Richmond coach Damien Hardwick has nominated Jack Riewoldt’s pass to skipper Trent Cotchin as the highlight of the Tiger spearhead’s performance yesterday.

Deep into the final term Riewoldt marked in the pocket and looked to line up for a set shot, which may have netted his 12^th goal of the afternoon.

Instead, he passed the footy to skipper Trent Cotchin in a better position to score.

Hardwick described that kick as his favourite passage of play.

"For him to actually come back and give the ball to Cotchin I think late when he could have kicked more goals is probably testament to the kid he is," Hardwick said after the match.

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The man himself shrugged off the pass to Cotchin.

"When the captain calls for the ball you kick it to him," Riewoldt told Fox Sports immediately after the final siren.

"It is not about who kicks the goals. It is about putting goals on the scoreboard.

"We thought we could put 20 goals on them today. We've done that."

Riewoldt, who endured a difficult lead-in to the game against GWS after ill-advised comments about Richmond’s game plan, said it had been an emotional week.

"I was pretty devastated with how it came across, I let the coach down, I let the side down," Riewoldt said.

"Today I just came in with the mindset of just trying to repay the faith back in (Hardwick) and the boys and the footy club.

"I am just happy with the performance, really really happy that the football club has the four points and looking forward to playing Essendon at Dreamtime next week."

Riewoldt kicked four goals in the opening term, added three more in the second quarter before another four in the third quarter.

His first miss came at the 17th minute of the last quarter, and he added another behind in the dying stages.

The 11-goal haul eclipses his previous best of 10 and catapulted him to the top of the Coleman Medal standings on 28 goals, three ahead of Port Adelaide’s Jay Schulz.

Hardwick said Riewoldt "responded in the way we would have liked".

"His defensive efforts early were fantastic and then to get rewarded offensively was very good." Hardwick said.

"He got a kick in the backside last week but we move on pretty quick and he answered in the best way possible."