Dimma on the game this week.....The Tigers host Adelaide at the MCG on Sunday.
“They’re a very well-structured side, they play a disciplined brand of footy and it will be a really good test for our guys come Sunday,” the coach said.
“The main thing we’re looking forward to is challenging ourselves against another side who, at the bottom end of the ladder, is a very good side and could quite possibly play finals footy. It will be a great test for our guys.”
Heavy losses to North Melbourne and Collingwood in the past fortnight have burst Richmond’s bubble somewhat, but Hardwick felt some correctable errors from his young side had contributed to both losses.
Those defeats extinguished Richmond’s faint finals chances, but Hardwick will be looking at his team very closely in the remaining weeks of the season.
“We think it would be disappointing if we went back into our shells and played the way we did at the start of the year so that’s been a real driving force of ours,” he said.
“We’ve had our form ladder from round nine onwards and I think we’re on an even ledger at the moment so we just really want to keep our heads above water on that.
“It’s a real character builder for them to see how they finish off the year. We’ll keep putting our processes in place and hopefully get the desired results over the next four or five weeks.”
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