Damien Hardwick rues a poor five minutes from Richmond Dustin Martin tackled by Mitch Duncan, Picture: Wayne Ludbey A FRUSTRATED Richmond coach Damien Hardwick was left to rue a disastrous five minutes early in the third quarter which changed the course of the match. After a gallant first half the Tigers were hit by injuries to their two ruckmen, Ivan Maric and Tyrone Vickery, in the space of two minutes and then an undiscplined act by veteran Chris Newman handed Geelong a crucial goal and momentum. Live HQ: Richmond v Geelong From there it was all Geelong with an 11 goal to five second half burying the Tigers. Newman gave away an off-the-ball free-kick to Taylor Hunt which saw the ball taken from his teammate Dustin Martin who was set to have a shot for goal from 20m out. The Cats then received two 50m penalities resulting in Allen Christensen kicking the goal. "It was disappointing," Hardwick said. We spoke about it afterwards, the thing about it is the retaliator always gets caught. We take a mark in the goalsquare and it ends up a 12-point turnaround at the other end. For that to come from Chris was disappointing, he has got to be better than that. I think after that they got a centre bounce goal as well so it ended up being a huge knockout blow really. Vickery had to be subbed out of the game after being concussed following a nasty head clash with Cats star Steve Johnson. Maric, who had hobbled off a minute early, was forced to come back onto the ground but was clearly hampered by an ankle injury. "When we lost Tyrone and Ivan straight away, our forward structure went out the window and it was tough," Hardwick said. The scoreboard blew out in the end but I thought it was closer up until our injuries started to curtail us in the end. We are 3-3 and we are in the pack, those sides especially Geelong have shown the level you have to got to play at. We certainly felt we could have played better tonight but we have to re-group and get ready for Port Adelaide next week.