{"id":688515,"date":"2026-05-23T01:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688515\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T01:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:41:11","slug":"afl-2026-richmond-tigers-defeat-essendon-bombers-adem-yze-press-conference-tom-lynch-injury-video-highlights-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688515\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL 2026: Richmond Tigers defeat Essendon Bombers, Adem Yze press conference, Tom Lynch injury, video, highlights, news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richmond coach Adem Yze says he thought star forward Tom Lynch would be heading to hospital at half time, only to find the big man returning to play out the Dreamtime game to help secure his team a gutsy three-goal win.<\/p>\n<p>Lynch \u201churt his throat\u201d but held back a visit to the hospital until after the game as the 33-year-old went on to kick a fourth-quarter goal and <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=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">lead his side home over Essendon at the MCG<\/a>.<\/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><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>\u201cI\u2019ll tell you what he is. He\u2019s a tough bugger and he\u2019s a leader of our footy club for a reason,\u201d Yze said on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt halftime, we thought he was going to hospital. (But) at halftime, he didn\u2019t want to. He wanted to play for Shorty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe couldn\u2019t talk, he\u2019s hurt his throat, so we don\u2019t know how bad that is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was obviously okay that he could (return), and there was no risk with hurting it anymore. And it was just around his voice.\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 LAST after Richmond upset | 02:08<\/p>\n<p>Lynch had difficulties talking but was able to continue playing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s funny, he\u2019s the godfather of our forward line, and we need him to talk and lead, so we put it on our younger forwards to obviously shoulder that load because he wasn\u2019t able to do that for the rest of the game, but his contest and aerial power tonight was exactly what we needed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe got through the game, and now he\u2019s just gone to hospital for scans and precautions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReally proud of his effort, and Shorty would be too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tigers young gun Jonty Faull was also injured in the encounter, coming from the field in the second term and being ruled out with concussion after copping a head knock in a contest with Essendon\u2019s Mason Redman.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers turn their attention to Sydney, whom they take on next Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richmond coach Adem Yze says he thought star forward Tom Lynch would be heading to hospital at half&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-688515","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\/688515","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=688515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}