Richmond coach Damien Hardwick says the Tigers season has been a kick in the backside after their miserable 2016 campaign ended with the biggest AFL loss of his seven-year tenure.The gulf between the minor premiership-winning Sydney and the 13th-placed Tigers was painfully obvious at the SCG on Saturday night, when Richmonds season finished with a 113-point loss.It was their first three-digit defeat in five years and their heaviest loss since a 157-point caning by Geelong nine years ago.You look at any sporting club, any organisation, theres always a kick in the backside at some stage and this is our kick in the backside, Hardwick said.The important thing for us is what we learn from this year, from a coaching point of view, from a playing list point of view, from a football club point of view.Its going to be a big off-season for us.Weve got to improve our list, improve our talent, theres no doubt about that.While expecting Richmond will be active in the trade period, Hardwick was reluctant to lose any of the handful of top-quality players at the club.We dont have a lot of really, really good players, so those players as far, as Im concerned, will be staying, Hardwick said.He doubted Saturdays massive loss would discourage potential recruits, saying they would understand the Tigers emphasis on giving younger players a chance.Hardwick conceded some of the youngsters were not ready.Among them was Sudanese-born Mabior Chol, who became the eighth Tigers debutant of the year when he was pitched into battle against a rampant Sydney side.But its going to be a good stepping stone for Mabs to actually understand what it takes to play the rigours of AFL footy, and that was the whole exercise going forward, Hardwick said. 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There are surprises among the Vezina candidates, but most of the others are standard top-tier performers, even if the two Hart Trophy runners-ups have never been quite as good as they have been through the first half of the season.Each week, The Reporters put their thumbs out to the good and the bad in the world of sports. This week they discuss . Bruce Arthur, National Post: My thumb is down to whoever let Justin Bieber play with the Stanley Cup this week. Pictures of the vacant-headed teen jerk posing with the trophy were pure hockey PR; he stepped on Chicagos sacred carpet logo, but frankly, they were lucky he didnt pee on it. But that annoyed feeling washed away when the next set of Cup pictures surfaced - Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville in a childrens hospital, with patients beaming, laughing, hugging the Stanley Cup. It really did have better things to do. Gary Lawless, Winnipeg Free Press: My thumb is down to painting Eric Lindros as a man of poor character for having the courage to try and shape his own destiny. Esteemed colleague and member of the HHOF selection committee Mark Defoy said on Winnipeg radio this week that, "some people might hold a grudge," against Lindros. For what? Because Lindros had the gall to try and control where he played hockey as a teenager and then later as an adult? The Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds didnt have to trade his rights and neither did the Quebec Nordiques. Lindros took a stand. Others turned their back on personal principle and then whinged in the aftermath. Lindros should or shouldnt get in the HHOF for what he did on the ice, nott for being strong enough to go against the grain.dddddddddddd Michael Farber, Sports Illustrated: My thumb is down to the New York Yankees for cavalier treatment of their most prized asset, Derek Jeter. Jeter missed this weekend series against Minnesota because of a strained quadriceps, which he sustained in his first game back after an abbreviated stint rehabbing a broken ankle. The Yankees panicked when the already skimpy lineup was further decimated by midweek injuries to Travis Hafner and Brett Gardner. So they called on the venerable captain, even though he had played just 22 innings in four minor league games. Hey, Jeter is 39. He cant outrun father time. And he shouldnt have been put in a position where he had to leg out infield hits. Dave Hodge, TSN : My thumb is down as I try to make sense of the Blue Jays inability or unwillingness to sign their first round draft pick, California high school pitcher Phil Bickford. Instead of turning pro with the Jays, Bickford will attend college at Cal State Fullerton. I dont pretend to know how good a prospect he is, but the Jays didnt select Bickford with the 10th overall pick thinking he was ordinary. They didnt choose him with the intention of not signing him. So why didnt they or why couldnt they? They wont say. They are the only team that failed to sign their first round pick. So I scratch my head with my thumb… pointed down. ' ' '