Hardwick's post-match media conference / Left to lament missed opportunities

[one-eyed]

Dimma just had his post-match presser:

* Torrid game of footy. Did some things well and didn't do somethings well. Could have won it at the end but we didn't.

* Had enough scoring opportunities; had 64 inside 50s; the game was predominantly played in our forward half. Didn't get the job done.

* They defended well but we should have created better goal scoring chances with all our inside 50s.

* Castagna - he'll be distraught with his 0-5 but apart from that Dimma was happy with his game a far as winning the ball. Happy Georgie continually lined up for the shot [I'm presuming Dimma here means George took the shot rather than trying to pass responsiblity]. He'll go away and work on it.

* The Ladder is not a true reflection on where GWS are now at as a team. Their past month has been excellent.

* Hard to win interstate. We've played good sides interstate. We win at our home game at the 'G. Interstate sides win their home games more often than not.

* Can't comment on the umpires. But we'll do some ducking practice at training (laughs). The game is very hard to umpire. Tonight;s game wasn't dominated by the umpiring. It was a pretty good game.

* We were a bit fumbly tonight but the surface was pretty good [so not to blame].

[Francois Jackson]

All good and well but we wouldn’t want to not finish in the top 2

[one-eyed]

Richmond coach Damien Hardwick was left to lament his side's missed opportunities.

"It was a pretty torrid affair, it was a good, tough game of footy," he said post-match.

"We did some things really well and there were some things we didn’t do so well tonight.

"I thought what tended to happen was after their initial onslaught, at certain stages we controlled the game, but we just couldn’t get the scoreboard ascendency we were after.

"There’s some missed shots on goal, some goals we left on the table and we couldn’t seem to capitalise on our dominant patches as they did."

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-07-14/match-report-greater-western-sydney-v-richmond

The Tigers will be ruing multiple missed opportunities, kicking 10.17 (four of which were rushed).

Young forwards Jason Castagna and Shai Bolton had opportunities to pinch the lead in the dying minutes of the match, but Castagna kicked a behind and Bolton's shot sprayed wide and out of bounds on the full.

It was a disappointing night for Castagna, who struggled without teammate Dan Butler (who is on the sidelines with an injured ankle). He had quite a few opportunities but finished with 14 disposals and five behinds.

"We spoke to [Castagna] at the end of the game, he'll probably be a little bit distraught about his zero (goals) five (behinds), but he gave himself ample opportunities to play the game.

"That's what we want him to do. He'll go back to the drawing board, work on his process and he'll get a result next week. The pleasing thing for me is he kept lining up to take those shots on goal, he had a good game tonight. The finishing wasn't there, but it'll be there next week.

Richmond had 64 inside 50s and 27 scoring shots for a final score of just 77, and Hardwick was disappointed his side was not able to convert.

"They (GWS) defend really heavily, they get a lot of numbers behind the ball and then try to slingshot out.

"So you're always trying to go up against a large amount of players there, but you would have thought with the amount of ball we had in there, we'd be able to generate some better shots on goal, but that wasn't the case tonight."

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-07-14/umpiring-puts-ducking-practice-on-dimmas-agenda