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Gold Coast Titans ... Anthony Don scores on debut. Source: Adam Head / News Limited
Written off by critics as not up to NRL standard, a physical Parramatta gave Gold Coast a mighty scare at Skilled Park on Sunday evening.
| 4 Tries 3 | |
|---|---|
| Anthony Don 13' | Jarryd Hayne 22' |
| Ashley Harrison 57' | Ryan Morgan 29' |
| Mark Minichiello 68' | Jarryd Hayne 49' |
| Albert Kelly 71' | |
| 4 Conversions3 | |
| Beau Henry 15' | Chris Sandow 23' |
| Beau Henry 58' | Chris Sandow 30' |
| Beau Henry 69' | Chris Sandow 51' |
| Beau Henry 72' | |
| 2 Penalties2 | |
| Beau Henry 20' | Chris Sandow 8' |
| Beau Henry 62' | Chris Sandow 26' |
The Titans escaped 28-22 after trailing 22-8 but they had their fair share of luck, especially with halfback Albert Kelly's match-winning try in the 72nd minute.
Kelly scored after his own bomb took a deflection off teammate Luke Douglas as the Parramatta defence, including fullback Jarryd Hayne, let the ball bounce.
Hayne had pulled off a spectacular AFL-like leap to score a try in the 49th minute that put the Eels out to a 14-point lead.
Hayne also saved the day when he took debutant winger Anthony Don into touch with Parramatta clinging to a 22-16 lead.
An average spectacle for the first 40 minutes, the contest came alive after Titans forward Ashley Harrison crashed over to make it 22-14 before five-eighth Beau Henry kicked one of his six goals to reduce the deficit to six points.
Titans interchange forward Mark Minichiello levelled the scores after Kelly put him through a narrow gap 10 metres out.
Parramatta were hammered in the second half penalties 8-1 which helped the Titans' recovery mission.
But for a team beaten 50-0 three weeks ago they took the Titans to the wire.
The visitors, coming off a confidence-boosting upset over Cronulla last weekend, muscled up on their rivals.
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They led 16-8 at halftime and could have had a bigger lead just after the break had Kelepi Tanginoa not been called back for a forward pass after he raced across the Titans tryline.
"Over the last two weeks we've thrown two passes that were ruled forward but they were just too good for the refs," Parramatta coach Ricky Stuart said.
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"That wasn't a forward pass tonight to young Kelepi scoring under the posts. The pass was too good for the ref."
"We've got to sit here and front the media and I try to be as honest as I can ... get those referees in here to talk about their bullshit errors."
Stuart said his players deserved the win - and a better deal.
"We got beat 50-0 two weeks ago. We handled it. We copped it on the chin," he said.
"Tonight should have been our game. You can't have a seven-nil penalty count and win a game of football.
"I'm up in the box and I'm hearing two referees saying `hand on ball, hand on ball', yet no penalty.
"Jarryd (Hayne), Reni Maitua go to the ref and ask for an explanation.
"They get an explanation in frigging Spanish."
The Titans, who had co-captains Nate Myles and Greg Bird named in Australia's Test side to play New Zealand on Friday, were ordinary at times while committing a comedy of errors.
They dropped passes, dropped kicks and threw wild passes over the sideline.
Parramatta were clearly the more enthusiastic side, starting the second half well before Bird and Harrison stepped up and provided some energy to start the hosts' comeback.
An angry and emotional Stuart slammed the refereeing and warned the game was going backwards after his players were buried under a mountain of second half penalties.
The former Australian and NSW Origin coach let rip at referees' boss Daniel Anderson during the post-match interview and didn't spare referees Jason Robinson and Adam Gee who copped a spray from Wests Tigers coach Michael Potter recently.
"I thought we were the better team. I just feel sorry for the players. It's happened every single week," bristled Stuart.
"Were just a very, very easy team to penalise.
"I'm sick and tired of (referees' boss) Daniel Anderson talking to my coaches during the week and saying he understands in regard to a penalty, no penalty, yet it still happens week-in, week-out.
"It's only because were a very easy team to penalise.
"We don't have any of the higher profile players where we can get penalties.
"It's bullshit. I just feel so sorry for the players."
Stuart said the penalties against his side were probably warranted - he just couldn't believe it was such a one way street.
"I'm not blowing up about that. But there's no way they were that clean. It's just wrong. It was unfair," he said.
"That out there tonight, that was very, very obvious."
Titans winger David Mead was taken to hospital for x-rays for a suspected broken jaw which he played on with for the last 10 minutes of the match.
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