Richmond’s highest-scoring quarter of the 2019 season came at just the right time in yesterday’s clash with St Kilda at Marvel Stadium.

Holding a slender seven-point lead at three quarter-time, and struggling to stave off a determined Saints’ challenge, the Tigers clicked in the final term.

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They piled on 7.3, their best return in a quarter for the season, to run out comfortable 33-point winners.

Their previous highest-scoring term in 2019 was 6.4 in the third quarter of the Round 8 match against Fremantle at Optus Stadium.

It also was only the sixth time in 14 games to date this year that Richmond had won a last quarter.