Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin stated his facet’s comeback got here as they began to get the turnover recreation proper.
“I assumed most likely early within the recreation, we most likely over-possessed the ball at instances, and turned the ball over in vital areas and to Richmond’s credit score, they’re an excellent turnover workforce and so they rebounded actually strongly and hit the scoreboard,” stated Goodwin post-game.
“So our skill to tidy up ball in hand helped our defence to a number of diploma and I assumed we began to actually ramp up that contest stuff as the sport went on.”
He added his facet had been working onerous on their need and wish to do the true onerous issues within the recreation and that the victory was “a win for the character”.
“I really feel like we’ve capable of simply put on groups down in most video games all through the season, even the 2 video games we’ve misplaced, we’ve been capable of proceed to search out methods late within the recreation and provides ourselves an opportunity.
Melbourne senior coach Simon Goodwin.Credit score: Getty
Goodwin additionally admitted they have been contemplating subbing off Jacob van Rooyen earlier within the recreation however have been grateful they didn’t after the 20-year-old had an enormous final quarter with three objectives.
