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Tigers beef up midfield with Taranto trade move - CtrlF.XYZ

Tigers beef up midfield with Taranto trade move

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Richmond has struck the archetypal large woody of the 2022 commercialized period, acquiring GWS Giants midfielder Tim Taranto for a brace of draught picks.

After agreeing to a seven-year woody with the 24-year-old midfielder, the Tigers sent the Giants prime 12 and 19 successful this year's draught arsenic commercialized compensation.

Taranto's summation volition freshen up what is an ageing Tigers midfield, with Trent Cotchin, Dion Prestia and Dustin Martin present each connected the incorrect broadside of 30.

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Taranto, the No.2 prime successful the 2016 draft, joins Richmond having won 1 nine champion and fairest grant during his 114-game stint with the Giants successful 2019, the twelvemonth the AFL's newest nine was comprehensively beaten by the Tigers successful the expansive final.

"Tim is simply a subordinate we respect due to the fact that of his evident on-field quality and besides his enactment rate, precocious standards and enactment traits," Richmond's GM of football, Blair Hartley, said successful a connection of the acquisition of Taranto.

"At lone 24 years of age, Tim has a batch of precise bully shot up of him, and we are delighted that helium volition person the accidental to bash that successful yellowish and black.

"We deliberation Tim volition beryllium a precise fashionable subordinate among his caller teammates, coaches, staff, and of course, our protagonist base."

Richmond is besides expected to adhd Taranto's Giants teammate Jacob Hopper during the commercialized period, with the 25-year-old besides agreeing to a lucrative woody with the club.

"They're re-loading large time, this is going to beryllium a large twelvemonth adjacent year," erstwhile AFL recruiter Matt Rendell told AFL Trade Radio of the Taranto acquisition.

Giants GM of fooball Jason McCartney said the nine was blessed to fortify its draught manus successful the Taranto deal.

"While we'd intelligibly similar to support each of our players, circumstances dictate different and we're thrilled to unafraid a fantastic result for the Giants," helium said successful a nine statement.

"We worked with Richmond to unafraid a suitable commercialized for our club, and we're excited to instrumentality an highly beardown manus into this year's draught to proceed to physique a palmy database and adhd to our radical with immoderate of the country's apical talent.

"I would similar to convey Tim for his publication to the Giants implicit the past six years. He's been a committed and accordant subordinate for our nine but received a lucrative connection elsewhere that helium simply couldn't refuse.

"We privation Tim each the champion for the future."

The Giants were successful the heavy of the enactment connected the opening time of the commercialized period, sending young guardant Ian 'Bobby' Hill to Collingwood.

A twelvemonth aft he'd requested a commercialized to Essendon, Hill was to the Magpies on with prime 40 successful speech for prime 43 and a aboriginal second-round pick.

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