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Tenacious Tigers end Hawks’ eight-game run

Callum Twomey 
afl.com.au
July 31, 2015 10:19 PM

HAWTHORN    0.3    5.6    5.8    7.11 (53)
RICHMOND     3.4    5.4    8.8    10.11 (71)

GOALS
Hawthorn: Gunston 3, Puopolo 2, Schoenmakers, Rioli
Richmond: Deledio 4, Riewoldt, McIntosh, Vickery, Houli, Lambert, Lloyd

BEST
Hawthorn: Lewis, Mitchell, Birchall, Hodge, Burgoyne
Richmond: Miles, Deledio, Martin, Maric, Ellis, Cotchin

INJURIES
Hawthorn: Nil
Richmond: Nil

SUBSTITUTES
Hawthorn: David Hale replaced by Billy Hartung in the third quarter
Richmond: Ben Lennon replaced by Sam Lloyd in the fourth quarter

Reports: James Frawley (Haw) for rough conduct against Jack Riewoldt (Rich) in the second quarter.

Umpires: Dalgleish, Stevic, Chamberlain

Official crowd: 66,305 at the MCG

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IT WAS a big stage, a big game and a performance befitting a "big-boy" team.

If July was the month that separated the competition's contenders and pretenders, as Tigers coach Damien Hardwick declared three weeks ago, then its final hours saw a new premiership hope emerge.

Richmond's surprising yet methodical 18-point win over Hawthorn on Friday night at the MCG was significant in a number of ways, and not least because it came after the Hawks had challenged the Tigers several times throughout the contest.

The Tigers' win made amends for their last-gasp loss to Fremantle last week, saw them move into the top four on the ladder, and snapped the Hawks' dominant eight-game winning streak.

The three most recent of those Hawthorn wins had come at an average of nearly 100 points, sparking discussion they would not lose another game en route to a third consecutive premiership.

But Richmond's 10.11 (71) to 7.11 (53) win put that talk to a halt, and it was no stroke of luck.

It was built on astute tactics to shut down the Hawks' possession game, a desire to attack with run and dare when they had the ball, and a limiting of their normal goalkicking power – they averaged 116 points a game before the defeat.

Hawthorn’s final score was its lowest since it kicked 5.16 (46) in a five-point loss to West Coast in round four, 2012.

Before round 15, Hardwick put the onus on his team to make a statement in July. "It's big-boy month, so it's time to come and play," he said. The Tigers delivered with three wins out of four since then, and there should be no doubt about their place near the top of the ladder after adding Hawthorn's name to an already impressive list of scalps.

Brett Deledio's influence was huge, with the classy user kicking four vital goals from 19 disposals, while Dustin Martin (26 disposals), Trent Cotchin (24) and Brandon Ellis (27) were also important.

Anthony Miles' dogged efforts in gathering 30 disposals (plus seven clearances) helped the Tigers gain ascendancy, and Ivan Maric dominated in the ruck. In defence, Alex Rance was sublime and Bachar Houli bounced back from his game-changing error last week to perform well.

Hardwick was understandably pleased with the intent of his side.

"The way they went about the contest tonight – the way they hunted the opposition, I thought was as good as I'd seen it," he said.

Champion Hawthorn midfield trio Sam Mitchell, Luke Hodge and Jordan Lewis had plenty of the ball but did not impact the game to their usual extent, with forward Jack Gunston (three goals) offering a lone hand in attack.

Compounding their defeat, Hawks defender James Frawley was reported for rough conduct for a dangerous second-quarter tackle on Jack Riewoldt.

In his 250th game as Hawthorn’s coach, Alastair Clarkson agreed his team had been 'outhunted' by the Tigers.

"We've been up for a fair amount of time and our boys have been terrific, but our footy club and the whole footy world perhaps gets a bit of a wake-up call tonight," he said.

Richmond's intent was clear before the first bounce, with Cotchin initiating some physical argy-bargy with Hodge and Mitchell. It set the tone for a brilliant term for the Tigers, who jumped to a 19-point lead by the first change thanks to three goals from Deledio.

Their tight, precise and smart ball use kept it out of the Hawks' hands (Richmond had 51 of the first 64 touches of the night), and the tactics limited the premiership favourites to only their second goalless quarter of the year.

