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Maurice Rioli Jnr
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Going ok junior , tends to always have an almost moment , brilliant chase down , almost kicked a goal, brilliant transition to junior one out , prob needed to tap the ball out and use his pace , got a cruel bounce and bungled it , simply needs to Continue improving , hasn’t made it yet ,,, nail his chances , they are precious stop missing from point blank range
Yep, has a way to go, but already having an impact. Gee, seems to be the definition of a good young player to me.
Keeps his spot, contributes to the forward line, just needs to learn to create and take opportunities. These are his development goals and he is young so has time.
DS
Keeps his spot, contributes to the forward line, just needs to learn to create and take opportunities. These are his development goals and he is young so has time.
DS
Yep he has the qualities , needs to work with coaches and tune in , he’s already improved plenty so I expect that will continue
The VFL have a bye this weekend, before the last game of the year. No time to "retool". He has to play this week, and then consider if need be the following.
You are so right about "almost". You can see what he is trying to do- break tackles, outrun opponents, use the ball with brillance.
He cant quite do any of that yet. When, and IF (big IF) he can he will enter the rare stratosphere only inhabited by Riolis. (Just below Shai Bolton, who sits in the mesosphere all on his own.)
The vfl fixture is a mess. 4 byes this season in a 21 team comp.
Yep. I think he’s such a fast twitch type of guy I feel like he’s brain and his body aren’t always in synch. It looks like he’s thinking “what am I gunna do when I get the ball, I’ll kick it, no, I’ll run with it, no, I’ll handball.”. I reckon once he gets that right he,ll blossom.
Just signed a 9 yr deal.
Love this kid
Chase down tackles are the best.
The Bow & Arrow copped it and I laughed and I laughed and I laughed
Love this kid
Chase down tackles are the best.
The Bow & Arrow copped it and I laughed and I laughed and I laughed
And about 4 teams are hopeless, so in a 22rd season, they are probably only playing 13 or 14 games against decent opposition, makes it hard to judge form, and for kids to get ready for AFL football.
A different thread topic, but the AFL has killed the old VFA teams- maybe they would have been in trouble anyway, but forcing them into unions with AFL clubs, then letting the AFL clubs leave has left the likes of Coburg, Willy and Preston ruined.
Agree, the AFL is terrible at supporting lower levels of the game and destroying some very old teams with very long histories is a travesty.
DS
Best to have this league split into two divisions (relegate and promote)
He needs to add a trick or two , a famed Rioli one by Cyril and dan is when running at a contested ball , tap it on and try and out. Run opponent, junior doesnt do that, he should , I credit him for improving out of sight from where he was when he arrived , prob needs to improve by that margin again ,,,dont think there’s much doubt he has the talent , needs to put it all together
Moju's reminding me a bit of Michael Mitchell, sometimes seems to be going so fast he can't keep up with himself. Reckon a season or two in the game n he'll learn the subtle art of slowing himself down by half a second n it'll make all the difference to his game.
He is way ahead of where I thought he would be this year. His growth of his game from last year is exponential.
This. From what he started as I couldn’t even see him playing a game at this stage.
From the outside looking in he seems like a very mature and settled 19 year old. Can only improve you would hope.
At times MRJ is like a pet dog. Runs after the ball but either can't pick it up or doesn't know what to do with it when he does and then all of a sudden can catch the ball in the air and do wonders with it. It will come though, I have no doubt.
That's the thing that stands out, checkers. Ball handling not right despite flashes of brilliance. More time than he realises sometimes, less at others.
Almost. So close. It's tantalising. Looks like a confidence thing to me.
He was pretty good overall against Port. But if we can get his confidence right Young Maurice may level up for September.
My take was that MoJu was promoted on the back of Edwards missing, CT. But, as you say, maybe that's not right. My lament is that MoJu has missed the easy kills we had lined up for him. And the confidence and experience boost.
A month ago sent him to the Magoos to work on "creativity with the ball". He got one game against North and was very, very quiet for the first half. Probably on the back of his foregoing personal leave entitlements that week IMO. All fair enough. But he didn't get the development into him.
Nankervis played against Norfs having been scanned for PCL damage and electing to play. He was unmercifully flogged. Because IMO he was injured but playing. Lynch injured.
The next week against Freo we had to play Nankervis because no Lynch (injured). We knew that he wouldn't jump all game. I assumed because PCL. So we played Nank forward and Soldo did all the jumping.
If Nankervis in peak form plays #1 forward the ball is going to come out real hard because he will play shallow too often and still won't catch it. If he's got wobbly knee it's going to come out harder. Big trouble looming in the Freo game.
Further to that the Levi's Dockers have a fleet of running backs that set them up for a lot of their hurt. The Freo game looks as wobbly as Nank's knee did that day.
In the stands I was praying that MoJU would be sub and nobody was surprised when Dimma rorted the rule and brought MoJu on. It wasn't quite enough to get us over the line but it helped.
MoJu missed a second straight week of "creativity with the ball" development. Planned development.
Used as sub again the next week against he got it three times. Missed development. But he did get it twelve times against Port and had many almost moments.
Maybe we think we can level him up anyway. He got close last week. We'll see.
On the question of who might come into the side, CT, I read that you went to the VFA on the weekend. Who do you reckon might be close?
Edwards will probably just come in I reckon possibly as the subMy take was that MoJu was promoted on the back of Edwards missing, CT. But, as you say, maybe that's not right. My lament is that MoJu has missed the easy kills we had lined up for him. And the confidence and experience boost.
A month ago sent him to the Magoos to work on "creativity with the ball". He got one game against North and was very, very quiet for the first half. Probably on the back of his foregoing personal leave entitlements that week IMO. All fair enough. But he didn't get the development into him.
Nankervis played against Norfs having been scanned for PCL damage and electing to play. He was unmercifully flogged. Because IMO he was injured but playing. Lynch injured.
The next week against Freo we had to play Nankervis because no Lynch (injured). We knew that he wouldn't jump all game. I assumed because PCL. So we played Nank forward and Soldo did all the jumping.
If Nankervis in peak form plays #1 forward the ball is going to come out real hard because he will play shallow too often and still won't catch it. If he's got wobbly knee it's going to come out harder. Big trouble looming in the Freo game.
Further to that the Levi's Dockers have a fleet of running backs that set them up for a lot of their hurt. The Freo game looks as wobbly as Nank's knee did that day.
In the stands I was praying that MoJU would be sub and nobody was surprised when Dimma rorted the rule and brought MoJu on. It wasn't quite enough to get us over the line but it helped.
MoJu missed a second straight week of "creativity with the ball" development. Planned development.
Used as sub again the next week against he got it three times. Missed development. But he did get it twelve times against Port and had many almost moments.
Maybe we think we can level him up anyway. He got close last week. We'll see.
On the question of who might come into the side, CT, I read that you went to the VFA on the weekend. Who do you reckon might be close?
