{"id":190928,"date":"2025-10-05T05:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T05:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190928\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T05:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T05:17:07","slug":"tigers-end-aflw-drought-in-shock-11-point-win-over-crows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190928\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers end AFLW drought in shock 11-point win over Crows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Richmond&#8217;s search for its first AFLW win of the season is over after Monique Conti inspired an 11-point win over Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Crows had looked poised to condemn the Tigers to an eighth-straight defeat after building an 11-point lead before half-time at Princes Park on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">But the Tigers refused to relent and kicked six to two goals in the second half to set up 8.10 (58) to 6.11 (47) upset victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Richmond had entered Sunday&#8217;s round-eight clash last on the ladder (0-7 win-loss record) as the only team not to have won a match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Ryan Ferguson&#8217;s Tigers now move to 17th place, ahead of Gold Coast, with their first defeat of the Crows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Crows&#8217; loss halts their three-match winning streak and they drop to fifth (5-2).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Conti (one goal, 35 disposals, six clearances) was outstanding in a thrilling midfield battle against Crows counterpart Ebony Marinoff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Marinoff, who marked an equal-record 100 matches last week, finished with 27 disposals and six clearances.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-10-04\/aflw-saints-giants-kangaroos-swans-suns-lions-power-bulldogs\/105852414\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roos post 20th straight win<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The Kangaroos&#8217; premiership defence remains on course following a 68-point thrashing of Sydney, while Brisbane snags its third consecutive win of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Ellie McKenzie was also busy for Richmond and kicked a career-best three goals from 24 touches, supported by captain Katie Brennan (two goals).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Tigers ran hot from the first bounce and got off to a dream start when McKenzie launched near the arc for the opener.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">But the Crows responded with the last two goals to take a five-point lead at quarter-time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Key defender Gabby Seymour was substituted out in the second quarter with a knee injury, only adding more pressure on the Tigers&#8217; back-line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Danielle Ponter and Eloise Jones got on the scoreboard to give the Crows breathing space before half-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">But the Tigers remained dogged and upped the pressure, punishing the Crows by scoring all three goals in the third quarter from turnovers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Crows dominated territory in the final term but couldn&#8217;t take advantage of their chances, kicking five behinds as Richmond prevailed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richmond&#8217;s search for its first AFLW win of the season is over after Monique Conti inspired an 11-point&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[3443,638,25912,64,63,55,639,3925,6856,2475,10990,6092,18597,13658,24705,6858,120081,85,13338,6857],"class_list":["post-190928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-adelaide","tag-afl","tag-aflw","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-blues","tag-carlton","tag-cats","tag-collingwood","tag-crows","tag-eagles","tag-geelong","tag-magpies","tag-richmond","tag-round-eight","tag-sports","tag-tigers","tag-west-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}