Player Watch #17: Daniel Rioli - Traded to GC, picks 6&23.

[Mr Magic]

Daniel has been fantastic for us

 

[voorhees]

Daniel has been fantastic for us

yeah.. wish him well in the future.
Overjoyed with the compensation.. we really hit a homerun with #6.

 

[Coach_Required]

Has this actually been finalized yet?

 

[daird]

Has this actually been finalized yet?

AFL house probably forcing us to wait until 7pm to sign the papers so they can drum up suspense

 

[captain cotch 9]

Apparently getting lodged now.

 

[A Tiger 4 lyf]

Bye Bye Ratoli


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[tigersab]

Still pissed off he didn't see through his contract. Be nice of him to be a mentor to the younger developing kids. But fugg him. Will enjoy giving him shit in the piss poor ronald mcdonald colours of the suns. May you lose every game.

 

[voorhees]

in #6 + #23
out - rioli #51 , #61 #70 ,# 76

 

[Tiger2709]

Still pissed off he didn't see through his contract. Be nice of him to be a mentor to the younger developing kids. But fugg him. Will enjoy giving him shit in the piss poor ronald mcdonald colours of the suns. May you lose every game.

We made out like thieves on this one, love the man but at his age and with our list this was by far the best outcome we could have hoped for.

 

[THE_GUN]

Thank you Daniel

Fantastic result for a 28 year old in a trade #6 & #23
He gave his all to the club for 10 years and was a perfect citizen and gave us a massive leg up on the way out

Cant handle people shitting on him and the other boys as they would not have made any difference to our club the next 4-5 years and have given us a massive head start before Tassie come into the league

 

[tigerisland]

Dan has done the right thing by the club. He won our B&F. Went to a club that wants him and prepared to pay overs, went with 2 years in his contract so we had more bargaining power and went at 28 years of age, just as his abilities have peaked but there is still a little bit of juice for GC. Awesome business by the club.

 

[voorhees]

Dan left us with many great memories over the years.
This trade is just the last moment we can get from him.. the timing and pick return is going to be greatly appreciated..
When the career is over, welcomed back for a beer any time. always a tiger!

 

[sante]

I came to terms with him leaving a while ago but I still can’t believe it. Thought he’d be a Tiger for life especially with Maurice here.

Going to miss seeing him in the yellow and black.

 

[Acinath]

Expecting a big year for Dan next year, given Dimma can tuck him into bed every night again.

 

[juss]

Sad to see him go but the return for him is outstanding

 

[Vassp]

Expecting a big year for Dan next year, given Dimma can tuck him into bed every night again.

sad case

 

[Acinath]

sad case

I like Rioli, more Dimma that gives me the shits these days. I hope Rioli gives them what he gave us over the last few years, was outstanding off HB.

 

[1980GFVideo]

I tend to barrack for the GC in all games except when they play us. Its not like they will ever become a good side.

Will enjoy watching him play for them knowing he wouldn't have made a huge difference to our year. Will help if pick 6 finds his feet early in the year.

 

[richoplzbreed]

Phenomenal return on investment for Rioli. Spewing on Bolton leaving but fully support someone who was always homesick with a young family and no family support wanting to go back home. But Dan is a rat in my book. The club got him well looked after at St Pats as a kid without any guarantees of landing him. We endured years of lean output up fwd without him fearing getting dropped. Sending him to the easiest position was a master-stroke, allowing him to be flashy and pump up his value although he leaked goals like a sieve.

Many of us called he was goneski with his p1ss poor acting when interviewed during Aboriginal round and at the airport. Let's be honest the club did everything right for him and he basically on it to always look out for his and that lousy DJ'S interests. I'm predicting he'll have a good 2025 honeymoon year then fall off a cliff. Stupid move by GC extending his 3 year x $600k salary to 5 years at >>>>>>> $600k.

His pace will be greatly gone before 3 years is up and they'll be left with a couple years of a slow hbf who's not best 22 but old mate Hardwick will cover for him as always. Look forward to this washing away the Pitura trade as Dan's 20 odd good games and 30 odd mediocre and 30 putrid games is blown away by the 250+ game and 150+ games careers of who we take at pick 6 and 23.

It only took a couple years to hear how Caddy deal really happened. Took 10 years to hear the true story how Buddy lied all along and 18 months out was already going to Sydney. No doubt we'll find out the real shifty dealings of Dan and Dumma going to GC before too long.

