Tenacious Tiger Steven Morris didn’t mince words in his appraisal of Richmond’s 32-point defeat at the hands of Melbourne at the MCG last Friday night.

“It’s a little bit embarrassing just to play the way we did . . . We expect more from every single one of us.  At the end of the day, I expect better from myself, just like the other 21 do,” Morris said on ‘The Richmond Review’. 

“Our ball use inside-50 wasn’t great.  We probably didn’t play smart enough.  We kicked to their spare too often I felt, and then they seemed to get their numbers forward pretty well, particularly on the ‘fat’ sides. 

“They’re certainly things that we’ll review . . . it won’t be a pretty review, but you’ve got to do these things to improve . . .

“The big thing is recovery, not feel sorry for ourselves, but prepare as well as we possibly can for the game next week . . . It’s no good feeling sorry for ourselves.

“We know we can compete with the best sides and we proved that last year.  We still take confidence from that and if we play our brand of footy the way that we should play it, we’re going to test some really good teams in the comp. 

“We’ll review it and we’ve just got to focus on Geelong as soon as we possibly can.”