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He'll play a bit like this
Player Watch #10 Maurice Rioli Jnr
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Hey Drofder
If you get the chance can you elaborate on the story? That's the stuff I love reading about here the most of all.
Kind regards Jonno
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Was being coached by Robert Shaw. We’d regularly have Sheedy and Essendon players at training as well as guys Shaw knew from his playing days - including Jim Jess amongst them.
Jim spent a week with us recovering from injury and training with us and getting away from the media attention. (Essendon players did it all the time with us too.)
Shaw was a huge Rioli fan and had pictures plastered around the locker rooms of him on the walls. He’d often make reference to how he played. This night with the Ghost Shaw asked him to take a tackling drill and to explain, if he could, how Rioli did it. So Ghost started off saying he was the best, most ferocious tackler he’d ever seen, and then tried to teach us what he thought made him so good - which largely revolved around patience and going low at the right moment.
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Welcome to Tigerland Maurice go.well young man
Thank you SO MUCH mate. Kind regards jonno, (a middle aged guy who JUST remembers Maurice senior)
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see a lot of Cyril in his highlights, got that trademark rioli tackle
We have to be careful... no precedent for 2 Rioli’s and a flag guarantee.
A risky game!!
A risky game!!
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Maybe he plays in the granny with Daniel and Bruce ends up having a heart attack after a particularly dazzling piece of play by the cousins.
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MRJ picked us as a nominated F/S and we backed that in by selecting him
He already looks an upgrade on Castagna, aarts so good times ahead
He's not just a name or a spud,, the future is looking so bright we gota wear shades
from the highlights he is super quick, repeat tackles and pressure, in-instinctive goal sense
no pressure but looks a richmond player thru and thru
He already looks an upgrade on Castagna, aarts so good times ahead
He's not just a name or a spud,, the future is looking so bright we gota wear shades
from the highlights he is super quick, repeat tackles and pressure, in-instinctive goal sense
no pressure but looks a richmond player thru and thru
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where are the maurice rioli jnr first day of training pics ? i am disappoint
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Being in a dynasty and having guys like dusty. Balta. Lynch. Who the media love (or hate) will take away most if not all the pressure IMHO.
Will be more or less just another player. But we know he is the 2nd coming
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Anyone else see the Age article on MRJ , mentions his younger sister. Who if I read correctly at 15 played in the NT under 18's came to Tassie & kicked 11 goals. Played in 7 deg , where she couldn't feel her fingers.....
.....delicious!!.....Father daughter prospect??
.....delicious!!.....Father daughter prospect??
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Anyone have the Maurice Junior HUN article behind the paywall ?
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Can’t wait for a he generic pick of him standing in front of his dads portrait
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He comes from the ultimate football royalty. What does Maurice Rioli Jr think about following in his father’s footsteps at the Tigers?Anyone have the Maurice Junior HUN article behind the paywall ?
Maurice Rioli Jr, the son of Richmond legend and 1982 Norm Smith medallist Maurice Rioli Snr, has told of his pride in following his dad’s footsteps to Tigerland.
Rioli Jr was taken at pick 51 in Wednesday’s AFL national draft, flew into Melbourne from Darwin this week and will join cousin and triple premiership player Daniel at Punt Rd.
He is expected to start training with the club’s first-to-fourth year players next week.
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“I have a few memories of him. I don’t think he taught me footy, I can’t remember really, he used to take me to watch the footy in Darwin or back on the Islands, the local footy,” Rioli Jr told Nine newspapers.
“He would take us out hunting. I love fishing. I catch barras most of the time. Turtle you have to wait like an hour for them to get up and get them. Go shooting, shoot geese, magpie geese.
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Maurice Rioli Jr is now a Tiger. Picture: Felicity Elliott/AFLNT Media.
“I watched a few highlights of dad, which was pretty good to see where I get my bits from him. I can see some bits. I don’t model myself on him. I’m more a small forward obviously and just – hard, I would say.” ’
Rioli Sr died on Christmas Day 2010, aged 53.
The 175cm Maurice Jr had been a border at Scotch College before the coronavirus crises and was good friends with schoolmate and No. 1 draft pick Jamarra Ugle-Hagan.
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He has represented the Northern Territory in the NAB League and played for famous Darwin club St Mary’s last summer. It is not yet known what number he will wear at Richmond. Cousin Daniel wears his father’s famous No. 17.
Essendon made a bid to snatch Rioli Jr at the draft by nominating him at pick 51. But Richmond quickly matched the offer and took him as a father-son selection.