The Tigers' philosophy of moving the ball quick continued to pay dividends. When Josh Gibson tracked a loose ball in defence, Reece Conca roared into the contest to tackle him and shut him down. When the ball was up for grabs in the backline, Rance leapt at it, bolted off, kicked long and started a chain of disposals that ended in a Riewoldt goal.

That put the Tigers 25 points up early in the second term, but it jolted the Hawks into action. They shut down the Tigers' run, controlled the ball in their forward half, and made the most of their opportunities.

Twenty-five minutes and five goals later, the back-to-back reigning premiers led by two points at the main change. But another goalless term by the Hawks, and an energised Tigers outfit, saw the momentum swing in the third quarter, with the Tigers holding an 18-point margin at the last break. 

The Tigers saw off a Hawks challenge in the final term and held on for their third win over Hawthorn in their past four games.

Hardwick said July was when the big boys come out to play. On that measure, his team has arrived. 

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-07-31/tenacious-tigers-end-hawks-eightgame-run#sthash.q83xifNB.dpuf

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Five talking points: Hawthorn v Richmond

Ben Guthrie 
afl.com.au
July 31, 2015 10:53 PM


1. Richmond is the real deal
This was the victory Richmond needed after coming desperately close to knocking off ladder-leaders Fremantle last weekend. After shaking off a desperate Hawthorn challenge late in the match, the Tigers won their 11th game of the season and took their biggest scalp in a number of years. It was the manner in which Richmond won that was the most impressive element. Richmond had a clear strategy to deny the Hawks access to the ball for long periods of the game, and the game plan was executed superbly. Led by Anthony Miles and the Tigers' game-breaker Brett Deledio, Richmond outhunted, outsmarted and thoroughly outplayed the flag fancy to stamp itself as a legitimate premiership contender.

2. Hawthorn is fallible
After chalking up eight consecutive wins, including emphatic victories over Fremantle, the Sydney Swans and Carlton in the past three weeks by an average of 100 points, Hawthorn looked like marching towards its third straight premiership. But the Tigers did not buckle under the weight of the challenge and took it right up to the Hawks to record a well-deserved victory. The Tigers locked down on speedster Bradley Hill and their defensive work on Jarryd Roughead and Jack Gunston was first-rate, led by Alex Rance. But what it all boiled down to was Richmond's pressure around the ball and ability to win one-on-one battles. Being first to the football and then nailing your opportunities in front of goal is how you beat any great side.

3. Tigers put the clamps on
For the first time this season, Hawthorn was held goalless in the opening term. The Hawks had won 11 first quarters for the year before they were thoroughly outplayed in Friday night's clash against the Tigers. It was also Hawthorn's lowest quarter-time score since round 22, 2011 when it managed one behind in a game against the Sydney Swans. Richmond kicked 3.4, with all three majors coming off Brett Deledio's boot, to Hawthorn's three behinds, and the dominance stemmed from the Tigers' ability to control the footy. They had 38 uncontested marks to the Hawks' 12, primarily employing slow and patient ball movement. The Tigers then held Hawthorn goalless for a second time in the third quarter.

4. Frawley's rough night
Playing his first AFL game since dislocating his shoulder against Essendon in round 13, James Frawley had a dirty night. First he was reported for rough conduct on Richmond spearhead Jack Riewoldt in the second quarter, and was then forced to sit out 20 minutes after being assessed for concussion. On review of the replay, Frawley does not look like he has much to worry about for what the umpire paid as a sling tackle. In fact, it appeared Frawley even tried to hold Riewoldt up in the tackle. Given his relative lack of football in recent weeks, Frawley looked shaky in defence and did not use the ball at all well when coming out of the backline.

5. Bittersweet milestone for Clarko
Alastair Clarkson will quite rightly go down in history as one of Hawthorn's greatest ever coaches. The Hawks' talisman has led the club to three premiership victories (2008, 2013 and 2014) and a Grand Final in 2012. His coaching successes have been well highlighted, but on Friday night Clarkson became just the second Hawk to coach the club to 250 games. John Kennedy snr. is the longest-serving coach at Hawthorn, with 299 games in charge from 1960-63 and again from 1967-1976. It was not a happy ending for Clarkson against the Tigers, but it is an achievement worth celebrating.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-07-31/five-talking-points-hawthorn-v-richmond#sthash.uyXxGrel.dpuf

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De-lids off at Tigerland after Hawks win

Bruce Matthews
Herald-Sun
July 31, 2015 11:39PM


SPEED kills in football too. Mix it with sustained intensity and Richmond found the formula to control Hawthorn.

