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The pain of the Tigers' lost preliminary final to Collingwood last month hasn't abated for coach Damien Hardwick, who again lamented the "un-Richmond like performance".
"The pain of the defeat is still very raw," Hardwick said in his speech at the function at Crown Palladium.
"Waves of emotion go over me from day to day.
"It was incredibly hard to watch the Magpies and Eagles play out for the 2018 premiership last Saturday.
"That however is the tough and uncompromising nature of AFL footy and that's what we're here for.
"What happened unfortunately throughout the previous five months has no bearing on the final game that you play in September.
"There's no doubt it was a missed opportunity for us."
However, Hardwick said he believed the closeness and "connection" of the playing group – and across the club – would drive them back to premiership contender status in 2019.
The Tigers have already confirmed changes are afoot at Punt Road with assistant coach Ben Rutten leaving for Essendon and Adam Kingsley to arrive from St Kilda.
They'll also have Tom Lynch in their forward line after the Gold Coast free agent officially declared his intention to join Richmond earlier on Tuesday.
Captain Trent Cotchin said being "adaptive to change" would help the Tigers recover from their 2018 heartbreak.
"Last year, Richmond changed the game both off-field and on with our extraordinary connection and manic pressure style of game," Cotchin said.
"But the species evolves and the game changes, and so too must we be adaptive to change.
"This year's finals series taught us that.
"We often say among the playing and coaching group that if we're not growing, we're dying.
"So, moving forward, we must continue to grow.
"I saw a quote recently that read, 'We win or we learn'; I'm throwing out that challenge in 2019, we do both.
"We'll learn from 2018 in the same way we learned from 2016 and whatever happens in 2019, we'll continue to celebrate, to appreciate and to grow."
Source: AFL website
