Friday night's clash with GWS is crunch time for Richmond, who sit two points behind the eighth-placed Giants with two games to play in the home-and-away campaign, as they attempt to keep their three-peat hopes alive.
Coach Damien Hardwick said the Tigers, winners of three of the past four grand finals, were "in a reasonable place with big-game experience" and felt they were hitting their straps ahead of Friday's "enormous challenge".
"There's been bits and pieces that have improved. There's been some inconsistency of performance - we'd obviously like to iron out those," he said.
"But we look at the way we've been playing there's been more Richmond-like performances - if that makes sense - in the way we've gone about the game and the way we've played.
"So look, ideally we'd still love to be in a little bit better shape than what we are at the moment but there's some things that we're doing in our game that we really like."
Hardwick said defender Nathan Broad was "probably 50-50 to play again this year" after failing to pull up well in his recovery from a syndesmosis injury.
Wingman Kamdyn McIntosh is in contention to return from a hamstring injury, while Hardwick hinted debutant Maurice Rioli Jnr and fellow youngsters Hugo Ralphsmith and Thomson Dow would retain their spots.
