Richmond coach Damien Hardwick maintains the Tigers' best is good enough despite another a third frustrating result in as many weeks.

The Tigers played out the first draw of the AFL season on Friday night, locking up with Fremantle on 7.10 (52) apiece at Marvel Stadium.

It follows an after-the-siren defeat to Gold Coast and losing to lowly North Melbourne during a frantic finish last week.

Noah Balta and Noah Cumberland had chances to win the game for Richmond against Fremantle, but were unable to kick an all-important score which would've given Hardwick's side a much-needed four points.

With just under two minutes to go, Balta had his shot smothered by Michael Frederick after he was called to play on, before Cumberland also had a chance to win the game but opted to play on as the siren sounded.

It was another blow to the Tigers' top-eight hopes, and they could drop to as low as 10th by the end of the round.

"(Cumberland's) disappointed, and the kid would be, but the fact of the matter is it's a part of the whole equation," Hardwick said.

"There's a number of things we didn't do that well and a number of things we did.

"We made some errors defensively and offensively that cost us goals the other way.

"It's a mountain, there's a summit out there and we don't know which way it will take us.

"What we do know is that our best footy will challenge sides and if we just get it right at the right time."