ROUND 6 - RICHMOND defeated HAWTHORN - Telstra Dome/Docklands (HOME) 1.5.04 RICHMOND 7.1 10.7 11.11 12.12 (84) HAWTHORN 3.3 7.5 11.5 13.5 (83) GOALS - Richmond: Hilton 3 Brown 2 Tivendale 2 Chaffey Fiora Hyde Johnson Ottens. Hawthorn: Williams 5 Everitt 2 Ball Brown Holland Lekkas Lonie Ries. BEST - Richmond: Tivendale Ottens Campbell Johnson Brown Fleming Hyde. Hawthorn: Crawford Williams Everitt Ries Vandenberg Mitchell. UMPIRES: Vozzo Woodcock Nicholls. ATTENDANCE: 37,947 Just under 38,000 made their way to Docklands to see the Tiges scrape home by the barest of margins over fellow cellar-dwellers Hawthorn and arrest a run of four consecutive losses with a badly needed win. After a week of over-the-top scrutiny of Richmond and particularly coach Danny Frawley in the media, the spotlight will now surely and thankfully shine away from us for the meantime and onto the Hawks. Richmond began the match with a relatively smallish forward line with only Schulz as the only tall target surrounded by the likes of Brown, Hilton and Krakouer. Otto was in the ruck against Everitt in a duel that would last the whole night and Andy Kellaway and Hall took up the key defensive posts with Gas starting on the bench. The Tiges got off to a flyer as their intensity at getting first to the contest and movement of the footy forward was excellent and far superior to their opponents. Cambo and Tivs were giving us plenty of drive off half-back and the whole side was running hard all over the ground to receive the ball via handball or lead and keep it moving through the centre corridor. This enabled us to slam on the first five goals of the match through the good work up forward from Hilton and Brown (the latter giving Hawk captain a absolute bath at this stage). After the first 15 minutes the game evened up ever so slightly and Richmond went into the break with handy 22 pount lead. The second quarter carried on in pretty much the same vein except the Tiges were now beginning to miss some relatively straightforward shots on goal by AFL standards allowing Hawthorn to stay within breathing distance. The Hawks had lifted nearing half-time and with the last couple of goals were only 20 points down at the main change when the Tiges should have been well and truly ahead by a large margin. Richmond really needed to make the most of their forward forays in the second half otherwise they risked throwing the game away due to poor goalkicking. Unfortunately the match headed in the latter's direction. Once again the Tigers had more scoring scoring shots for the quarter but could only manage 1.4 while the Hawks kicked four straight (and by now many of the Hawk's goals were coming directly after we scored a behind as our zone continually broke down) to only trail by a goal going into the last quarter. The third quarter could be summed up by Tiger Jay Schulz - took Mark of the Year on the wing then a few minutes later missed a sitter from inside the goalsquare. It was now a matter of the Tigers hanging on as the game had evened up all over the park. Both sides were showing clear signs of tiredness as a game was now marred by numerous turnovers and the run to receive aspect of the Tiges play earler in the match had dried up. As a result scoring by both sides dried up until Tivas booted a goal on the run to give Richmond a slight buffer of 12 points. The Hawks responded and when Lekkas kicked a sliding soccer goal the scores were level. Fleming then kicked a mongruel punt for a point to put the Tigers back in front by that margin. With less than a minute to go the Hawks had a chance to pinch the game when Vandenberg was given a free 45 metres out. Fortunately for Richmond his shot failed to make the distance and Ray 'Razor' Hall took the mark on the goalline to save the day. Shortly afterwards the final siren sounded to the relief of all and sundry at Tigerland. < BACK >