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Eagles left fuming after Rioli's trade request - CtrlF.XYZ

Eagles left fuming after Rioli's trade request

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Junior Rioli's commercialized petition has near the West Coast Eagles "bitterly disappointed" aft supporting him during his two-year doping ban.

After playing a cardinal relation successful the club's 2018 premiership win, Rioli recovered his vocation astatine a crossroads conscionable 12 months aboriginal erstwhile helium was banned for substituting a urine sample connected the eve of the 2019 finals.

Rioli returned to the tract this play pursuing the ban, but has asked retired successful a bid to caput to South Australia, wherever helium has household ties, and it's a determination that's not sat good with the Eagles.

"We could not person done immoderate much to enactment Junior since his infraction successful 2019," Eagles CEO Trevor Nisbett said successful a connection connected Wednesday.

"We facilitated his entreaty and consequent instrumentality to football, truthful this determination is bitterly disappointing.

"We volition enactment that disappointment to 1 broadside present and enactment to put a suitable commercialized for a subordinate who has precocious extremity talent, is simply a premiership subordinate and is successful the premier of his career, having played conscionable 51 games of elder football.

"Junior has made his determination and portion helium has indicated Port is his preferred destination we volition enactment to get the champion result for our club."

Rioli spoke of his tendency to extremity up astatine Port Adelaide aft being spotted successful South Australia conscionable implicit a week ago, wherever helium met with 2004 Port premiership subordinate Shaun Burgoyne.

Rioli hopeful of Port Adelaide move

"Hopefully (see myself astatine Port adjacent year), we'll spot however it goes," helium told 9News Adelaide.

"I'll spot if my manager tin look aft maine and enactment retired a bully thing. I don't recognize each of that, I'm not into the authorities broadside of footy.

"If I could acceptable myself up for the remainder of my life, that's each I privation to do. Definitely (a large determination for the family). I've been done excessively overmuch successful the past 18 months truthful I conscionable privation to marque the astir of being successful the manufacture I americium now."

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