Richmond is not yet on the winners list as the coronavirus crisis ended the AFL season when Damien Hardwick’s men fought against St. Kilda on Saturday night for control.
The Tigers scored the first goal, but from then on things went downhill when the Saints ran out with 26 points.
The Tiger train is currently not on the route. The premieres of 2019 occupy 11th place. St. Kilda champion Nick Riewoldt said they looked “frustrated” after a series of off-character appearances.
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“They’re just fighting for shape, I think it’s that easy,” he said after the game on Fox Footy.
“We have waited week after week for the first three weeks since we started the season again. They just couldn’t grasp it with a degree of consistency.
“We saw it in batches against Collingwood, they have been pretty good defensively to this day, where they were opened at times.
“We saw it again at the beginning of the game, they scored the first goal and looked around and thought, here they are, here are the tigers.
“This is a team that has done great things in the past three years, and they are not at this level at the moment.”
Riewoldt said the Tigers system had collapsed, and Jason Dunstall suggested that St. Kilda’s pressure never allowed Richmond to play his game.
“We only see glimpses of football that has done this for them in the past three years,” he said.
“Every now and then you see a passage and go ‘here they come, they’re ready to go’. But the pressure from St. Kilda did not allow them to do it differently than occasionally. “
Richmond meets the west coast on the gold coast in round 5.
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