Richmond may have just copped a ten-goal hiding to Geelong, but Terry Wallace still feels the club is heading in the right direction.

The Tigers served it up to the Cats early on in the game on Saturday night, but were outclassed by the reigning premier, eventually going down by 63 points in a lop-sided encounter.

While a 63-point loss may seem like a bad one for the Tigers, it was a huge improvement from the last time they took on the Cats at the Telstra Dome.

In Round 6 last year, Geelong defeated Richmond by 157 points at the Dome and many experts were querying Wallace's coaching and just when the Tigers were going to improve.

But since then, the Tigers have improved and Wallace believes his club will one day get to the level that the Cats are currently showing.

"I still think that we are going in the right direction," Wallace said.

"Geelong has been a much better side than us over my period of coaching, but I think Geelong would be saying that they are getting more competitive games of footy against Richmond now than what we have had in the past."

"We have still got some things to clean up if we want to be the best and we know that and we understand that."

Richmond now finds itself half a game outside the eight and face Adelaide, Hawthorn, Fremantle and Melbourne in its final month of football.

Having played out a draw against the Western Bulldogs earlier in the season, Wallace knows that percentage will not come into the equation for the Tigers if they are to sneak into the finals.

Wallace said there were too many 'permutations and combinations' to work out how many wins Richmond will require to make the eight, but he did say that it would be a big test to see how his side responded to the 10-goal drubbing to the Cats.

"Percentage is no issue for us. If we lose to Geelong by two goals or ten goals, obviously we want to get as close to them as we can, but its going to make no difference to our outcomes at all," Wallace said.

"Winning and losing is going to make the difference to our outcomes and we have just got to put our best foot forward over the next couple of weeks."

"Its what you do in the three or four weeks after you play Geelong whether it puts you into your shell or whether you're prepared to get back on it and play your footy. We were five out of six leading into this game and now we are five out of seven and that is still pretty reasonable form for this time of year."