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NRL Score Centre Brisbane Broncos slump to fifth-straight NRL defeat as Keano Kini conjures golden moment for Gold Coast TitansBy Nick Campton
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Keano Kini has scored one of the great game-winning tries to sink Brisbane, with the Titans snatching a 28-23 victory at Lang Park.
A 73rd-minute Adam Reynolds field goal appeared to have taken the Broncos to victory, before Kini, from 55m out, chipped ahead and snatched the ball from Reece Walsh's grasp to race away in the 76th minute.
Kini then saved a last-gasp try attempt by the Broncos when he knocked the ball dead to secure a famous win for his club.
The Broncos were wearing their all-black mental health jersey, the same one they donned against the Titans last year in round 14 when a big win kick-started a 10-2 finish to the season and a run to the title.
In a detail of symmetry, they had a 5-7 start to the season last year before the Titans clash, exactly the same beginning they had made to this season.
However, that's where the historical parallels would end, with the Broncos unable to avoid a fifth-consecutive defeat.
Gold Coast fought back late in the first half, with Sami crossing for a brilliant breakaway try. (Getty Images: Bradley Kanaris)
An exhilarating double to Jayden Campbell and a brilliant Phillip Sami breakaway try saw the Titans surge in front after the Broncos had raced out to a 12-0 first-half lead.
The premiers went on to dictate much of the second period, and drew level when Brendan Piakura came up with a stunning ball for Grant Anderson to slide over, but were ultimately undone by Kini's match-winning moment.
Earlier, Selwyn Cobbo scored two tries as the Dolphins completed a 40-14 win over the Cowboys in Townsville, earning the Redcliffe-based side a fifth win on the trot and moving it to within touching distance of the league's top four.
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The Dolphins have continued their climb up the NRL ladder, stamping themselves as a genuine premiership contenders with a 40-14 demolition of the Cowboys.
In an entertaining battle played in front of a full house in Townsville on Saturday, the Cowboys were fired up for prop Coen Hess' 200th NRL game.
But the Dolphins were just a class above, scoring seven tries to three to give Kristian Woolf's men five wins on the trot, a club record, and moving them into fifth place ahead of a bye next week before back-to-back games against the Warriors and Panthers.
Selwyn Cobbo continued his stellar form, running for 321 metres, Kodi Nikorima toyed with the defence and backrowers Connelly Lemuelu and Kulikefu Finefeuiaki gave the Cowboys nightmares on the edges.
Cobbo got the scoring underway in the sixth minute after pouncing on a dropped ball and scampering 85m to score, only for Murray Tualagi to reply for the Cowboys, catching a nice Liam Sutton pass and falling over the line out wide.
Tom Chester then put the Cowboys in front after Liam Kennedy in the bunker overruled the original no try decision from referee Wyatt Raymond.
Chester appeared to lose the ball with the help of Cobbo in the tackle, but Kennedy adjudged the Dolphins winger to have knocked the ball back over the line and Chester was able to touchdown.
The Dolphins then capitalised on a weight of possession and some Cowboys errors with Jack Bostock first putting Jamayne Isaako over, then feeding Isaiya Katoa to touchdown, sending the visitors into the break leading 16-10.
Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow made the most of a Lemuelu break to extend the lead eight minutes into the second half, but the Cowboys bounced back almost immediately when Chester crossed.
Kurt Donoghoe then found his way through some paper thin defence, Cobbo got his second and Tom Flegler powered over to run away with the game.