McAlmanac wrote:The name Rioli is not even actually mentioned by Blight. Parentheses are usually inserted by journalists and I would say the journalist has inserted the words "of reaching Rioli". It's probably in response to a question about what Petrenko has to do to reach the next level and the journalist has used Rioli as an example. The "pound for pound" line is an assertion from the journalist. So what other quote of Blight's equates Petrenko with Rioli?
Yep it's just the journalists pumping Puppa up saying he could be the next Rioli and not Blight, another case of the Advertiser footy journalists printing Bullsh!t, taking a few comments someone has said and running with them to write some Bullsh!t article.
Puppa is one of the best blokes I've ever met, real nice guy and I was lucky enough to play cricket with him in U/16s at Port and he was a gun cricketer back then. He was bloody quick, nobody wanted to face him in the nets.

I recall him bowling pretty much full pace to Piccachu at training one night and bouncing him a few times, was scary to watch.
Obviously footy came before cricket (shoulders injuries didn't do him much good either) and he is where he is now but he should never be compared to Cyril! LMAO. Cyril is something else.