While impressedwith the job of undersized defender Nathan Carroll, and the mid-game turnaroundin form of Brad Miller and Aaron Davey, Riley said there were plenty of piecesleft to complete the Melbourne jigsaw.

Captain DavidNeitz, and fellow team generals Cameron Bruce, Adem Yze, Travis Johnstone andBrad Green were all spectators for the 18.18 (126) to 12.10 (82) loss.

Riley said he hadalready identified areas that needed improving.

“It’s never everjust one thing,” he said.

“We need a bigtarget - we’ve got one, he’s our skipper. We probably need Brad Miller to keepgrowing. We need James Frawley (six games) to mature rapidly as an AFL player, butthat just doesn’t happen, you’ve got to put games into them.

“James is thetype of boy that is six foot three, can play tall, can play small and has pace.

“We have to keepimproving our contested ball, it’s as simple as that. We’ve got to keepimproving winning contested ball all over the oval, not just around the centrebounce, but all over the oval.”

One aspect thatleft a smile on the face of Riley after the loss was the form of Carroll.

After starting onlivewire Jared Brennan, he was moved to a rampant Jonathan Brown after theLions champion had kicked three goals early in the first term.

Despite aconstant flow of traffic coming his way, Carroll allowed Brown just anotherthree goals for the night.

Riley said hegave Miller first go at Brown to continue his development.

“We wanted tohave a look at Brad Miller over the last seven or eight weeks on big-bodiedforwards,” he said.

“It’s been a bitof an area of concern and in previous experience, Nathan has defended thefast-leading full-forwards really well but he has struggled with big men.

“He’s only six foottwo and Brad is a bit bigger, so we thought we’d give (Miller) the first crackat it. As it turned out, not many could have defended the ball that was cominghis way, and we decided to change it.

“I’m as harsh acritic of Nathan Carroll as anyone, but I’m very pleased for the boy.

“He knows he’sstill got a long way to go but he does a manful job for us for a guy that is abit undersized down there in defence.”

Riley also paidcredit to Miller for a solid last three quarters after the bath Brown gave him early,as well as Davey who ended up with four goals after barely getting a touch inthe first term.

Davey also gaveaway a 50m penalty that led to a goal after he was niggled by the Lions.

“What we werepleased about is how Aaron responded and let his football do the talking,”Riley said.

“He’s got tolearn that because he’s going to get some attention throughout the remainder ofhis career.

“I thought heresponded pretty well after we took him off and spoke to him, and it’s an areawe will work with him and he’ll work on himself. But as you saw when he let hisfooty do the talking, he’s a wonderful player (who) brings people through thegates.”