on the way to a comfortable 42-point win.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cEspecially when we\u2019re going through what we\u2019re going through, we\u2019ve obviously got a few players out and got some young players out there,\u201d a disappointed Yze said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t defend behind undisciplined acts. So I\u2019ll cop it if it\u2019s an execution error and we\u2019re just not as good as them, but when it\u2019s something like that, they can just crush your spirit.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was probably a silly thing to do \u2013 well it was.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maurice Rioli soars with STELLAR mark! | 00:29<\/p>\n
Ryan apologised to his teammates for the incident after the game, and he might have more apologising to do given the league\u2019s crackdown on such actions will put him in serious danger of copping a suspension.<\/p>\n
And with No.1 ruck Toby Nankervis already sidelined with a significant hamstring injury, a ban for Ryan would exacerbate things for the injury-hit Tigers.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo doubt when we\u2019re going through what we\u2019re going through, when you\u2019ve got fit players – if they do become unavailable, that\u2019s frustrating,\u201d Yze said.<\/p>\n
Yze admitted his team should\u2019ve been further behind in the first quarter, but were saved by Port Adelaide\u2019s inaccuracy (1.6) and he commended Richmond\u2019s ability to kick the last three goals of the first half after giving up the first five.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat middle part of the game, the effort and intent was right, we just lacked that polish and the execution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou want to access the corridor when you can and we were making some ordinary decisions on when to go through there or when to take high risks.\u201d<\/p>\n
‘We’ve seen players try to milk this’ | 00:53<\/p>\n
The Tigers are now 0-4 for the first time since 2010 and are riding a nine-game losing streak. All up, they\u2019ve lost 44 of their past 51 outings, but Yze wasn\u2019t worried that the lack of wins was impacting his players\u2019 spirit.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I felt there was an issue with that, I feel like we would\u2019ve turned our toes up after quarter-time and it would\u2019ve been all too hard,\u201d Yze said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I don\u2019t sense that and the numbers show that … we win a lot of the key indicators that you want to win in a game.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going through a little bit right now, and there\u2019s a little bit of pain, but I feel like the silver lining for these young boys is getting opportunity.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe guys that are out \u2013 when they come back in, we\u2019ll be really competitive against anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Richmond had 12 players on their official injury list heading into the Port Adelaide game, including Nankervis, Tom Lynch and Noah Balta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richmond coach Adem Yze has labelled ruckman Samson Ryan\u2019s needless off-the-ball free kick on Saturday evening as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,689,55,639,286298,286297,81102,4517,19125,24778,286296,44187,211493,677,286294,286295,6082,672,1819,286293,286291,24571,286290,1124,286292,85,12120,286299,19121],"class_list":{"0":"post-584796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","12":"tag-australian-football-league","13":"tag-australianfootballleague","14":"tag-crucial-off-the-ball","15":"tag-execution-error","16":"tag-gut-punch","17":"tag-hamstring-injury","18":"tag-jay-clark","19":"tag-maurice-rioli","20":"tag-momentum-heading","21":"tag-nine-game-losing-streak","22":"tag-numbers-show","23":"tag-oceania","24":"tag-ordinary-decisions","25":"tag-players-try","26":"tag-port-adelaide","27":"tag-richmond-tigers","28":"tag-ronny-lerner","29":"tag-screeching-halt-courtesy","30":"tag-selection-carnage","31":"tag-silver-lining","32":"tag-sling-tackle","33":"tag-south-australia","34":"tag-spirit-crusher","35":"tag-sports","36":"tag-tom-lynch","37":"tag-willem-dew","38":"tag-young-players"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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