Despite Richmond’s loss to Adelaide on Sunday, Adem Yze praised his side's resilience and was proud of the way they responded to a disappointing third term. 

“We will review this game really honestly. For three quarters, we were competitive, and we played the right way, we took away parts of their game that we wanted to, but in the third quarter, we weren’t good enough,” Yze said post-game.

“We just have to be good enough for four quarters, we have to play consistent footy for four quarters. Our attitude and intent hasn’t changed or wavered.

“We could have turned our toes up in the last quarter, but the response for Tommy Burton to keep running and keep trying and give us an opportunity to even test them, that’s the basis of our Club.

"We will keep fighting right until the end, and when we get everyone available, we will be really hard to play against.”

Now the focus for Yze is to help his side maintain a competitive brand of football for four quarters.

“When we have everyone available, we are a very competitive team,” Yze said.  

“We were really competitive [on Sunday] in the first half against a really strong team, so my job is to fast-track that.

“We will sit here when those lads have played 30 or 40 games together, and then I think we will bounce back really quickly.”

Yze acknowledged the frustration that the Tiger Army is feeling, with Richmond winning just one game from its first nine matches. The coach explained the balancing act of patience and impatience the Club is handling, due to the unavailability of key young players.

“As a Club, within our four walls, we are impatient,” Yze said.  

“My job is to get us back to playing finals footy as quickly as we can, but the reality is, there has to be patience for when that is.

“I’m preaching patience right now because of what we are going through. If we had all of our players available and we weren’t performing, then we should be impatient right now.

“We know our Tiger Army are hurting at the moment. We don’t like where we are sitting. We don’t like the fact that they aren’t able to come and watch those young, highly talented players out on the field.

“So our job as a footy club is to get them back out there as quick as we can and then play the right type of footy as quick as we can as well."