\n The Tigers fell by four points in a tight game in wet weather on the Gold Coast.\n <\/p>\n
\n By <\/p>\n
Michael Whiting, AFL Media\n <\/p>\n
Gold Coast has kept its top four chances alive, clinging on for a four-point win over Richmond at a wet People First Stadium on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Trailing by 11 points at half-time and down two players for a good portion of the game, the Suns kicked four third-quarter goals and hung on to win 8.6 (54) to 7.8 (50).<\/p>\n
The victory moves Rhyce Shaw\u2019s team to 8-3, with a final round win over Greater Western Sydney required to give themselves a shot at the coveted double chance in November.<\/p>\n
Havana Harris continued her ascension as one of the competition\u2019s best young forwards, kicking a career-high four goals, with three in the second half as her team swung momentum dramatically.<\/p>\n
Co-captain Niamh McLaughlin was arguably best on ground, with her quick feet, sure hands and good decisions crucial in her 32-disposal performance.<\/p>\n
Charlie Rowbottom (32 disposals) was outstanding as the rain poured, while Ava Usher (17, six score involvements, a goal and five tackles) was a constant threat forward of centre.<\/p>\n
Gold Coast played most of the game without Dekota Baron, who was ruled out early in the second quarter following a head knock, while Daisy D’Arcy joined her on the sidelines in the third term with concussion.<\/p>\n
Being two players down, the Suns led by 20 points early in the fourth quarter, but goals to Maddie Shevlin and Catilin Greiser set up a nailbiting finish.<\/p>\n
With the ball camped inside Gold Coast’s defensive 50 for most of the last 10 minutes, they repeatedly rushed behinds to hold off the fighting Tigers.<\/p>\n
Following a goalless opening term, Gold Coast lifted its intensity early in the second with Harris and Usher kicking the opening two goals.<\/p>\n
But the visitors flipped the script with a devastating four-goal burst to take an 11-point advantage to the main break.<\/p>\n
Bec Miller banged one home from 40m, Shevlin was smart over the back of a contest, Paige Scott kicked a wonderful individual goal and finally Gabby Seymour threaded a precise set shot.<\/p>\n
Richmond transitioned the ball superbly, changing angles and stretching Gold Coast when they won the ball back from any spot on the ground.<\/p>\n
Sierra Greaves and Ellie McKenzie (21 disposals apiece) were tireless for the Tigers.<\/p>\n
Up next
Gold Coast travels to Henson Park next Sunday (12.35pm AEDT) to play Greater Western Sydney, needing a victory to give itself a chance of finishing in the top four. Richmond will finish its season with the hardest assignment in the competition, hosting two-time premier North Melbourne at Windy Hill next Saturday afternoon (3.05pm AEDT).<\/p>\n
GOLD COAST\u00a0 \u00a0 0.3\u00a0 \u00a02.4\u00a0 \u00a06.6\u00a0 \u00a08.6 (54)
RICHMOND\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 0.1\u00a0 \u00a04.3\u00a0 \u00a05.4\u00a0 \u00a07.8 (50)<\/p>\n
GOALS
Gold Coast:\u00a0Harris 4, Usher, Talbot, Quigley, Lappin
Richmond:\u00a0Shevlin 2, Greiser 2, Seymour, Scott, Miller<\/p>\n
BEST\u00a0
Gold Coast:\u00a0McLaughlin, Harris, Rowbottom, Usher, Fitzpatrick, Brancatisano
Richmond:\u00a0Grieves, McKenzie, Dallaway, East, Shevlin, Miller<\/p>\n
INJURIES
Gold Coast:\u00a0Baron (head), D\u2019Arcy (concussion)
Richmond:\u00a0Nil<\/p>\n
Reports:\u00a0Nil<\/p>\n
Crowd: 1954 at People First Stadium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tigers fell by four points in a tight game in wet weather on the Gold Coast. By…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-939193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939193","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=939193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}