The committed Tigers stunned the seemingly invincible AFL premier with confronting pressure from the opening bounce at the MCG.

It delivered an 18 points triumph that will be picked apart by every top eight contender over the weekend.

The Tigers sensed the Hawks’ vulnerability from the start and harassed them for every possession and refused to give it up when they had the ball.

Hawthorn didn’t score a goal at the city end for the entire night as the disjointed forward set-up was contained by Richmond’s defence so ably led by Alex Rance.

Any doubts that this Richmond unit are the real deal were dispelled with the almost fanatical commitment to coach Damien Hardwick’s bold run-and-spread plan.

So often, the Hawks merely booted the ball high in hope into the forward 50 where only Jack Gunston and occasionally the opportunist Cyril Rioli posed a threat.

To compound the massive wake-up call, Hawk key defenders Brian Lake and returning James Frawley were reported for unusual rough conduct offences.

This was so uncharacteristic Hawthorn - fumbles by normally clean ball handlers like Rioli and Bradley Hill, miskicks from the ever-reliable Grant Birchall out of defence and Shaun Burgoyne seemingly unaware he was about to be run down from behind.

It was another howler from Josh Gibson from deep in defence that was intercepted by the Tigers and allowed Kane Lambert to stroll into an open goal to stretch the lead to 18 points heading into the final term.

Lake was booked by the non-controlling field umpire when he pushed Ty Vickery into the fence after a contest close to the boundary line in the third quarter.

It proved a telling free kick as Vickery ran around to curl a crucial goal that kick-started Richmond’s momentum early in the second half.

Frawley endured a horror return after a month out with the dislocated shoulder to be in a world of hurt again.

He coughed up the first goal of the game after being caught in a Brett Deledio tackle and then was put on report for what seemed a legitimate tackle on Jack Riewoldt early in the second quarter.

And he was on the bench at the half-time siren for the mandatory concussion test when felled by an accidental knee to the back of the head in a marking contest late in the term.

Frawley and his fellow defenders had to work overtime in the first half in the face of Richmond’s high-tempo game plan based on intense pressure and spread to use the MCG’s wide flanks.

The Tigers caught the normally composed Hawks by surprise by denying the premier the ball in a stunning and sustained performance.

When Riewoldt missed with a set shot after five minutes for the opening score, Richmond led the disposal count by a staggering 43-10. Another indicator of the Hawks’ jitters was captain Luke Hodge’s clearing kick being spoiled to set up the second of Deledio’s three goals in the first quarter.

Hawthorn was goalless at quarter-time for the first time this season. And the rare humiliation was always going to sting such a proud group.

Even when Riewoldt goalled to stretch the Tigers’ lead to 25 points early in the second quarter, the Hawks showed signs of getting better organised, particularly in the midfield and down back.

It took Hawthorn seven minutes into the second quarter to post the first goal from a hurried shot from Ryan Schoenmakers that bounced across the line.

Two more from Jack Gunston set shots and contributions from Paul Puopolo and Rioli gave the revived Hawks four of the last five goals before the long break to set up an intriguing second half contest. Whether Richmond could sustain their tempo against the inevitable challenge was answered in emphatic style.

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HAWTHORN 0.3 5.6 5.8 7.11 (53)

RICHMOND 3.4 5.4 8.8 10.11 (71)

GOALS

Hawthorn: Gunston 3, Puopolo 2, Schoenmakers, Rioli

Richmond: Deledio 4, Riewoldt, McIntosh, Vickery, Houli, Lambert, Lloyd

BEST

Richmond: Miles, Rance, Deledio, Cotchin, Maric, Martin, Ellis, Houli.

Hawthorn: Lewis, Mitchell, Gunston, Burgoyne, Hodge, Smith

INJURIES

Hawthorn: Nil

Richmond: Nil

SUBSTITUTES

Hawthorn: David Hale replaced by Billy Hartung in the third quarter

Richmond: Ben Lennon replaced by Sam Lloyd in the fourth quarter

Reports: James Frawley (Haw) for rough conduct against Jack Riewoldt (Rich) in the second quarter.

