Certified Legendary Thread Welcome Tim Taranto & Jacob Hopper

[Rioli2Rioli]

These two will be handy but they are both injury prone. I hope we aren't paying them overs.

Whilst they have had injuries this year i wouldnt really call them injury prone

Hopper missed a chunk this year due to his 2 x knee surgery's

But if you are to look at their games they have both played 114 games
Tim Taranto
2017 - 14 games (debut year as )
2018 - 23 games
2019 - 26 games (B & F in GF year)
2020 - 11 games (17 game season Contact shoulder injury)
2021 - 24 games
2022 - 16 games

Jacob Hopper
2016 - 10 games
2017 - 13 games
2018 - 21 games
2019 - 23 games
2020 - 17 games (17 game season Contact shoulder injury)
2021 - 23 games 7 games

Hoppers 1st and 2nd year were more development years and he was played sparingly similar to most young mids and its only 2022 where he has had the knee injury thats effected his games

Also need to keep in mind that both these boys have pretty much walked into a midfield stacked with top end mids the like never seen before

 

[Meteoric Rise]

These two will be handy but they are both injury prone. I hope we aren't paying them overs.

Hopper missed 7 games in 4 seasons before 2022. Before that he was in his first 2 seasons and I don’t think he was an automatic selection.

Taranto has missed I think 13 games in his 6 season career through injury, including 2022.

I am not across what their 2022 injuries were but prior to that you wouldn’t have called either of them injury prone.

Lol, I didn’t realise others were already onto this before I posted.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

Whilst they have had injuries this year i wouldnt really call them injury prone

Hopper missed a chunk this year due to his 2 x knee surgery's

But if you are to look at their games they have both played 114 games
Tim Taranto
2017 - 14 games (debut year as )
2018 - 23 games
2019 - 26 games (B & F in GF year)
2020 - 11 games (17 game season Contact shoulder injury)
2021 - 24 games
2022 - 16 games

Jacob Hopper
2016 - 10 games
2017 - 13 games
2018 - 21 games
2019 - 23 games
2020 - 17 games (17 game season Contact shoulder injury)
2021 - 23 games 7 games

Hoppers 1st and 2nd year were more development years and he was played sparingly similar to most young mids and its only 2022 where he has had the knee injury thats effected his games

Also need to keep in mind that both these boys have pretty much walked into a midfield stacked with top end mids the like never seen before

Taranto plays forward a lot. Their recent injuries are still a slight concern for me.

 

[RichLeMonde]

I resent this, being a socialist - of the unreconstructed variety! We want to crush the bourgeoisie (Melbourne, Hawthorn and Carlton in particular). Geelong also need to be crushed because of all the Western Districts, Geelong Grammar scum on their list. The only equality of outcome I want is a utopia where everyone gets free Netflix, Richmond wins every final and Sam Newman is guilloutined as pre-match entertainment for one of the Grannies.

In other words, the only good hegemony is a hegemony of the Richmond class

 

[Calcium Man]

Taranto plays forward a lot. Their recent injuries are still a slight concern for me.

There is always an injury risk with any player or draftee (Sonsie and Banks both came in injured), but it’s not like this history is littered with injuries unlike Prestia and Lynch when they arrived.

Besides neither will be coming to the club injured considering they both played out the season (bar Taranto's concussion). Lynch and Prestia came to us injured and missed chunks of their first preseason.

 

[Rioli2Rioli]

Dion was drafted in 2010 and played 6 years at GC for 95 games and now has played 97 games for Richmond in 6 years averaging roughly 15 games a year

 

[4tune8]

Bit of back peddling from Cornes here.....bit different when the shoe's on the other foot, hey!

Cornes 'nervous' as Power pursue long-term Dunkley deal

Port Adelaide have reportedly tabled an offer for the Dogs midfielder.

www.sen.com.au

 

[Drunken Wookie]

Bit of back peddling from Cornes here.....bit different when the shoe's on the other foot, hey!

Cornes 'nervous' as Power pursue long-term Dunkley deal

Port Adelaide have reportedly tabled an offer for the Dogs midfielder.

www.sen.com.au

Dunkley's better than Taranto, **** off lol.

 

[Morro]

Dunkley's better than Taranto, * off lol.

Hard to split them

I can’t chose.

 

[Drunken Wookie]

Hard to split them

I can’t chose.

Dunkley's a vanilla extractor imo. A lot more to like about Taranto. Remember that game he destroyed us playing as a forward randomly. I reckon we'll see his best in yellow and black.

 

[tiger_tough]

Dunkley is better than Taranto

 

[Morro]

Dunkley's a vanilla extractor imo. A lot more to like about Taranto. Remember that game he destroyed us playing as a forward randomly. I reckon we'll see his best in yellow and black.

They’re both jets IMO.

I’d take either in a heart beat.

But yes I remember the 5 he kicked against us

 

[Drunken Wookie]

They’re both jets IMO.

I’d take either in a heart beat.

But yes I remember the 5 he kicked against us

Not saying he's not good and I'd take him for sure. But Taranto's capable of being a match winner. Dunkley get's a heap of the pill.

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

Lol the types who promote equality of outcome above all else as the rest of my post went through

Sorry if the rest of the socialists were offended by this. You know the type lol

The ones who have an inability to perceive second order effects. The ones with ruinous detrimental empathy. Genocidal tendencies Those ones lol

Capitalist sub titles please...big ones too...

 

[prodigy]

Dunkley's better than Taranto, * off lol.

If im being honest, Dunkley is currently a better player.
We don't know the ceiling that Taranto can get to though.

