Rioli breaks silence on mooted Port trade move

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Junior Rioli says helium is hopeful helium tin onshore astatine Port Adelaide during this year's commercialized period, revealing it's a determination helium and his precocious begetter had planned earlier his abrupt decease this year.

Port Adelaide is understood to person tabled a lucrative multi-year connection for the talented West Coast Eagles goalsneak, who is retired of contract. He has already undergone a aesculapian with the club.

Rioli met with Port Adelaide premiership prima Shaun Burgoyne successful Adelaide connected Monday, who helium says helped springiness him a position of what it's similar to unrecorded successful Adelaide.

The 27-year-old is hoping helium receives a declaration connection that sets him up for beingness pursuing a tumultuous 18 months.

"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."

After bursting onto the country with 28 goals and a premiership successful his debut play successful 2018, Rioli's vocation took a troublesome crook erstwhile helium was deed with a two-year doping prohibition that caused him to miss some the 2020 and 2021 seasons.

Having lone made his instrumentality from the prohibition this season, Rioli is hoping helium tin find immoderate stableness successful the coming years.

"To play the champion footy you've got to beryllium comfortable, and for me, I learnt that erstwhile I wasn't playing footy," helium said.

"I was playing bully footy, but I wasn't comfortable, I wasn't stable. So I'd similar to beryllium unchangeable and I cognize I'll get the champion retired of my footy."

Rioli's father, Willie Sr, died of a bosom onslaught astatine conscionable 50 successful July, and had been helping his lad crippled his adjacent move.

"A batch of this has been weighed up since earlier I came backmost to footy," helium revealed.

"It's benignant of been planned with maine and my dad, but it's been a spot dilatory present that my dad's not here.

"It'll enactment itself out, but I've got nary plans truthful far, conscionable to spell wherever my manager tells maine to go."

Rioli was drafted by the Eagles with the 52nd prime of the 2016 draught and has played 51 games and kicked 60 goals for the club.

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