Richmond coach Damien Hardwick has seen a noticeable rise in performance in his team in the last few weeks, since the disappointment of the early rounds of the 2014 season.

Hardwick said the Tigers revisited their game plan over the round eight bye after a number of elements dropped off in the month leading up their week off. 

He said while the way they were playing remained unacceptable, there had been improvement since the break.

"There were a couple of areas that we trained heavily in trying to improve over the summer and at the start of the season, but unfortunately if you're working a lot in one area, you're probably letting slip another," he said.

"What we found in our game plan, we just weren't executing it to the level we'd like.

"You can have as many injuries as you want but the reality was, our players and our coaching staff, we weren't delivering on what we wanted overall.

"From round nine onwards we've addressed a few of those issues and our numbers have started to improve.

"We haven't won the games we require but overall our standard of footy I think has improved over those weeks."

Hardwick said the Tigers would continue to refrain from giving players games if they hadn't earned them in the second half of the season.

He also said the improvement had to come from across the board for the team to move forward.

"We don't want to point fingers – everyone can improve, we accept that as a coaching group and a playing group," he said.

"We've disappointed our supporters, our members, these type of people who come week in, week out.

"The way we're playing is not good enough and it's unacceptable, so we've got to make sure we earn the respect back of our supporters and also the AFL in general and play the way we know we can play."