 

[Nostradumbass]

Phenomenal return on investment for Rioli. Spewing on Bolton leaving but fully support someone who was always homesick with a young family and no family support wanting to go back home. But Dan is a rat in my book. The club got him well looked after at St Pats as a kid without any guarantees of landing him. We endured years of lean output up fwd without him fearing getting dropped. Sending him to the easiest position was a master-stroke, allowing him to be flashy and pump up his value although he leaked goals like a sieve.

Many of us called he was goneski with his p1ss poor acting when interviewed during Aboriginal round and at the airport. Let's be honest the club did everything right for him and he basically on it to always look out for his and that lousy DJ'S interests. I'm predicting he'll have a good 2025 honeymoon year then fall off a cliff. Stupid move by GC extending his 3 year x $600k salary to 5 years at >>>>>>> $600k.

His pace will be greatly gone before 3 years is up and they'll be left with a couple years of a slow hbf who's not best 22 but old mate Hardwick will cover for him as always. Look forward to this washing away the Pitura trade as Dan's 20 odd good games and 30 odd mediocre and 30 putrid games is blown away by the 250+ game and 150+ games careers of who we take at pick 6 and 23.

It only took a couple years to hear how Caddy deal really happened. Took 10 years to hear the true story how Buddy lied all along and 18 months out was already going to Sydney. No doubt we'll find out the real shifty dealings of Dan and Dumma going to GC before too long.

What happened with caddy?

 

[richoplzbreed]

What happened with caddy?

Long story short. Caddy's older brother Saul played Tigs U19's and magoos with Benny Gale. At 2016 gf he told Gale that Caddy wanted out of Cats and wanted to be reunited with Prestia and to get more midfield as Cats shunted him fwd and he hated it there. Deledio then wanted to go to Cats. They offered us sfa but dangled Caddy.

Deledio trade fell over. Caddy acted outraged that he was offered up as tradebait. And as fate would have it the Cats deal was lousy. If it went through we would've basically swapped Caddy for Deledio with junk picks thrown in. As it turns out we got a motze for Deledio from GWS and Caddy dirt cheap from Cats. There's articles about it somewhere and you can hear Benny talk about it. Might be with Richo on talking Tigers also?

 

[richoplzbreed]

What happened with caddy?

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/...y/news-story/8536079b5629b6a514cecd2b518bcd7e

How a chance meeting in the September Club at the 2016 Grand Final helped Richmond secure Josh Caddy
GLENN McFARLANE, Herald Sun
9 minutes ago
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IT WAS the sliding doors moment that helped Richmond secure Josh Caddy, and it came in the most unlikely of circumstances and locations.

Just hours after the Western Bulldogs pulled off a fairytale 2016 Grand Final triumph, Richmond chief executive Brendon Gale was networking in the AFL’s exclusive September Club, perhaps even dreaming his Tigers could achieve the same result one day.

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Amid the raucous revelry coming from the corporate who’s who surrounding him, Gale was approached by a face he recognised as a one-time teammate who had been on Richmond’s supplementary list in the late 1990s.

His name was Saul Caddy; he wanted to introduce his brother Josh to Gale.

“It was just a chance meeting,” Gale revealed this week, eager to play down the importance of this never-before revealed conversation.

But what happened that night undoubtedly played a part in the Tigers securing Josh Caddy from Geelong in a surprise trade only weeks later — a player who would become a part of Richmond’s own fairytale success on the same day a year later, and a footballer rated as the AFL’s most improved this year according to Champion Data’s Official AFL Player Ratings.

“Saul just came up to and said ‘G’day’,” Gale told the Herald Sun. “I hadn’t seen him in years, I think he was still a bit dirty on not getting an opportunity all those years ago.

“Saul said that he would love to see Josh at Richmond. He didn’t bag Geelong or anything like that. He just indicated that Josh was a little bit restless.

“I hadn’t made the connection that Josh was his brother. I said just hello to Josh and we made some small talk.”

Josh Caddy (right) celebrates Richmond’s premiership with Dustin Martin and Damien Hardwick.
Gale didn’t think any more about the conversation until the following week when he was in a list management meeting at Punt Rd, just a few hundred metres from where the September Club function was held. The discussion centred on Geelong’s interest in Tigers’ veteran Brett Deledio, which Richmond was sure the Cats couldn’t get done in terms of draft picks or players.

But as the talk narrowed, Gale raised his casual chat with Saul Caddy, and the unlikely opportunity it had presented for a club eager for a hard-bodied midfielder who was capable of going forward and kicking multiple goals.

“I just said to ‘Balmey’ (Neil Balme), (list manager) Blair (Hartley) and ‘Richo’ (then Tigers general manager of football talent Dan Richardson) that I had bumped into Saul, and that it might be worth following up,” Gale said.

