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TT is a gun midfielder. His midfield career suffered at GWS because unlike Kelly, Coniglio, Hopper etc… TT can play forward. So when Toby Greene was out TT had to spend time up forward… where he is capable but certainly not great. When solely playing midfield the guy is a gun, and that’s the opportunity he will get at Richmond.
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The same pundits who bashed Richmond for trading for Dion Prestia have lined up again. Here is why the Tigers’ monster offer for Tim Taranto can pay off.
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When you are in a street-fight with a dangerous foe it pays to strike at their most vulnerable areas.For Greater Western Sydney, so desperate to keep their No. 2 overall pick in Tim Taranto, a monster offer from a rival club was always likely to pry him loose.
But for the Giants especially, the long-term nature of the seven-year deal Richmond has offered was always their version of getting a low blow that ends the fight.
GWS knows it is already saddled with a bunch of long-term deals to Josh Kelly (2029), Stephen Coniglio (2026) and Lachie Whitfield (2027) so could never risk that type of tenure, even for a player that loves the club.
So the Tigers will get their man and that deal, revealed by the Sunday Herald Sun, will also ward off Collingwood’s strong interest.
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One of these days a seven-year deal will backfire spectacularly on a club, and it arguably already has given Collingwood is prepared to pay $300,000 of Brodie Grundy’s $1 million a year deal for the next five years.
But if some recency bias means Taranto has tumbled down the list of hot emerging mids, he should prove a spectacularly good addition to Richmond’s midfield.
This year everyone is wild about Josh Dunkley, who amassed 585 touches, 101 clearances and 18 goals in his brilliant season playing midfield and forward.
Taranto battled a grumbly back injury and concussion this year, but as recently as last season he amassed 637 possessions, kicked 13 goals, had 103 clearances and was awarded 15 Brownlow votes.
When played as a pure mid in 2019 he had 721 touches, averaged five clearances, still kicked 11 goals, was rated the Giants best grand final performer and won the best-and-fairest.
He has never been a great kick but playing as a mid forward this year he was elite for disposals, contested possessions and pressure and a surprising above average for inside-50 kicks.
The same critics who bashed Richmond for trading picks 6 for Dion Prestia and pick 24 (which was on-traded for dual premiership player Josh Caddy) have lined up to kick a seven-year deal.
Long term deals have been criticised in some quarters. Picture: Dylan Burns
It doesn’t make Richmond immune from future mistakes but look at their record.
The only players secured from other clubs on the entire list next year will be Tom Lynch, Toby Nankervis, Dion Prestia and Robbie Tarrant.
Carlton had 18 this year, Essendon and Geelong 10.
If they had drafted at pick six (it slid to pick 7) in the Prestia year their options were Jack Scrimshaw, Griffin Logue, Will Brodie and Jack Bowes.
The same year they used the Tyrone Vickery compo pick on a skinny kid called Shai Bolton.
They got Nankervis for pick 46, and he is now a triple premiership co-captain and only 28 years of age.
Lynch was a free agent who cost them millions but nothing from a trade perspective.
Richmond has always been fairly miserly with contract offers for its mid-tier players and if Lynch and Dustin Martin will be on seven figures next year surely Jack Riewoldt and Trent Cotchin will play for much less than 2022.
If this is a monster mistake then at least it is targeted and done with a 24-year-old inside beast with flawless character.
Will the Taranto trade help Damien Hardwick in his mini list reset? Picture: Chris Hyde/AFL Photos/via Getty Images
Even the last years of the seven-year deal will be fulfilled with the collective bargaining agreement having risen twice that time.
At least the Tigers know exactly what they want.
At Melbourne they seem to be fixing their forward needs by trading for Brodie Grundy when it would push Max Gawn out of his preferred position and into a role where he has kicked two goals in eight games.
Taranto has the traits and qualities that will help fill in the gaps for Richmond to play exactly how they want to in the next five years.
He might not be flashy enough to win the Brownlow Medal, but if Shai Bolton does next year in a Richmond team that returns to the top four, Taranto’s acquisition might have helped make it possible.
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Lids always knew
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Just announce it already
I think thats always the case and over rating on the oppo board like our posts make a difference to the trade result at the end
Blair is a good operator and so is McCartney and both teams seem to have a good working relationship and we may even over pay but its good will
They payed up for Lids
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Yeah, like Prestia, just another dumb decision by the club. GC were no good in the middle either at the time we got him over. We should really focus on Aarts and George in the middle.
Best player from the 2016 draft is Shai Bolton - Lids knows NOTHINGGGGGGGGGGGGG
* Tod Marshall also from the 2016 draft (just saying
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Best player from the 2016 draft is Shai Bolton - Lids knows NOTHINGGGGGGGGGGGGG
* Tod Marshall also from the 2016 draft (just saying
I'm not peddling hyperbole when I say that getting Taranto across would be the biggest mistake any organisation has ever made in the history of professional sports. In fact, it would be in the top 10 greatest mistakes made in human history.
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100%. Club is going to the dogs. i am sensing a spoon next year.
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Writing was on the wall when we contracted Hardwick after winning a few flags
Should've at least waited to see if we three-peated. Contracting him when we did is just rewarding mediocrity.
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So you are saying we are going for Dunkley
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That was my fave part.
A year after Adam Treloar spurned Richmond because he believed Collingwood was closer to a premiership, Prestia said the Tigers’ list was his deciding factor.
The onballer can’t wait to join captain Trent Cotchin and superstar Dustin Martin in the midfield and believes a return to September is possible in 2017.
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