{"id":857770,"date":"2026-08-16T22:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T22:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/857770\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T22:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T22:40:12","slug":"afl-news-2026-richmond-loss-vs-st-kilda-reaction-dion-prestia-and-nathan-broad-retirement-rory-sloane-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/857770\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL News 2026: Richmond loss vs St Kilda reaction, Dion Prestia and Nathan Broad retirement, Rory Sloane comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richmond\u2019s<\/a> horror season was epitomised on Saturday during their 49-point loss to St Kilda<\/a>, in a game where the club farewelled two premiership heroes.<\/p>\n

Dion Prestia and Nathan Broad played their final games for the Tigers, but weren\u2019t given a happy ending in a defeat coach Adem Yze described as \u201cembarrassing\u201d<\/a> as his side only managed to score 45 points for the match. <\/p>\n

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Adem Yze\u2019s Tigers are in a world of hurt in their rebuild.\u00a0AFL Photos<\/p>\n

Richmond sit 17th on the ladder with three wins and the worst percentage in the league and will now finish with fewer wins than the five they had last season.<\/p>\n

Nine journalist Damian Barrett believes the Tigers have hidden behind the youth and inexperience of the side all season and not accepted their issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think (coach Adem Yze) and the CEO (Shane Dunne) have been quite delusional as to how this season has unfolded. Three wins and 19 losses. Yze wasn\u2019t mucking around post match,\u201d Barrett told Nine\u2019s Sunday Footy Show.<\/p>\n

As Barrett mentioned, Yze was more scathing than usual post match given the failure to adequately see off two club greats.<\/p>\n

\u201cReally disappointed with our performance. We got out-worked, out-played, we got smashed in a lot of the areas we\u2019ve been strong in like contested possession and inside 50s and time in forward half over the last few weeks,\u201d Yze said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn a really important day, it was embarrassing. Our players if they felt like they haven\u2019t played well today and haven\u2019t performed at level that would\u2019ve made Broady and Dion proud, we\u2019ve got to be really honest and live with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adelaide champion Rory Sloane<\/a> agreed with the coach\u2019s tough assessment of his players\u2019 performances.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve had terrific careers and been great performers for Richmond and they would have been disappointed in the end that they couldn\u2019t put up a better performance and a more ruthless performance for those guys,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Richmond will complete their 2026 season next week against Geelong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richmond\u2019s horror season was epitomised on Saturday during their 49-point loss to St Kilda, in a game where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-857770","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\/857770","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=857770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}