Prized Richmond key-forward recruit Tom Lynch played a pivotal role in the Tigers’ mighty, fighting victory over Fremantle at Optus Stadium yesterday, finishing the match with 15 disposals, eight marks, including a game-high six contested grabs, two goals and eight score involvements. Here’s a snapshot of his post-match interview with Perth radio station 6PR . . .

Responding to Matthew Lloyd’s comments last week that he was a liability in Richmond’s line-up

“Hopefully I wasn’t a liability tonight.”

Pre-game planning to take on one of the competition’s best key defenders in Alex Pearce

“Obviously he’s one of the bigger defenders going around and he’s very strong. I just concentrated on being physical with him and then my movement . . . I just tried to run hard tonight. I pride my game on my running, so I just wanted to run hard and that’s what I did.”

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Improvement with the team’s inside-50 entries

“I think we got caught the last few weeks with just bombing it in long, so we spoke about it during the week. We just want to hit that little lead-up, which just makes it so much easier for forwards. I think we did that really well tonight.”

Speedy, skilful, small Tiger forwards

“Geez, when the ball comes to ground they’re very quick on it, either picking it up and having shots, or putting that defensive pressure on.” 

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Nathan Broad’s first goal in AFL football

“It’s actually a massive thing in the Club (kicking your first AFL goal). He practises set shots in every training session and he hasn’t even kicked one yet. He’s a local Perth boy, so he’s pretty happy.”