RICHMOND coach Damien Hardwick is repentant about his abuse of an emergency umpire during the to 19-point loss to Essendon last Saturday night.

Hardwick was given a suspended $5000 fine on Wednesday for his comments towards the umpire on the interchange bench during the third quarter.

Essendon led by 25 points at three-quarter time after kicking 4.2 to the Tigers' 5.8 in the third quarter.

"It wasn't one of my finer moments," Hardwick said.

"With the state of the game, I got a bit carried away. I overstepped the mark. I regretted it straight away.

"I spoke the emergency umpire Michael yesterday. He was a ripper fella. He likened me to a young John McEnroe, which is probably not a great look.

"They're such important people in the game. I told Michael I understood that and he accepted my apology.

"I was rightly whacked."

Tall forward Tyrone Vickery, who has been out with a calf injury, trained with the main group at Punt Road on Thursday morning and is under consideration for the match against Hawthorn at the MCG on Saturday afternoon.