Broncos find winning form
Brisbane snapped a three-match losing run with a see-sawing 50-24 win over Newcastle at Lang Park.
The Broncos raced out to a 24-0 lead after almost as many minutes, but the Knights rebounded with three tries to trail 26-18 at half-time.
The visitors edged to within two points midway through the second half when Richie Fa'aoso crossed for a converted try.
But the Broncos responded with four unanswered tries through captain Sam Thaiday, Justin Hodges, Andrew McCullough and Josh Hoffman to seal the win.
The Broncos hold an 8-4 record to sit in second place behind Melbourne on 18 points.
The defeat leaves the Knights struggling on 10 points in 13th position with a 4-8 return from their 12 starts.
Thaiday admitted the Broncos were often their own worst enemy against the Knights.
"We made it very hard and we gave them a lot of penalties coming out of their end and we handed over a little bit of ball there," he told Grandstand.
"We let them back in the game, we should have kept the foot down and gone on with what we were doing there.
"So a little bit disappointed in letting in that many points, but we showed that if we could hang in there we could score some points on them."
The first 40 minutes could only be described as bizarre, Brisbane rushing on 24 straight points from four converted tries before the Knights replied with 18 points in a row from three converted tries of their own.
After winger Gerard Beale (fourth minute), centre Jack Reed (14th), Hodges (18th) and Dale Copley (21st) crossed in the space of 17 minutes, things were looking ugly for Knights coach Wayne Bennett.
But without warning, the match turned on its head.
The Knights suddenly switched on, piling on 18 points of their own with veteran hooker Danny Buderus scoring twice (27th and 35th minutes) and late inclusion Wes Naiqama getting across the line in the 32nd minute.
The Knights appeared to have levelled on the scoreboard when five-eighth Jarrod Mullen sprinted 80 metres to touch down under the posts.
But video referee Bernard Sutton correctly ruled Mullen was offside when he picked up the ball after it hit his leg and also rebounded off team-mate Chris Houston.
Newcastle full-back Darius Boyd, who had not scored in 11 match this season, crossed the line in the 50th minute but lost the ball in Peter Wallace's last-ditch tackle.
Fa'aoso try and the ensuring conversion from Naiqama saw the Knights trial 26-24 before the Broncos moved cleared with four tries to close out the match.
Broncos: 50 (Hodges (2), Beale, Reed, Copley, Thaiday, McCullough, Hoffman tries; C Parker 7 cons, Wallace con; Parker pen)
Knights: 24 (D Buderus (2), W Naiqama, R Fa'aoso tries; W Naiqama 4 cons)
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Tags: nrl, rugby-league, sport, brisbane-4000, newcastle-2300 First posted June 03, 2012 16:45:37
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