Richmond will continue to focus on capitalising with scoreboard pressure early in games, an area coach Damien Hardwick is confident his team can rectify.
The Tigers kicked five behinds in the first quarter of Saturday’s loss to Geelong, allowing the Cats to generate an early lead.
Richmond rallied late in the game, but fell short by nine points.
“We’ve got to get that better. Our scoreboard pressure in probably every game we’ve lost, I think we’ve had nearly more scoring shots in the first quarter,” Hardwick said.
"Zero [goals] five [behinds], unfortunately you kick that and you don't actually put the opposition on the back foot at any stage.
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"It's something we've been working on but we've just got to make sure we continue to get better in that area because you never get your nose in front.”
Giving up three goals from direct centre clearances in the last quarter, and not capitalising on the momentum the Tigers’ generated in the second quarter were other issues that irked Hardwick.
“We were AFL number one for centre bounce goals last year, and this year we’re AFL 18,” he said.
“They’re easy goals. You can’t flood that situation, and to give up three in the last quarter, which took the game out of our reach, was disappointing.
"Overall, I thought their attitude and intensity was pretty good, but it's the consistency we're looking for. One week doesn't settle it."
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The Tigers could be bolstered by Brett Deledio next week, who said in a pre-match radio interview on ABC Radio he was hopeful of returning from a calf injury.
Hardwick wouldn’t apologise for the Tigers playing an attacking style that could result in turnovers.
"It's the way we're going to play. We're going to be attacking, we're going to be bold and unfortunately we're going to turn the ball over in certain situations also," he said.
"We've just got to make sure we continue to be clean inside 50. We had a number of opportunities when we had players out and for whatever reason we just botched them.
"We've been training it, we'll continue to train it and eventually it will click."