Umpires: Dalgleish, Stevic, Chamberlain

Official crowd: 66,305 at the MCG

http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/afl-season-richmond-defeats-hawthorn-by-18-points-at-mcg-in-round-18/story-fnelctok-1227465218158

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Richmond Tigers genuine contenders after win over Hawthorn

  Michael Gleeson
     The Age
    July 31, 2015 - 10:53PM

RICHMOND   3.4   5.4   8.8   10.11 (71)
HAWTHORN  0.3   5.6   5.8   7.11 (53)

GOALS:
Richmond: B Deledio 4, B Houli, J Riewoldt, K Lambert, K McIntosh, S Lloyd, T Vickery.
Hawthorn: J Gunston 3, P Puopolo 2, C Rioli, R Schoenmakers.

BEST:
Richmond: Deledio, Miles, Martin, Rance, Chaplin, Grigg, B Ellis.
Hawthorn: Lewis, Hodge, Burgoyne, Mitchell, Gunston, Smith, Rioli.

Umpires: Matt Stevic, Jeff Dalgleish, Ray Chamberlain.
Official Crowd: 66,305 at MCG.

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There has been an accepted wisdom of how to beat Hawthorn. It's not that sophisticated, it's just incredibly hard to do, but Richmond know how to do it.

The Tigers did it on Friday night in front of 66,305 at the MCG. They took Hawthorn's game to them and at once also took it away from them. They showed the Hawks a side of their own game and they showed them they have a maturity to stick to a plan and beat them. They hunted the Hawks, they pressured them and closed them up.

Richmond had the appetite to play a game that could win; they had the discipline to stick to it and they had the class to execute it.

Richmond can no longer be denied. They have now beaten Fremantle and Sydney away from home and Hawthorn at the MCG. Only West Coast of the sides above them have bettered them.

This was as effective as the Tigers have looked and as lost as Hawthorn have looked for some time. They were never beaten out of the game but aside from the second quarter never appeared convinced they would win.

It was a game the game needed after the week that was. Booing returned to the MCG but it was something more familiar and more palatable … Ray Chamberlain was umpiring after all.

The Tigers began playing the patient, deliberate and careful plan they had successfully applied against Fremantle in Perth where they trusted themselves to play keepings off.

In years past, Richmond tried this but weren't skilful enough to do it so they could not sustain ownership of the ball long enough. On Friday night they could.

In the first term they kept the ball out of Hawthorn's hands – 38 uncontested marks to 12 and double the kicks, 72 to 36, illustrated the case – but while they had the ball they didn't have a way forward. Their game was to pull numbers up at the Hawk, but when they went slowly forward they lacked an easy, clear target.

All three Tiger goals of the first quarter were to Brett Deledio and all three were pressure created moments. The first came when Deledio ran down a slow moving Frawley, then he smothered a Luke Hodge kick and finally a ball fell to him when Brian Lake and Ty Vickery collapsed a pack underneath them. They were all good moments seized, but they were not goals of construction or design.

The Tigers might have had a greater quarter-time lead but a ball speared hopefully from 60 metres to an empty forward line by Chris Newman stopped unhelpfully on the goal line. In the footrace to be first to poke it over, the collision favoured the rushed behind.

The Tigers were looking strong because Alex Rance and Troy Chaplin were the creative acts behind the ball, Jack Riewoldt was too clever for James Frawley and Dustin Martin was winning in the middle.

Hawthorn reappeared after the break with the look of a team saying "oh OK, now we know what you are doing, you are playing that keepings off thing we do, very clever." Mimicry is supposed to be the best form of flattery, which I don't know if it is, but someone said it and it sort of works here.

Hawthorn improved their pressure around the ball – 23 tackles to eight – and went hunting Tigers. They drew the error from Richmond and won the ball into their forward 50. Where they did not kick a goal for the first term, suddenly they kicked five.

At first they goaled, like Richmond had, through taken half opportunities, but then they started to construct them. They hit the lead, Richmond took it back then they took it back again.

If there was a sense of Hawthorn having absorbed Richmond's parry and retaliated in the first half, of having felt out each other's games and the Hawks finding their way to counter then it was a short-lived.

