The Tigers departed for Queensland on Friday afternoon - on a plane and not a bus, as was the travel mode they were forced to endure home from Sydney on Monday due to the ash cloud - for their third match on the road in four weeks.
The Tigers lost to the Sydney Swans by 10 points last Sunday, and two weeks before that, Port Adelaide by 15 points in Darwin. They had their first bye in between.
Despite a win-free record away from Melbourne in season 2011, coach Damien Hardwick said his side's love of travel together - emphasised by their bonding 12-hour bus trip less than a week ago - and its continuing enthusiasm gave Richmond a good chance of winning its first game since the round nine victory against Essendon.
"Our guys, every time they go away, they now look to win every game," he said at the airport on Friday.
"Last year, I don't think we could honestly say the same, but now we go into every game expecting to win, which is a real credit to our guys and I think that travel journey certainly helps.
"The one thing about our group and Chris Newman is a real leader in this, is the enthusiasm of our group can never be questioned.
"We've had a couple of narrow losses in the last couple of weeks but we feel we're just a smidgen away from turning that around.
"The guys are really well driven, they're enthusiastic and they're ready to play and we're looking forward to a great challenge on Saturday night."
The Tigers played the Lions in round six, when they emerged triumphant to the tune of 26 points at the MCG.
Hardwick said the rematch against the 15th-placed team, which has two wins compared to the Tigers' four, was one they had earmarked.
"They're probably the games we expect to win, obviously from a talent point of view," he said.
"We're both very young, developing sides but we're encouraged by our performances over the last month.
"We think we're quite capable of winning the game. We've just got to get a number of things right, we've worked on some things over the course of this week and hopefully they come out on Saturday night for us."
He also said holding Lions veterans Jonathan Brown - who hasn't played against Richmond since round seven, 2009, when he kicked four goals - Simon Black and Luke Power was hugely important to the Tigers' chances.
"The impact of Jonathan Brown, he's been one of the best players of the last decade and we've got a number of plans in place to try and quell his influence," he said.
"The great thing about champion players is when the game's there to be won, they'll lift and we've got no doubt he'll be up and going.
"[Alex] Rance and [Luke] McGuane and those types of players will get a fair crack at him but it's going to be a team defence on Jonathan, there's no doubt about that.
"Black has nearly 40 touches against us last time. Dan Jackson was out suspended so he'll obviously come back and hopefully do a job thereabouts on him
"Luke Power kicked three or four goals last time so both guys got under our guard and we'll be making sure that doesn't happen again."
While defender David Astbury is out of the side with a dislocated kneecap, the Tigers have regained McGuane after he was a late withdrawal last week with soreness, while Jayden Post has been recalled.
Hardwick indicated he would consider using Post as a substitute player given his ability to swing between the forward and back lines, and in the ruck.
He also said the Tigers hadn't been forced into changing their recovery techniques this week after the long bus ride, and had used round six's win over the Lions in their preparation.
"We learned a lot of things that game, and we'll look at it in great detail - some things that Brisbane did that actually hurt us and we weren't happy with our boys that we didn't respond quick enough and we'll look to rectify that this week," he said.