 

[Tomnat Tigers]

All this talk in the media about how the equalisation policy of the AFL has failed, are missing the point. The salary cap is the equalisation as every club is dealing with the same amount of money to pay their players. The problem arises when clubs overpay for their players and then can't afford to keep the ones they want to keep or bring in new players they want to bring in because they simply don't have the room.

We've managed our cap better than any side in the league and at the end of next year when the likes of Cotchin Riewoldt Tarrant & Grimes come out of contract we will have freed up space to allow us to re-sign the likes of Bolton Balta Graham & Nankervis without really facing the prospect of losing any of them unless an opposition club offered well over what we're offering to keep them and if they do, it works in our favour again to let them go and free up more space for another raid on an opposition side.

The biggest issues is clubs use the off season to build hype to sell memberships. They get lost in the process of doing what is best for the team in short term with what is best for their future.

It shows how stupid the footballing world is that they are questioning how it possible for Richmond to acquire both Tarranto and Hopper. Every decision has a consequence. In 2018 when we picked up Lynch that domino effect led to the departure of Butler and Conca. There wasn't room for two guys to be on 300k a season especially given the depth in their positions.

In 2020 when Higgins departed, we could have held him to his contract and tried to convince him that he is young player and the opportunity will come but we settled for what was a fair deal based on output at that stage. That decision alone freed up another 300k we otherwise wouldn't have had plus the draft pick.

We basically decided to trade out of the 2020 draft while trading for no established talent which meant no real incoming of talent for that season but meant a bigger draft hand for 2021. In the same period we allowed Chol and CCJ to leave which resulted in a better draft hand for which we get to use the key piece of that deal in this up coming trade and draft period. We could and fought harder to keep those guys but in doing so would have meant given up the cap space that Taranto and Hopper will eat up.

No one bats an eye lid if Higgins, Chol, CCJ and Butler were on 300-350k a season but Taranto and Hopper on 700-750k all of a sudden becomes an issue. The 200k gap is the difference in what Riewoldt and Cotchin chose to take.

Also funnily enough I don't hear complaints about Richmond being poached of these players or our coaches for that matter. Nor do I care as it's how the industry works but the hypocrisy especially by the media is a joke.

 

[Cotcho]

not offended, but i'm not sure any actual socialists are for equal outcome, more so equal opportunity if anything

from the man karl marx himself "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs", which is against 'equality of outcome'

could go in to this further but i understand you're just using socialism as the classic buzzword that mainstream media has fed you lot, red scare still going strong. plus who the hell wants to talk about this crap on a sports forum

Very fair. And yep, no need to discuss political systems on a sports forum. I didn’t intend to make it about that.

Ignore that I said “socialists” it’s obviously a very loaded term.

What I mean is there’s an idea permeating society at the moment…. And it’s reared it’s ugly head in the past. The idea that the outcome ought to be even as evidence that things are “fair”. It’s not true.

And if we don’t call out people like Kane who make statements like this, then you simply risk more and more people following suit. Because that’s also what traditionally happens.

Look at what Richmond and Geelong have done on and off the field to attract players. Every club is free to do the same.

Look at what players have gone to GWS from other clubs.

Look at average ladder position over the last decade.

Look at the salary cap squeeze they’ve got.

Look at Collingwood losing players to Footscray in a similar squeeze and then in a prelim final the following year.

It’s just so lazy to have a sook “oh it’s a big club raiding a poor club”. It’s envy.

Just like it’s lazy to assume anyone/anything who got anywhere had some secret advantage or privilege and it’s the only reason why anything happens.



Happy to have a discussion in a private chat about the Marx statement though.

 

[Cotcho]

Capitalist sub titles please...big ones too...

Haha ok

“The rising Richmond tide lifts all teams.”

“Hatred and anger over Richmond are the greatest poisons to an oppos mind”

“I swear by my AFL viewing life, and love of it, that I’ll never ask Richmond to play for the sake of another team. Nor ask another team to play for the sake of Richmond”

 

[Rocco sifreddi]

Dunkleys foot skills are dogshit , yeh he is a ball winner and also a ball butcher.

 

[tiger_tough]

Dunkleys foot skills are dogshit , yeh he is a ball winner and and also a ball butcher.

His kicking efficiency is far better than Hoppers this year and slightly less than Tarantos. Dunkley is a gun.

 

[Rocco sifreddi]

His kicking efficiency is far better than Hoppers this year and slightly less than Tarantos. Dunkley is a gun.

Stats are a load of shit

 

[Cotcho]

When’s trade week? Finals series so boring compared to this years trade week.

We better not get these trades done day 1. Need to savour it. Enjoy it. Give oppo hope that it’s not going to happen

 

[Red Pill]

Gws asking for two firsts for Hopper...

Bombshell trade rumour shut down; Eye-watering price for Giants star: Trade Whispers

Blues respond to bombshell trade rumour; Eye-watering price for Giants star: Trade Whispers

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[Cotcho]

Gws asking for two firsts for Hopper...

Bombshell trade rumour shut down; Eye-watering price for Giants star: Trade Whispers

Blues respond to bombshell trade rumour; Eye-watering price for Giants star: Trade Whispers

www.foxsports.com.au

“Richmond currently holds first-round picks for this year and year next year, which will make it difficult to satisfy the Giants to part with both Hopper and Taranto.”

Wot?

 

[DickieKnee]

When’s trade week? Finals series so boring compared to this years trade week.

We better not get these trades done day 1. Need to savour it. Enjoy it. Give oppo hope that it’s not going to happen

The double doozy week.