Richmond is a more mature side this year. They recovered their lost second-quarter composure and began building once more.

They improved their work around the ball and re-established their defensive approach behind the ball to the Hawks looked unthreatening going forward. They did not goal in the third term and really with two rushed behinds they did not look likely to.

Deledio booted the first goal of the last but when the Hawks booted the next two there was a query creeping in about a comeback. Sam Lloyd was subbed in and with his first kick snapped a goal that ended the Hawks' run. Cyril Rioli was ever threatening but his two set shots in the last both missed.

The Tigers are in the top four at least – until other games in the round are played. But on Friday's showing it is a place they deserve to be.

Votes:

8 - Brett Deledio

7 - Jordan Lewis

7 - Anthony Miles

7 - Dustin Martin

6 - Alex Rance

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-match-report/richmond-tigers-genuine-contenders-after-win-over-hawthorn-20150731-gip571.html#ixzz3hUacdb2F

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Ferocious Tigers blunt Hawks

Hawthorn had no answers for Richmond’s defensive pressure

Sam Edmund
Herald-Sun
July 31, 2015 10:49PM

THIS just doesn’t happen to Hawthorn.

The ballistic-scoring, freewheeling, possession-hungry premier had the shine stripped from it in stunning fashion.

An enormously impressive Richmond will deservedly hog the post-mortem, but the manner in which the Hawks ground to a halt was just as staggering.

The side with the biggest attacking weaponry in footy was made to look like they had water pistols.

The unit that had won eight straight games and humiliated supposed challengers Sydney and Fremantle, was made to look like a mid-table battler.

The Hawthorn legend had grown to ridiculous levels. This is the same outfit that has won the last two flags and already been paid out by one bookie for a third. The same one that no-one said could be beaten.

The Hawks’ attack and keep-ball movement has revolutionised our game. It was pulled apart by Richmond in stunning fashion.

Hawthorn’s 7.11 (53) was its lowest score since Round 4, 2012 — held goalless in the first term for the first time in nearly three years. The Hawks, remember, were averaging 116 points per game. In the last three it was 145.

Al Clarkson’s men also average 59 inside 50s per game. Last night they had 43 in the face of frenzied Tiger pressure. The Hawks’ easy out from congestion was shut down almost every time as Richmond worked feverishly to close the exit routes.

Hawthorn’s fluidity was muzzled. The competition leaders for uncontested marks lost this stat 56-98 — an incredible discrepancy.

It just doesn’t happen.

When the Hawks did get the ball in there, their all-conquering forward line was dysfunctional. Zero presence in the air and scrapping for everything on the deck, they didn’t get a cheap goal all night.

This was a loss that will encourage the rest of the competition. The premiership race is well and truly open, particularly given the Hawks will now most likely have to travel to Perth in the first week of finals.

Richmond came in with a plan and executed to perfection. The Tigers got under Hawthorn’s skin in the first quarter and then refused to wilt in the next three.

So striking was Hawthorn’s defeat it was hard to think of a standout player.

Shaun Burgoyne was run down from behind. That doesn’t happen.

Grant Birchall kicked straight to an opponent under no pressure. That doesn’t happen.

Luke Hodge hesitated and put kicks out on the full. That doesn’t happen.

Luke Breust, the Hawks’ leading goalkicker, didn’t have a scoring shot from only five possessions. That doesn’t happen.

Defensively, they didn’t track back to fill holes and gave away silly — and costly — free kicks. Brian Lake was out-muscled in one-on-one’s, James Frawley was scratchy and Josh Gibson coughed the ball up in front of goal.

They were under big time pressure and here was a brutal reminder that no side is immune to pressure.

With the Hawthorn legend growing to ridiculous levels, perhaps we needed that reminder.

http://www.news.com.au/national/hawthorn-had-no-answers-for-richmonds-defensive-pressure/story-e6frfkp9-1227465551860

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Pretenders no more, Tigers start to roar

Richmond emerges as premiership threat after dismantling Hawthorn

Jay Clark
Herald-Sun
July 31, 2015 11:09PM


FOR a long time, Richmond has been a novelty act.

The team has often provided high entertainment and been brilliant in patches but there was always that feeling the next let-down was never far away.

