An honour to share the field
A tribute to Willie Rioli Sr, a legend of NTFL and WAFL footy, who spent a year as a teammate at Hawthorn in 1991.
Willie Rioli Sr was Hawthorn’s number 50 pick in the 1990 National Draft. He was the shortest footballer on the list, practically the shortest I’d ever seen, and he was recruited from South Fremantle in the WAFL by new Hawthorn senior coach Alan Joyce, who’d watched him firsthand when he returned to recruiting in 1989-90.
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