{"id":688280,"date":"2026-05-22T23:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688280\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T23:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:02:11","slug":"afl-results-2026-richmond-tigers-defeat-essendon-bombers-brad-scott-press-conference-video-highlights-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688280\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL results 2026: Richmond Tigers defeat Essendon Bombers, Brad Scott press conference, video, highlights, news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essendon coach Brad Scott says it is \u201chard\u201d to separate his side\u2019s performance from the injury carnage that went down in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/afl\/old-rivals-collide-as-tigers-bombers-meet-in-dreamtime-war-of-attrition-afl-live\/news-story\/9edd1fd50f035f161fba01b02d53bc47\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">a three-goal loss to Richmond on Friday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Bombers had captain Andy McGrath hospitalised with a broken jaw and Archie May with a rib concern, while Matt Guelfi suffered a hamstring strain, midfielder Jye Caldwell a \u201csyndesmosis mechanism\u201d and Sam Durham a concussion.<\/p>\n<p>It was a horror loss of players in a game the Dons so desperately needed to win.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779017096_680_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Watch every match of every round of the AFL Premiership Season LIVE and ad-break free during play on FOX FOOTY, available on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/en-AU\/welcome\/afl?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkafl-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-afl-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1 &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bombers were down to two on the bench before halftime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s probably hard to separate the performance from the circumstances,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut in terms of the game, we were on the hop the whole time, given that right from the start, we had to shuffle the deck chairs a fair bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest AFL news, highlights and analysis delivered straight to your inbox with Fox Sports Sportmail. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/newsletter-sign-up?utm_source=AFLArticle&amp;utm_medium=TextLink&amp;utm_campaign=signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sign up now &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Essendon bombarded with injuries | 01:45<\/p>\n<p>Scott was pleased with his side\u2019s fight considering the circumstances, as the Dons cut the margin to seven points early in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, it\u2019s obviously extremely disappointing not to get it done, but there are always things that you think, okay, there\u2019s positives, but it\u2019s hard to talk about positives at the moment for us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Essendon LAST after Richmond upset | 02:08<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in a situation that we don\u2019t want to be in, and we\u2019ve got to keep fighting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought, overall, and I know at the end of the day, no one cares, but given the circumstances, the players fought to the end and gave themselves a chance to win and fell just short.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bombers fall to bottom position following the loss as they hold a 1-10 record in one of their worst starts to a season.<\/p>\n<p>With games against lower-placed West Coast and Carlton to come, they face a big few weeks to avoid further pain in their campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You feel for Brad and Essendon&#8217; | 10:40<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essendon coach Brad Scott says it is \u201chard\u201d to separate his side\u2019s performance from the injury carnage that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-688280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688280","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=688280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}