Gabby Seymour reflected on her side’s 2024 campaign with pride following Sunday’s Elimination Final loss to Port Adelaide.

Speaking to Richmond Media following Sunday’s Elimination Final loss, Seymour took plenty of positives from the season, and expressed her excitement for the future.

“There’s a lot of great things that we can take out of the season,” she said.

“This is just the start of our journey.”

With injuries and illness impacting the Tigers on Sunday afternoon, the 28-year-old labelled the contest at Alberton Oval as “a little bit of a battle."

“The team is really disappointed; You never plan to end the campaign…(and) we look forward to being back here (in finals),” Seymour said.

“I thought Port Adelaide put out a really strong performance. It felt like every time we kicked a goal they had an answer, and that’s finals footy.

“Unfortunately, you can’t have everything go your way at this time of year, and you do have to work through injury.

“We had some who we weren’t even sure were going to be able take the field, and I thought every girl who stepped on the field battled hard and put their best foot forward.

Seymour identified offence as a key growth area from this season, and believes it will hold her side in good stead for the future.

“I’m most proud of how our offensive game has really developed. I see that as our biggest growth, as well as continuing to develop how we move the ball and having multiple methods to our attack,” she said.

Despite bowing out of the finals, the vice-captain expressed her excitement for the future.

“I have a lot of faith that this group will come back better and stronger next year, because we love being around each other and around the club,” Seymour said.

Like Seymour, Richmond AFLW coach Ryan Ferguson is excited for what lies ahead for his side.

“This is the start of a journey of a team growing and rising to challenges, and then being challenged and fighting back,” he said.

“We’ll use this to get stronger. We’ll be back bigger and better than ever.

“We want to win…this is sometimes the path of growth and the path of forging a way to be a really strong top-four team year-in-year-out.

“When you sum it all up and you work out a path forward and you realise how you’ve grown…it’s going to be really exciting.

“I’m excited for what this can actually bring to our group, and how this can make us a bigger, stronger and more resilient outfit.”