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Richmond could be without Brad Ottens for this Saturday's game against West Coast at Subiaco following scans on his knee.
Ottens left the field in the second half of Saturday night's drubbing against Port Adelaide and will learn the extent of his injury today.
Several other Tigers pulled up better than expected yesterday morning. Injuries to Greg Stafford (foot), Darren Gaspar (rolled ankle) and Jay Schulz (cork) are not expected to prevent them travelling to Perth.
"From where we had all those blokes that weren't available to go back on, possibly only Ottens might be a bit of a doubt this week," Richmond football manager Greg Hutchison said. "He is still a chance. He will have a scan . . . and we'll just see what happens."
Hutchison said the club was at a loss to explain the 78-point thrashing after three good wins. "We didn't play anywhere near where we would have expected . . . it was just one of those horrible nights for us," he said.
Richmond will be boosted by Mark Coughlan's return to training this week after spending the past month resting a groin complaint. Hutchison said Coughlan would not be considered for this week's match, but was a good chance to return the following week against the Kangaroos at Telstra Dome.
Richmond has not yet taken any action over a collision between Port Adelaide's Damien Hardwick and Tiger runner Matt Hornsby. Hutchison said he had not seen the incident. "If anything has happened, Matty is a pretty genial sort of bloke; he wouldn't have been saying anything untoward."
AFL football operations manager Adrian Anderson said he would have to view the incident before commenting.
Port coach Mark Williams welcomed his team's return to form, then donned his promoter's hat to blame television scheduling for the modest size of crowds at the Power's home games.
Williams echoed the complaint of the Crows, that televising AAMI Stadium matches in South Australia on only a 30-minute delay is lowering attendances and costing the two clubs money.
A crowd of only 25,671 saw Port trounce the Tigers, and Williams believes more than 30,000 should turn up to see Port play an in-form Geelong at AAMI Stadium on Sunday.
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RICHMOND will have the results today of scans on ruckman Brad Ottens' right knee, after an MRI scan yesterday. Ottens fell to the ground after hurting his knee in a boundary throw-in against Port Adelaide on Saturday.
Greg Stafford is expected to play this weekend, after experiencing a numb nerve in his ankle.
"Something happened to a nerve in his foot that slowed him down, and he should be fine," Tigers football manager Greg Hutchison said.
Ottens left the field in the second half of Saturday night's drubbing against Port Adelaide and will learn the extent of his injury today.
Several other Tigers pulled up better than expected yesterday morning. Injuries to Greg Stafford (foot), Darren Gaspar (rolled ankle) and Jay Schulz (cork) are not expected to prevent them travelling to Perth.
"From where we had all those blokes that weren't available to go back on, possibly only Ottens might be a bit of a doubt this week," Richmond football manager Greg Hutchison said. "He is still a chance. He will have a scan . . . and we'll just see what happens."
Hutchison said the club was at a loss to explain the 78-point thrashing after three good wins. "We didn't play anywhere near where we would have expected . . . it was just one of those horrible nights for us," he said.
Richmond will be boosted by Mark Coughlan's return to training this week after spending the past month resting a groin complaint. Hutchison said Coughlan would not be considered for this week's match, but was a good chance to return the following week against the Kangaroos at Telstra Dome.
Richmond has not yet taken any action over a collision between Port Adelaide's Damien Hardwick and Tiger runner Matt Hornsby. Hutchison said he had not seen the incident. "If anything has happened, Matty is a pretty genial sort of bloke; he wouldn't have been saying anything untoward."
AFL football operations manager Adrian Anderson said he would have to view the incident before commenting.
Port coach Mark Williams welcomed his team's return to form, then donned his promoter's hat to blame television scheduling for the modest size of crowds at the Power's home games.
Williams echoed the complaint of the Crows, that televising AAMI Stadium matches in South Australia on only a 30-minute delay is lowering attendances and costing the two clubs money.
A crowd of only 25,671 saw Port trounce the Tigers, and Williams believes more than 30,000 should turn up to see Port play an in-form Geelong at AAMI Stadium on Sunday.
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RICHMOND will have the results today of scans on ruckman Brad Ottens' right knee, after an MRI scan yesterday. Ottens fell to the ground after hurting his knee in a boundary throw-in against Port Adelaide on Saturday.
Greg Stafford is expected to play this weekend, after experiencing a numb nerve in his ankle.
"Something happened to a nerve in his foot that slowed him down, and he should be fine," Tigers football manager Greg Hutchison said.
