But a testy exchange at three-quarter time between Magpie forwards Dan McStay and Lachie Schultz was highlighted in the TV coverage of their 15.16 (106) to 11.6 (72) Saturday twilight win.
The footage showed McStay looking nonplussed when Schultz went to talk to him at the break. Nick Daicos then came in to give McStay a pat on the back.
Schultz starred with four goals and Daicos kicked three in his 37-possession game as Collingwood improved to ninth on the ladder with a 7-7-1 record.
Jordan De Goey also continued his strong run of form for the Magpies.
With eight games to the finals, Collingwood have a massive away game next week against Gold Coast, who are half a game behind them.
Magpies coach Craig McRae said he had not seen the incident with McStay and Schultz, but that the team had worked this season on handling down moments during games.
"I'm not aware of that. We've had a bit of feedback for ourselves - when things don't quite go our way, or you make mistakes in the game or 'I'm not having a great game' - what that looks like," McRae said.
"How we move on from things and how we let things go, that's been a theme for a number of weeks now.
"I feel like we're getting some progression in that."
Scores from turnovers cruelled the Tigers - Collingwood kicked 91 points from that source - and the Magpies took full toll.
"We just feel like we have a bit of momentum building,'' McRae said.
"It's a nice time of the year to get some things moving.
"Parts of our game are really starting to take shape, in terms of things we're doing really well.
"We have a bit of a licorice all-sorts forward line at times, and we're finding ways to kick 100 points."
Rhyan Mansell made a successful return from injury for Richmond and kicked three goals in only his second game this season, one of them a stunning shot from deep in a pocket in the last quarter.
Tim Taranto also kicked four goals and racked up 26 disposals for the Tigers, while youngster Patrick Retschko (26 possessions, 10 marks) continued his strong debut season.
Rebounding from last weekend's scrappy loss to North Melbourne, the Tigers made a solid start.
However, Collingwood kicked six goals to one in the second term and, as coach Adem Yze noted, that was eventually the difference.
"Today was a good response. We played the right way. We just missed our opportunities and fell away for one quarter against a good team," Yze said.
Speaking about their turnovers, he added: "We can't take away the flair. We want to play with speed - we played the right way today with the ball.
"It was just some skill execution and some decisions from our back end - we did probably just gift them some. We just have to embrace that while we're going through what we're going through.''
Some debatable umpiring decisions early hurt Richmond and Yze's frustration as he coached from the interchange bench was obvious.
But he said Richmond's skill errors were a much bigger issue.
"That's the game - if I'm getting frustrated, and I probably did a little bit down on the bench, but we expect our players to just move on and stay engaged, stay in the moment," he said.
"You just have to cop it."
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