Round 3: Yze post-match presser.
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Yze revealed afterwards that the Tigers’ five-goal-to-one third quarter coincided with their highest pressure rating for the season.
“[This win is] not about me. For our players, I look at our last three weeks, the effort that our players have put in without getting a reward,” he said.
“We’ve had a lot of things going on, guys going out before a game, [and] obviously the Carlton game, we had players playing [in] different positions, all those sorts of things, and we just didn’t get the reward. So, I was just rapt for our players to get the reward today.
“We were super excited, with not only the effort of today, but ... it’s been a month of almosts, so I was rapt for them [to get some reward].
After only laying 32 tackles for the game last week in a loss to Port Adelaide, the club recorded 60 against the Swans, a metric that proved vital to the narrow victory.
"We trained it and we spoke about it," Yze said of his side's pressure.
"We weren't happy with the way that we pressured last week, we were just a step off. It's unlike us, it's not a Richmond type of game if we only lay 30 tackles. So, to the players' credit, to the leaders' credit, they recognised that during the week, and we trained it."
Sources: The Age &
AFL websites.
