 Rioli's season was however, still seen as impressive.In the AFL website's end of year review, it was predicted that he will be considered an elite AFL player in the coming years.Approaching the end of the 2009 season, Rioli bought his first apartment and declared his allegiance to spending his whole career with Hawthorn, he also revealed his intentions to help bring more players down from the Northern Territory; "That's the real goal for me, to get more kids drafted from the Northern Territory."