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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: 🏅Dooks on April 09, 2017, 08:59:09 AM
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Controversial thread time but put your opinion out there.
Could Daniel Rioli be a better player than Cyril, Maurice and for thread balance, lesser rated Dean?
Consider his current bag of tricks and likely development.
Discuss.
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Anything is possible, a very early call, but i do like his style, aggression, passion, teamwork, mercurial x factor and commitment.
I also like the way the club is playing him and that he is playing for RFC.
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He has a long way to go -- But the signs are there.
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I think he's going to be a really good player but it's just too early to call. Odds on he won't be better than Cyril as he's a great but you never know.
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Easily
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Hawthorn are finished, will rebuild very soon. Hodge and Roughead won't go beyond this year you'd think. Although Roughead being captain may have 1 more year.
We should go after Cyril. 28 next year. Pitch playing with cousins and Dreamtime game he'd sign up in a heartbeat.
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Don't forget there's potentially another Rioli in the wings that could end up at Tigerland ........... Maurice jnr!
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpjBSkuUEAAO1o9.jpg)
https://twitter.com/Richmond_FC/status/763573086658568197/photo/1
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Hawthorn are finished, will rebuild very soon. Hodge and Roughead won't go beyond this year you'd think. Although Roughead being captain may have 1 more year.
We should go after Cyril. 28 next year. Pitch playing with cousins and Dreamtime game he'd sign up in a heartbeat.
I like it! Let's stuffin-well hoard Riolis!
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I've always said Maurice Rioli is the best player I've ever seen in my time.
Daniel is going to be a special player but far too early to think he will better than Maurice. Has a very long long way to go to get close, that's how good Maurice was IMESHO
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Hawthorn are finished, will rebuild very soon. Hodge and Roughead won't go beyond this year you'd think. Although Roughead being captain may have 1 more year.
We should go after Cyril. 28 next year. Pitch playing with cousins and Dreamtime game he'd sign up in a heartbeat.
I like it! Let's stuffin-well hoard Riolis!
RFC - Rioli Football Club.... :clapping
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Should always recruit a Rioli no matter what's on offer, even if it means trading for more picks to get him. The Rioli name should always have only been associated with Richmond.
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Hawthorn are finished, will rebuild very soon. Hodge and Roughead won't go beyond this year you'd think. Although Roughead being captain may have 1 more year.
We should go after Cyril. 28 next year. Pitch playing with cousins and Dreamtime game he'd sign up in a heartbeat.
Do we get the other rioli, next draft?
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Hawthorn are finished, will rebuild very soon. Hodge and Roughead won't go beyond this year you'd think. Although Roughead being captain may have 1 more year.
We should go after Cyril. 28 next year. Pitch playing with cousins and Dreamtime game he'd sign up in a heartbeat.
Do we get the other rioli, next draft?
End of 2019
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Hawthorn are finished, will rebuild very soon. Hodge and Roughead won't go beyond this year you'd think. Although Roughead being captain may have 1 more year.
We should go after Cyril. 28 next year. Pitch playing with cousins and Dreamtime game he'd sign up in a heartbeat.
This is a good idea ...
Hopefully hawthorn continue to suck
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Rioli having major impact at Tigerland
LAUREN WOOD, GLENN McFARLANE,
Herald Sun
9 April 2017
DANIEL Rioli’s impact has extended far beyond his electric playmaking and goal-generating ability, his captain says.
Richmond skipper Trent Cotchin has lauded the young gun, who has been likened to his star cousin and four-time premiership Hawk Cyril following his goal of the year chance in Saturday’s rain-soaked win over West Coast.
Cotchin said the 19-year-old — who grew up in the Tiwi Islands before moving to Ballarat at age 14 ahead of his 2015 drafting by the Tigers — has displayed maturity well beyond his years.
“We’ll focus on that special goal that he kicked, but I think the greatest example is that contest with (Eagle Jeremy) McGovern where he’s far and above outweighed and outsized in a contest, manages to halve it and then wins the footy, takes off and gives it to another one of our runners,” Cotchin said on Channel 9.
“The greatest thing about Dan is, for such a young kid, he’s very mature.
