Richmond coach Adem Yze has analysed his side's 2025 season, admitting that while there has been growth, the areas for improvement are obvious.

After going down to Geelong in the final game of the 2025 season on Saturday, it finalised the Tigers' record at five wins and 18 losses for Yze's second year at the helm.

And there were elements - the come-from-behind Carlton win in Round 1, beating a likely finals-bound Gold Coast, promising debuts and growth across the board - that have left Yze feeling hopeful for more improvement in 2026.

"As a whole, we feel like we got some growth. We got some games into our younger players. Our first-year boys showed some huge growth," Yze said after Round 24 on Saturday night.

"To see Taj Hotton get the back half of the season, Harry Armstrong came back in after his hamstring, as well as the growth of our mid tier boys."

It wasn't always easy, but for the coach and his impressionable, young playing group, it's served important lessons, and given an understanding of where Richmond went wrong this season.

"There's games that we weren't good enough and we're really disappointed in. But there's other games that we're in," Yze said.

"For us as a Club right now, we've just got to be in more games and limit the bleeding when we do have some lapses.

"Against the really good teams, it's been one quarter that's just blown us off the park."

One quarter was all it took for Richmond to feel shaky against a finals-bound Geelong, with the coach "disappointed" in his side's slow start.

"We were really disappointed in our first half. We gave up way too many scores off turnover," Yze said.

"We tried to play too fast, we looked a little bit scattered on offence, which just fuelled their game."

But there was something to push for, even though finals were not in sight for the Tigers, with pride always on the line.

"To the boys' credit in the second half, proud is probably the word for their response," Yze said.

"It could have gone two ways, last game of the year, nothing to play for. But we did have something to play for. That was one of our greatest Richmond men in Kamdyn McIntosh. And he would never give up, so the boys played the right way in the second half.

"While the Richmond response in the second half was a positive, we've got to work out different ways on how we can stay in the game longer against the quality teams."

Richmond now look ahead to the 2026 season, with hopes of taking the next step.