Chasing 70: Murphy working towards complete performance against Tigers

Whilst Karyn Murphy might be needing weekly visits to the cardiologist after a number of tight finishes, the Titans NRLW coach is confident her team can piece together a 70-minute performance in the lead-up to finals.

Taking away plenty from now three wins at the death this season - including another clutch Lauren Brown field goal against the Dragons last Saturday - this Sunday sets itself up as a perfect opportunity against an injury-ravaged Tigers to join the dots from the past six showings in a complete performance just in time for the pointy end of the year.

In order to do this, Murphy believes it's about concentrating on staying focussed on controlling games for long periods - which her side is continually learning to do in this first six weeks of the competition.

"It's about consistency, sticking to the process and not going away from something that's working," she said.

"It was definitely working for that first period of last week's game and then we went away from it, so that's been a big part of our review this week is looking at that.

"If we can put it all together for the full 70, we'll be good footy team and hard to beat.

"It was only the round just gone that we were able to hit the lead and not have points against us early, so when that happened, it was a different position for the girls and something maybe they weren't used to... we then left points out there going into half-time and then let the Dragons back into the game.

"So as we're going along, we're learning plenty of lessons and we need to be better for that whole 70 minutes."

The 23-22 triumph has moved the Titans to third on the NRLW ladder with now having three of their past four wins being decided in the final minute of the game, and despite it continually giving the coaching staff and fans heart palpitations, the tight finishes shouldn't be taken negatively, given it's taught the Gold Coast they can continually win at the death.

"We've had plenty of close games, but I think that's a good position to be in (closing in on finals)," Murphy said. 

"We're learning how to win those games and not dropping those tight ones. We know we can stay right through to that final whistle and grind out those games.

"It's not how you want it to be every week, but being in those tight positions will help us at the back end."