“Typically, Indigenous guys coming from interstate and having to embrace this whole new environment and AFL footy can struggle early days. But he’s been nothing short of outstanding and taking other guys that we’ve drafted into the club under his wing this season has been really special.”
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/teams/richmond/daniel-rioli-is-having-major-impact-at-richmond-and-its-not-just-his-goalkicking-ability/news-story/cc60dff766415074ef9c6fe22d51918d
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Loved his goal as much as the next person but my favourite moment was when he won the hard ball, beat three tacklers and burst through the middle of the ground
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Young Dan ignites Rioli rivalry
Courtney Walsh
The Australian
April 13, 2017
A conversation between Richmond star Jack Riewoldt and Melbourne veteran Jordan Lewis this week hinted at an exciting future for young Tiger Daniel Rioli.
The Richmond forward set tongues wagging with a remarkable goal at a critical time in the Tigers’ defeat of West Coast at the MCG last Saturday.
With Richmond trailing in the third term, Rioli was spoiled in a marking contest by Brad Sheppard on the half-forward stuff but gathered the football and weaved around his rival to handball to Dion Prestia.
After slipping past Jeremy McGovern, the 19-year-old received the ball back on the boundary line and managed to weave a goal from the most difficult of angles that tied the scores. Understandably, it earned Rioli a goal-of-the-week nomination.
In effect, the teenager was simply continuing the family business of conjuring a spectacular football highlight.
By virtue of carrying one of the most famous surnames in football, Rioli will invite comparison with some of the AFL’s most revered players, as the chat between Riewoldt and Lewis on AFL 360 demonstrated.
His uncle Cyril was a three-time All Australian and a Norm Smith medallist with Hawthorn.
Maurice Rioli, another uncle, was twice Richmond’s best-and-fairest and won the 1982 Norm Smith Medal. Another, Dean Rioli, notched 100 games with the Bombers.
Daniel tends to be bracketed with the champion Hawk Cyril, as Riewoldt noted on Tuesday night.
“I’ve been telling (Jordan Lewis) that he would be a pretty good little player,” Riewoldt said.
Lewis responded: “You said he would be better than Cyril,” to which his co-panellist replied: “I said he could be as good as Cyril.”
“He certainly is an exciting player and I am fairly sure there are a number of Richmond supporters out there who will have the No 17 on their backs,” Riewoldt said.
“He has a ferocious work rate, which is the thing that I think has accelerated his development, and he just wants to get better. He is an extremely talented kid.”
Rioli embraced the likely comparisons on the night he was drafted in 2015, cheekily claiming it would be “easy” to run down his uncle Cyril on the MCG.
A former coach, David Loader, retold a story about Daniel “chasing Cyril with a frog because Cyril doesn’t like frogs”.
“He reckons he’s got Cyril’s measure, which is a wonderful confident attribute to have,” Loader told the AFL website.
These were boastful, joyful claims of a talent yet to play against men, but just over a year into his career, the younger Rioli is proving himself a more than capable footballer.
Cyril Rioli was a dynamo in an incredible first season in which he played every game and was a member of the 2008 premiership side.
A maiden finals campaign eluded Daniel Rioli in a debut season in which he played 18 games.
But a September campaign is within the realms this season, particularly if Richmond can continue their unbeaten run when they meet the Lions in Brisbane on Sunday, the day he turns 20.
A statistical contrast between the first seasons of the two Riolis shows a slight edge to Cyril, but Daniel’s efforts are only slightly behind him while playing in a clearly inferior team.
Quizzed yesterday as to how the exploits of the young Tiger are matching up with the Hawthorn star, Richmond coach Damien Hardwick declared his Rioli was intent on making his own name.
“Cyril is a wonderful player and I was privileged to work with him in his early days (at Hawthorn),” he said.
“Daniel is different. I think he is only just scratching the surface as to where he is at as a forward.
“I have got no doubt he will push into the midfield as some stage when he is a little bit bigger and, I would like to say, improves his endurance, but he is very good in that area.
“Over a period of time he will push further up the field. He will make his own name, I have no doubt.”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/afl/daniel-rioli-emerges-from-shadows-of-his-famous-uncles/news-story/0a3053d19031ad971fc67dd07f9f472b