Broncos fans were left raging after a highly controversial decision in their 35-31 defeat to the Cowboys.<\/p>\n
The reigning premiers led 30-24 with 15 minutes remaining and thought they had extended their lead to 10 points when Tom Chester appeared to drop a kick which allowed Brendan Piakura to steal in and score.<\/p>\n
But after the decision was reviewed by the Bunker, they applied the disruptor rule and disallowed the try.<\/p>\n
The disruptor rule penalises attacking players who chase kicks but interfere with the catcher without making a genuine attempt to catch the ball themselves.<\/p>\n
That was not how many of the Broncos fans inside the Suncorp Stadium saw the decision in question as boos rang around the ground.<\/p>\n
To add insult to injury, Chester scored at the other end moments later \u2014 and the conversion levelled up the scores.<\/p>\n
Scott Drinkwater then kicked a drop goal to hand the Cowboys the lead with three minutes left on the clock, before Heilum Luki went over in the final seconds to seal the victory.<\/p>\n
The result was a bitter one to take for Broncos supporters given the controversial nature of Piakura\u2019s disallowed try.<\/p>\n
And the fans were quick to vent their frustration on social media as their side suffered a third defeat of the season.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Bestsuperver said: \u201cYou can thank the f***ing video ref for that (result)\u2026. The worst I have seen for quite a while.\u201d<\/p>\n
JackA121212 reacted: \u201cBroncos should have been up by 12 with ten to go.\u201d<\/p>\n
JoshorJoash added: \u201cWhat was the whole point of this new disruptor rule again? What a f***ing s***show.\u201d<\/p>\n
And Mike Bromley said: \u201cAbsolutely robbed well done boys. Disgraceful video referee.\u201d<\/p>\n
The result leaves the Broncos down in 10th with three wins and three defeats from their opening six games.<\/p>\n
The Cowboys move up to fourth, two points adrift of early pacesetters, the Panthers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broncos fans were left raging after a highly controversial decision in their 35-31 defeat to the Cowboys. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-598523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}