked it down the line I knew we were going to win,” Lipinski recalls.
“I could feel tears coming and then the siren went, and we just jumped up and down.
“I hugged Fly and then I ran on and I can’t even remember who I hugged honestly; I hugged pretty much everyone.
“Then suddenly my girlfriend Chloe was on the field and hugging me and I started crying again.”

It’s a reflection of the journey Lipinski has been on since arriving at the Club at the end of 2021.
Admittedly, as the man himself says, he walked into a team who had just placed second-last and was in the midst of finding a new coach.
But he quickly found his feet, as the did the team as a whole, with Lipinski averaging 21 disposals across his 39 games for the Club in the past two seasons.
“When I first arrived, you could almost say the Club was in a bit of turmoil, I think they’d just finished 17th and didn’t have a great year and I obviously decided to come to Collingwood and I’d basically decided before they’d even announced that Fly was coming, so I kind of took a stab in the dark,” Lipinski said.
“Once Fly came it was just a perfect match, he’s just the best coach and he’s driven the best culture ever and even to start the year in 2022 we were a bit up and down, but the culture was really good and then from about Round 10 to now we’ve barely lost.
“It’s the best feeling in the world, you really work your whole life to even get one game in the AFL and then you want to cement your spot and now to be a premiership player it’s the best feeling ever.”
Of course, Lipinski’s Grand Final week was a little different to most of his teammates, having been named the sub for the game.
While disappointed not to be in the starting 22, the 25-year-old knew it wasn’t the time to be upset, knowing he had to be ready at any moment.
“I think it was Thursday afternoon I was just walking back from a massage and got called in to go to Fly’s office so I kind of knew that I’m going to be sub,” he said.
“Basically, Fly just told me that I was going to be sub for the Grand Final and obviously everyone wants to be in the 22 but it’s not the right time to sulk, I was playing in a Grand Final in two days so I was still very grateful that at least I’m playing.
“I was just like ‘alright, I’ll accept that responsibility, I’ll try be the best sub I can be and be super positive about it’.
“We had the Grand Final parade the next day so I was like ‘let’s enjoy that and get ready to play’ so that was basically my mindset, I didn’t want to sulk about it or anything.”

In the end, Lipinski played a large majority of the game anyway after Nathan Murphy’s unfortunate concussion early in the contest.
Embracing each moment, Lipinski recorded 16 disposals in the four-point win and put his name down in the Collingwood history books.
“At quarter time I saw him stumbling around a bit so I thought I might be a chance to get on,” Lipinski remembered.
“It was selfless by him, he could’ve easily gone back and gone on the ground and tried to play but he knew that we had myself waiting there and I could be fresh, so Murph told me to be ready and I guess I was.
“It takes years and years of hard work for everyone, everyone has got their own story, everyone has gone through setbacks and adversity whether it’s injuries or form or having to move clubs, there’s probably 10 blokes that have moved clubs to play in this team.
“Most importantly it’s probably the little things every day just being a professional because it just accumulates.”
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Nicco_jj said:
Really Lippa's only issue is hardness at the footy. Too many times in the finals and reg season did we watch him shy away from a hard ball get. This was not so in the GF from what I remember. I'm hoping that getting dropped to sub is the spurring he needed - clearly the coaches are giving him feedback on his shortcomings, and feedback is key to improvement. So let's see how he responds.

He is obviously also slow, but given his disposal is usually good that's fine, but has to get the hard ball when his number is called.
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I observed the same trait, Nicco. His GF performance was very good, though. I feel that he now has confidence in his shoulder and will be a little more direct at the footy. Habing said that, his role is not that of a bull for hard ball gets, more of an outside mid who can use his elite disposal ability to deliver for scoring opportunities. His best footy is in close with lightining hands to creat space for others. He is a keeper.
 
We must not forget he only had half a season plus 2 shoulder operations,last season his disposal was good,I think it is easy to understand why he might think twice before putting putting the body on the line,you need continuity and no injuries for that.

As long as he gets down and dirty when it,s his turn I see no problems with that,his ball use in yr 1 was good and if he returns to that I see no problems.
 

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Abdul_The_Bull said:
I observed the same trait, Nicco. His GF performance was very good, though. I feel that he now has confidence in his shoulder and will be a little more direct at the footy. Habing said that, his role is not that of a bull for hard ball gets, more of an outside mid who can use his elite disposal ability to deliver for scoring opportunities. His best footy is in close with lightining hands to creat space for others. He is a keeper.
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I got the distinct impression that Lippa was protecting himself lest he miss a berth in the GF.
He also spent the second half of the season slowly gaining confidence in his shoulder.
He played well in the GF and should now be confident that his shoulder is fine.
Hopefully an uninterrupted preseason should see him go to another level next year, because he certainly has sweet disposal skills.
 
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Kappa said:
Did you miss 2023? Lipinski ball use was pretty poor.
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I think his disposal can be pressured because he often plays "defensive mid" (this is what the coaches and players called the role, I guess its not as hard attached as a tagger more like back of tge square sweeper?) so hes passing on spilt turnovers out of the centre square.

Haven't seen the stats but I think he's an elite medium range kick: of he has poor stats maybe its because his role is to attempt to turn low percentage situations into better chances.

The other knocks, that he's slow and not the sternest tackler, have so e merit, I hope he works on those aspects.
 
I was glancing over our preseason game last year because **** knows why and I noticed Lipinski had 22 touches and scored 2.2 before doing his shoulder. The shoulder maybe really hampered him all season last year or he is a preseason specialist
 
Who can blame a player who has wrecked his shoulder more than once from exhibiting slight hesitation as a 90kg beast comes charging at him? It's not so much fear of being hurt but fear of another reco and the end of another season. He is a class act when 100% fit and has full confidence in his body.
 
I’d be interested to see what people think his best position is. For me he can play anywhere in the midfield i( inside or outside, wing or a run with role, or behind the ball as an extra defensive number) and with stints forward, so hard to pigeonhole him . Maybe he doesn’t have a “ position” as such… just a member of the rotations depending upon the circumstances on the day.
 
His form in pre season has been very good if he get,s back to 22 form we will have a serious player again. He showed in 22 that he was a very good player who just could not get into the Dogs stacked midfield much the same as Sullivan recently.

He at his best is definitely in the starting 18 good disposal good pace what more do we need and able to dob a couple at times.
 
Fat Jesus said:
Good looking but he's no Oleg mate.
A real man.
Lippa looks like one of those models that sports cheap underware from the Target brochures.
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In his middle age with those rosy cheeks he may become a cast member in one of those lifestyle shows like Escape To The Country….
 
Timmy from Thomastown said:
I’d be interested to see what people think his best position is. For me he can play anywhere in the midfield i( inside or outside, wing or a run with role, or behind the ball as an extra defensive number) and with stints forward, so hard to pigeonhole him . Maybe he doesn’t have a “ position” as such… just a member of the rotations depending upon the circumstances on the day.
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I’m thinking HHF taking midfield and wing rotations. Similar role to WHE when he plays forward but with more time starting in the square which WHE didn’t do. WHE’s apparent move to HB enables it.
 
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