But against one of the most dominant sides we’ve ever seen in Hawthorn, Richmond unveiled themselves as a genuine contender for the premiership.

For a club that hasn’t won a final since 2001, they are dangerous words, and the Tiger chiefs will clamber to put the lid back on after last night’s 18-point win.

But for almost three intoxicating hours at the MCG, Richmond showed they have the mettle to back up from an excruciating loss against Fremantle last week and, for the third time in their past four outings, apply the plan and the pressure required to clinically deconstruct the high-flying Hawks.

The victory was the massive shake-up the season needed, helping put the Tigers back on track for a pivotal double chance. And it continued a run from Richmond dating back to mid-last season that has built belief for nearly 12 months.

The Tigers have now won 20 of their last 27 games and have an undeniable hold over the Hawks that shows they can stop their laser-like ball movement and then score against Al Clarkson’s men like few others have.

Perhaps the biggest question mark over the Tigers remained their composure. In their last two finals against Port Adelaide and Carlton, they were blown away in the first 15 minutes of the first term against the Power last year and surrendered a four-goal lead to Carlton with a forgettable second-half in 2013.

When the heat was on in the big games before, they have crumbled.

But when the Hawks levelled terms in the second quarter last night and briefly re-claimed the lead, the Tigers’ nerves and belief was once again tested.

And a surrender here, from such a strong early position after leading by four goals in the opening quarter, would leave a deeper wound than last week.

But as Ivan Maric outmarked Brian Lake at centre half forward and chipped calmly to an open Jack Riewoldt, converting an easy goal in a key moment in the second term, the Tigers made a statement that they were perhaps better than just a pretty good side at full strength, as CEO Brendon Gale said earlier in the year.

In fact, as Richmond hammered home another three goals in the third term, and kept the Hawks to 38 points at the final change, you could feel Richmond fans wrap their hands around the AFL record with the same excitement as a young child putting out milk and biscuits on Christmas Eve.

There is never a dull chapter in the Richmond story and the Tigers provided fans with more heartache last weekend when they went within a misdirected kick-in of a win over ladder-leading Fremantle.

Instead of putting a down payment on a top-four berth, the last-play brain-fade left Damien Hardwick’s men at risk of being booted out of the eight altogether, if the results went against them this weekend.

And as an exasperated Rielwoldt thumped at the MCG turf in disgust, if not anger, moments after the Dockers defeat, you thought ‘only Richmond’ could butcher a gilt-edged opportunity like that.

But there is no doubt the boys from Punt Rd are a much more mature, resilient and confident lot these days, who take more care with the ball in hand than they did in the past.

And when Trent Cotchin and Ivan Maric went straight to Luke Hodge and Jarryd Roughead and barrelled straight into their brown and gold chests at the opening bounce, you knew then the in-your-face-Tigers were up for a fight.

What happened over the next 30 minutes will stay with the Richmond faithful for the rest of the season.

On top of away wins against Fremantle, Port Adelaide and Sydney earlier in the season, the Tigers again showed their best was good enough piling on the first four goals, leaving Hawthorn stunned.

The Hawks had smashed all comers in recent weeks, prompting one bookie to pay out on a third-straight premiership, convinced they were certainties. But the Tigers were more desperate and aggressive at the contest, and beautifully clinical in their plan to stretch the Hawthorn defensive trap.

With the Hawks fiercely guarding the corridor, the Tigers showed patience and accuracy along the boundary line, tempting the Hawthorn defenders to shift out of position. And when they did, Richmond took the openings in the middle of the ground that were given.

Defensively, Chris Newman was one of the men who set the temperature gauge at high, catching Sam Mitchell by the ends of his fingernails with a diving tackle through the middle of the ground.

They denied the Hawks the easy uncontested ball that has become their trademark and suffocated their star ball-winners such as Jordan Lewis and Sam Mitchell in a manner that was “possessed” according to Melbourne great Garry Lyon, on Triple M.

Alex Rance treated Ryan Schoenmakers with contempt dropping off the Hawk to provide coverage where needed and at the other end Riewoldt cannoned into the goalpost with as much force as he could muster in an effort scrounge a six-pointer from the goal line.

http://www.news.com.au/national/richmond-emerges-as-premiership-threat-after-dismantling-hawthorn/story-e6frfkp9-1227465567258