It's Liam Baker in the backline isn't it?
Player Watch #17: Daniel Rioli - Traded to GC, picks 6&23.
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It's Liam Baker in the backline isn't it?
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we need a winger with pace and skill right?....
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it's Shai Bolton
Pathetic. His effort or lack there of in the last when he and Dusty ended up giving away the free kick sums up his game perfectly. Would rather wait and sit on his opponent then attack it and win the ball himself. Aarts put him to shame.
Bolton must be pissed how this guy is continually favoured above him.
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Thought he was a bit better than usual today.
If that is Boltons attitude, then good thing he is dropped.
Remember the days when you used to have subs and those players who generally play 1 quarter? Those days would have been perfect for Dan.
Not sure he has the desire or hunger to play 4 quarters any more.
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Not sure he has the desire or hunger to play 4 quarters any more.
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8 touches, 1 tackle, 1 goal. The bar has been set so low for this guy. Aarts showed him up on debut.
This was just his standard game. Could actually amount a case of an improved game seeing as he hit the scoreboard which is rare for him.
In all seriousness the standard that he continually is allowed to get away with is sickening. He got dropped last year and played an average game in the VFL but got recalled due to dreamtime. Gets dropped last week and seemingly has an average game given the match report sounded much like our younger less performed players and yet gets recalled again. Meanwhile Butler is performing for St.Kilda, Bolton has been one our best players and is inexplicably dropped and a player like Aarts comes in and completely shows him up.
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Mind boggling
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I back the coaches tbh
We don't and will never know their every reasoning for every decision.
But there will always be one. Coaches, especially premiership coaches don't play favourites.
This is stupid logic. All coaches play favourites and especially premiership coaches. Rioli just so happened to live with Hardwick for a good 12 months.
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Stack has shown a lot more in his first 20 games than Rioli has entire career. Even against Hawthorn when Stack was terrible in the first half he finished strong and was one of the better players in the second half. He then played a terrible game against the Saints akin to that of most of Rioli throughout his career and was dropped. Stack doesn't have the same relationship with the Hardwick family that Rioli has and spent less time living there.
Yet he played in the scratch match. Talk of being rested in shortened quarters and having 7 days off between our games so far doesn't commute with me.
I thought Rioli showed a few good signs in the first quarter.
Unfortunately my beer intake means I get increasingly vague as the match goes on so I can't comment on his full game.
Unfortunately my beer intake means I get increasingly vague as the match goes on so I can't comment on his full game.
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Stack/Bolton have shown a lot more flashiness than Rioli and I think a lot of supporters look for that instead of work rate/work off the ball.
Coaches don't care about how flashy a player is, they look for other things. That is why Rioli gets picked over Bolton.
ps, not saying I nessecarily agree with Bolton being dropped for Rioli, I am just giving probable reasons w hy.
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He’s the same player he was now as he was in 2017. That’s the problem.
He legit had a good prelim and 24 other games exactly like today’s game. He just had more excuses (quite rightly) for poor performances in 2017 because he was in his 2nd year.
You do realise the AFL app has this data and rarely does Rioli feature in the top achievers which for a guy with his pace and endurance is laughable. For comparisons sake Jack Graham who is comfortably our hardest working player and sacrifices more of his game than anyone else regularly features high in the running stats and yet he has been dropped more often than Rioli. One plays HF the other as a small forward and yet who is dropped more often than the other despite actually being a midfielder and rarely given an opportunity to run through there.
Another example is Butler who don't get me wrong was poor last year yet in the first half of the season he was the only small forward whos pressure rating was higher than the previous year and this year he is no.1 in the comp. Despite Butler doing the things the coaches wanted last season he was still dropped. Rioli minus one half vs GWS in r3 was just as poor as Butler in the first half of last season but wasn't providing the pressure that he had set as his standard and yet was dropped for one week where in that VFL game Butler outperformed him and yet Rioli returned to the side and didn't lose his spot for the rest of the year.
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I’ve been a real fan from day 1 but he is taking the easy option far to often at the moment.
Needs to sit down and watch the replay of today’s game and how Aarts went about it.
Needs to sit down and watch the replay of today’s game and how Aarts went about it.
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I thought he was out injured after qtr time, didn’t notice him till the last 5-10 mins when he started touching it a few times again.