“They went to work on it, and it had nothing to do with me. He was just the sort of player who made sense for us.”

Josh Caddy had kicked 27 goals this year.
As it turned out, Deledio chose the Giants, and Caddy — receptive to a move to Punt Rd and eager for more game time in the midfield — ended up being a shock trade to Richmond for picks 26 (Brandon Parfitt) and 60 (Quinton Narkle).

Gale gives all the credit for securing Caddy to Richmond’s list management team, who took his initial tip-off, and made it happen.

Fast-forward a season-and-a-half and Richmond’s effort to prise Caddy out of Geelong has proven just another of their list management masterstrokes.

Caddy, 25, has played 31 games for his third club — he was originally pick seven for Gold Coast in the 2010 draft — and has kicked 48 goals.

He played a key role in the Tigers’ 2017 flag success, and has taken his game to a higher plane this season.

Playing predominantly in attack — it’s been a 61 per cent, 39 per cent split, according to Champion Data — Caddy has kicked 27.6 from nine games this year, which puts him equal-fourth in the Coleman Medal.

When Caddy spoke to the Herald Sun following Richmond’s Dreamtime win against Essendon last Saturday night, teammate Jack Riewoldt — who has twice won the AFL leading goalkicker award — walked past and yelled: “Caddy for the Coleman”.

As strange as it might have seemed at the start of the season, Caddy is not without a fluker’s chance, only eight behind tearaway leader Ben Brown.

Of the top 10 leading goalkickers this season, only two — Brown and Lance Franklin — have a better goals per game average in 2018 than Caddy’s 3.0.

Most improved player 2018
Player Club 2017 2018 Diff
Josh Caddy Richmond 9.2 16.7 +7.5
Max Gawn Melbourne 11.2 18 +6.8
Tom McDonald Melbourne 11.9 17.5 +5.6
Brodie Grundy Collingwood 13.8 19.2 +5.4
Brandan Parfitt Geelong 6.2 11.5 +5.3
Jake Melksham Melbourne 9.5 14.4 +4.9
James Sicily Hawthorn 8.7 13.5 +4.8
Harris Andrews Brisbane Lions 10.8 15.4 +4.6
Jayden Short Richmond 6.0 10.4 +4.4
Tom Phillips Collingwood 10.7 15.0 +4.3
* table based on Champion Data’s Official AFL Player Ratings

Caddy insists he doesn’t care where he plays, saying he is now enjoying his football more than at any other stage of his 126-game career.

“I honestly don’t care,” he stressed. “I am just loving playing footy. I’ve had a taste of success last year, and that’s what it is all about.”

“We were fortunate enough to do what we did last year. If anything, that motivates us more to get back there again, because you know how good it feels.”

Gale remembers Caddy playing some big TAC Cup games in key forward posts, saying the midfielder-cum-forward has an uncanny knack for kicking goals.

“You have either got that goalkicking chip, or you don’t,” Gale said. “And Josh has got it.”

Caddy can’t put his finger on any specific reason for his growth this year, other than natural maturity and help from those around him.

“You always want to improve as a player,” he said. “As long as you are on the right trajectory, that’s the most important thing.”

“I haven’t done anything differently. It is working for me, and hopefully it keeps rolling. But footy’s the great leveller, it will bring you back to earth if you get ahead of yourself.

“We’ve got such an even contribution. Cotch and Dusty are spending more time down there, and it is a good sign big Jack (Riewoldt) doesn’t have to kick a big bag each week.”

Josh Caddy celebrates a goal against Essendon. Picture: Michael Klein
Coach Damien Hardwick said Caddy’s elevation into All-Australian contention — he is ranked No. 1 for a mid-forward in goals and No. 2 for scoring involvements — comes from hard work.

“We tried to figure out where his best fit was, and his back end of last year was very, very important,” Hardwick said. “Now we are seeing his progression … his ability to play inside (mid) and to play forward is incredible.

“He has worked incredibly hard on improving his game on and off the field and he is starting to reap the rewards.

“He still has a long way to go, which is exciting for us.”

That hunger to achieve more and his inherent competitive streak continues to drive him, with the next challenge coming against Port Adelaide at the hostile Adelaide Oval.

“We’ve probably been a little flat for the past month, but (the Dreamtime) win was good,” he said of Richmond. “We were back to close to our best.”

If the Tigers keep that momentum up, neither Caddy — or Gale, for that matter — will have any need for corporate hospitality tickets into the September Club again this year.