On Ch 7, they asked Leigh Matthews about why Richmond is struggling and Lethal put it down to what he called "Negative momentum". The loss to Collingwood has caused a significant loss of confidence. It's one thing to have external noises criticising and doubting you, but when you start losing faith in yourself, what you're doing, and in each other, then it builds its own negative momentum. It will eventually turn around but it's going to be a few tough weeks for the Tigers until it does.
Nick Maxwell said it's a horrible feeling and the only way out of it is controlling what you can control. You can't control outside forces but you can control working harder on the training track, working harder during games, and working harder as a team to turn things around.
