Richmond coach Adem Yze said he took some solace from the Tigers' second half against Geelong on Saturday night, which they only lost by eight points after trailing by 49 points at half-time following a one-sided first half. 

"I can't fault our attitude, our effort...that part of it, it was a credit to our lads," Yze said. 

"At half-time we had a choice to make as a group and as a club, but the boys fought it out. 

"(I was) really disappointed with our second quarter and our boys were as well. We were toiling away but just allowing too many scores from our front end, so there's some system stuff that wasn't good enough again, whether that's from young lads and just some lack of synergy with our team defence...but that wasn't up to standard.

"All we could do was fight it out and play the right way and just show the right behaviours to finish off the season with some pride. I thought we did that, but whenever you lose a game, you're never happy." 

Yze said young Tiger Sam Banks, who was sent to hospital during the match with an elevated heart rate, was recovering well from the scare and had been sent home. 

“He obviously went to hospital, he had an irregular heartbeat but he's been discharged now so he's on his way home,” Yze said post-match.

"He thought he hurt his shoulder or thought he hurt his pec (pectoral muscle) in a tackle. So he copped a big hit in a tackle, went back out there and then obviously started feeling a little bit weird.

“Obviously took precaution with that and sent him away (to hospital). But yeah, good to hear that he's out of hospital and on his way home.”