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« Reply #450 on: September 07, 2017, 10:35:00 PM »
Daniel Rioli will have a big role in helping Richmond coach Damien Hardwick win his first final

DAVID KING
Herald Sun
8 September 2017


RICHMOND must confront the elephant in the room and accept that it has failed the test of finals football not once, not twice, but three times in successive seasons.

That must stop on Friday night before it becomes this group’s legacy.

Damien Hardwick has coached the most AFL games (179) without winning a final in VFL/AFL history.

The Tigers must ensure that their coach doesn’t become known as “Home-and-Away Hardwick”.

As Ross Lyon says, “failure is feedback” and the 2017 Tigers play a far different brand of football, less reliant on talent and more based on system.

The uniqueness of this campaign is that their forward half includes only one tall, Jack Riewoldt.

The common belief that two tall options are required for support, in-game injury risk management and just basic sharing of the workload has been debunked by Richmond’s home-and-away season, but Hardwick must feel sick in the stomach that this issue may come home to roost when it matters most.

The reluctance to select Ben Griffiths as a second tall option will be all the talk post-match if this small forward line fails.

Hindsight experts are plentiful and, as always, success has many fathers while failure is an orphan, meaning Hardwick will carry responsibility for this method, if unsuccessful, alone.

His strategy has worked to date but his mosquito forwards must bring the ball to ground tonight as they cannot allow Geelong’s defenders to intercept mark and deny the Tigers their main asset — speed.

That’s speed to obtain possession and speed to subject the Cats’ back six to the AFL’s greatest pressure.

A forward-half pressure cauldron that is brilliant in its fanaticism is led by Daniel Rioli.

Young Daniel defends a space greater than any other player — it’s really a 25-30m radius. That’s a lot of usable grass.

Dan Butler, Jason Castagna and Kane Lambert have pace to burn, but use it predominantly to defend rather than the generally accepted one-way run.

It has become the Tiger trademark and is a sustainable brand of football and, while their ability to lock the ball in their forward half is obvious, it hadn’t been influencing the scoreboard.

That is, not until the last four home-and-away rounds.

Richmond went from averaging 33 points from forward-half intercepts to 43 points — No.1 in the league.

Geelong has played an immediate foldback defence over the past few weeks and has the ability to appear almost Sydney-like in its ability to absorb repeat opposition inside-50m entries.

The Cats concede a goal from a miserly 18.6 per cent of opposition forward-50 entries, second best behind the Swans.

It’s clear that Chris Scott has last year’s finals exit at the hands of the Swans foremost in his mind and it appears he has adopted a very similar methodology to Sydney’s.

The “Slingshot Swans” got them in 2016 but the “Counter-Punch Cats” will be on show tonight and the “Tiger Terriers” must snap at their heels, otherwise Geelong’s finals experience may just shine through.

In many way D. Rioli is Richmond’s most important player.

While he’s no D. Martin, he’s a standard setter others can — and must — follow.

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Re: Daniel Rioli [merged]
« Reply #451 on: September 09, 2017, 03:15:13 PM »
Another typical Daniel Rioli game. No goals,  3 kicks and about 3 missed tackles.

I would just like to know how his game last night is any different than George's?

Both were poor and both imo should not be dropped but how are they any different?

I must have read 6 or 7 posters saying how poor George was and how he should be replaced but nothing on Rioli. Why is that?

Can anyone answer that logically?

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« Reply #452 on: September 09, 2017, 03:38:54 PM »
Fair point but He still managed to create a lot of pressure and contested ball.  He forced errors and kept them honest.
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Re: Daniel Rioli [merged]
« Reply #453 on: September 09, 2017, 04:13:05 PM »
Another typical Daniel Rioli game. No goals,  3 kicks and about 3 missed tackles.

I would just like to know how his game last night is any different than George's?

Both were poor and both imo should not be dropped but how are they any different?

I must have read 6 or 7 posters saying how poor George was and how he should be replaced but nothing on Rioli. Why is that?

Can anyone answer that logically?

No, everyone has given up trying to explain it to you

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« Reply #454 on: September 09, 2017, 07:24:46 PM »
For starters Rioli is clean where George struggles as evident with his first 3 attempts to collect the ball last night. In saying that, they both along with Butler provide enormous pressure. It's working so they continue as Lloyd and Lennon are too slow to replace any of them. Bolton could come in but i think they will continue as is.

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« Reply #455 on: September 09, 2017, 07:46:09 PM »
I agree while we're winning don't change the 3 small setup but yeah Rioli wasn't good last night.

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Re: Daniel Rioli [merged]
« Reply #456 on: September 09, 2017, 08:16:23 PM »
I get the feeling that opposition coaches would prefer him not to be picked.

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« Reply #457 on: September 09, 2017, 10:24:23 PM »
Their input is probably the same. I also saw Dan Rioli miss tackles, but George did it closer to me so it stands out more and i also think he fumbled more than rioli did.

Agree with others though its a mute point when we win our way into a prelim. :thumbsup

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Re: Daniel Rioli [merged]
« Reply #458 on: September 10, 2017, 02:25:31 PM »
This kid is good and has a huge thirst for the ball which is more than most other players in the entire league.
His pressure was good on Friday night. No not his best game, but I see a future that is full of stardom, I hope you all can see it too.
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Re: Daniel Rioli [merged]
« Reply #459 on: September 10, 2017, 02:32:20 PM »
No not everyone can

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Re: Daniel Rioli [merged]
« Reply #460 on: September 10, 2017, 02:46:18 PM »
Pressure was huge as always, had Geelong looking over their shoulders all night and caused more than a few fumbles, just needs to improve the finishing and stick a few more tackles.....
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Re: Daniel Rioli [merged]
« Reply #461 on: September 10, 2017, 04:00:21 PM »
Plays a much more difficult role that Castagna as well

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Re: Daniel Rioli [merged]
« Reply #462 on: September 10, 2017, 04:01:25 PM »
Plays a much more difficult role that Castagna as well

What?

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Re: Daniel Rioli [merged]
« Reply #463 on: September 10, 2017, 04:17:41 PM »
Than*
Either fat fingers or autocorrect

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« Reply #464 on: September 10, 2017, 04:20:04 PM »
Than*
Either fat fingers or autocorrect

Can you explain what you mean by "much more difficult role"