His dad is a club great with the Tigers as a three-time All-Australian, dual best and fairest and the first Indigenous player in the league to win a Norm Smith Medal.
Maurice Rioli Jr in action. Picture: Felicity Elliott/AFLNT Media.
St Mary’s co-captain Shannon Rioli told the Herald Sun earlier this year that Maurice Jr had the classic Rioli traits exhibited by his other cousins, ex-Hawthorn star Cyril and West Coast goalsneak Willie: fierce tackling, repeat efforts, pace and an eye for goals.
“He’s a jet,” Shannon said.
“We keep saying with every Rioli that comes through, but he could be the best of the lot.
“He’s already been doing stuff with Richmond and I know other teams would be keen on him — they’d be silly if they weren’t.
“We knew he was pretty handy and from a young age he was always better than most kids his age, but last season he did some pretty special things. The way he’s going, it’s looking like Richmond.”
The hype grew in February after Rioli kicked four goals in a best-on-ground performance in a semi-final for St Mary’s, where his father began his career.
Welcome to Tigerland Maurice .... and what an exciting time to land at Richmond! 
#SonOfAGun #yellowandblack #gotiges #back2back
#SonOfAGun #yellowandblack #gotiges #back2back
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Article says Dan and MJ are cousins.He comes from the ultimate football royalty. What does Maurice Rioli Jr think about following in his father’s footsteps at the Tigers?
Maurice Rioli Jr, the son of Richmond legend and 1982 Norm Smith medallist Maurice Rioli Snr, has told of his pride in following his dad’s footsteps to Tigerland.
Rioli Jr was taken at pick 51 in Wednesday’s AFL national draft, flew into Melbourne from Darwin this week and will join cousin and triple premiership player Daniel at Punt Rd.
He is expected to start training with the club’s first-to-fourth year players next week.
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“I have a few memories of him. I don’t think he taught me footy, I can’t remember really, he used to take me to watch the footy in Darwin or back on the Islands, the local footy,” Rioli Jr told Nine newspapers.
“He would take us out hunting. I love fishing. I catch barras most of the time. Turtle you have to wait like an hour for them to get up and get them. Go shooting, shoot geese, magpie geese.
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Maurice Rioli Jr is now a Tiger. Picture: Felicity Elliott/AFLNT Media.
“I watched a few highlights of dad, which was pretty good to see where I get my bits from him. I can see some bits. I don’t model myself on him. I’m more a small forward obviously and just – hard, I would say.” ’
Rioli Sr died on Christmas Day 2010, aged 53.
The 175cm Maurice Jr had been a border at Scotch College before the coronavirus crises and was good friends with schoolmate and No. 1 draft pick Jamarra Ugle-Hagan.
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He has represented the Northern Territory in the NAB League and played for famous Darwin club St Mary’s last summer. It is not yet known what number he will wear at Richmond. Cousin Daniel wears his father’s famous No. 17.
Essendon made a bid to snatch Rioli Jr at the draft by nominating him at pick 51. But Richmond quickly matched the offer and took him as a father-son selection.
His dad is a club great with the Tigers as a three-time All-Australian, dual best and fairest and the first Indigenous player in the league to win a Norm Smith Medal.
Maurice Rioli Jr in action. Picture: Felicity Elliott/AFLNT Media.
St Mary’s co-captain Shannon Rioli told the Herald Sun earlier this year that Maurice Jr had the classic Rioli traits exhibited by his other cousins, ex-Hawthorn star Cyril and West Coast goalsneak Willie: fierce tackling, repeat efforts, pace and an eye for goals.
“He’s a jet,” Shannon said.
“We keep saying with every Rioli that comes through, but he could be the best of the lot.
“He’s already been doing stuff with Richmond and I know other teams would be keen on him — they’d be silly if they weren’t.
“We knew he was pretty handy and from a young age he was always better than most kids his age, but last season he did some pretty special things. The way he’s going, it’s looking like Richmond.”
The hype grew in February after Rioli kicked four goals in a best-on-ground performance in a semi-final for St Mary’s, where his father began his career.
That's wrong.
MJ is actually Daniel's uncle.
yes that is right, despite being five years younger, MJ is Dan's uncle.
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Aren’t they technical cousins once removed?
MJs cousin is Dans old man and Dans grandfather is Seniors brother. At least that’s my understanding of their family tree.
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Exactly what i was going to say after watching his highlights.
Would be interested to know where his match fitness and endurance is at come seasons start.
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has this little campaigner started training yet ?
