Rioli did not want a longer contract on what Richmond offered him and was prepared to back himself to get more and rightfully soBeen a lot of questionable contract decisions of late. Here's a few that have made no sense whatsoever:
1) Josh Caddy was given a 2 year extension in March 2020, the return on investment was 6 games total played for those 2 years. Why would they extend a guy that clearly was out of favour with Hardwick and not in his plans since 2019. If they had've waited til the end of 2020 they could've traded him to a crap team whilst he still had some value. Instead we paid him $1mil for 2 years and get 6 measly games return. Yet we can't afford Cerra for $600,000 p/a when we'd been secretly dealing with him for years in advance.
2) Ivan Soldo was given a 3 year extension September 2021. He hadn't played in the previous year and a half because of his knee (Fair enough as big fellars take a while to recover from knees). He's played 12 games this year averaging 7 posessions, 2 marks and 13 hit-outs a game. The worst thing is the number of times we've kicked to him and he doesn't seem to know how to move with the flight of the ball, some have been down right comical. He's getting outmarked or if it hits the ground forget it the opposition will clear it 9 out of 10. The way he's playing this year is borderline useless. 2 more years to go? Would we even miss him if he left.
3) Castagna extended 2 years in August 2021. Just why?
4) Daniel Rioli extended 1 year August 2021. Why only 1 year when Castagna got 2 as his last 2 months at HBF was great?
5) Chol & CCJ both left uncontracted til end of 2021. Clubs head explodes when realised blokes starved of opportunity would think to look elsewhere.
Big decisions coming up in the next few months contract wise. Get it wrong and we're stuffed?
He would have increased his offer by $100k a year
he will get 4 years $2 mil now rather than $1.5 mil