Coach Todd Payten was a happy man following North Queensland's home 36-16 home win over Newcastle but he's called for more consistency from the NRL's bunker after his side had a contentious second-half try overturned.
Co-captain Jason Taumalolo thought he'd scored in the 65th minute when he looped behind a decoy run by Jeremiah Nanai to crash through Phoenix Crossland one-on-one and roll over the try line.
But in the build-up Nanai and Lachlan Fitzgibbon had collided, with the Bunker ruling the Cowboys' back-rower initiated contact with Fitzgibbon which gained them an advantage.
"Well that's Lachlan Fitzgibbon coming in, that's a defensive read," Fox Sports' Michael Ennis noted in the broadcast.
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"You can see in the eyes of Fitzgibbon he was coming in to make the stop, he came out of the line."
"Really disappointed it was taken off us. It's just consistently ruled too inconsistent," Payten said of the NRL's video referee.
"The language that the Bunker used was also confusing. To say that Jeremiah initiated contact and I think it was Fitzgibbon that jammed on outside in, and made good contact with his inside shoulder and deviated three four metres off the line.
"That's why I'm so confused and it's just different from game to game and that's what I don't like."
Payten added the Bunker was there to make the right decisions and his side weren't "just getting enough of them."
The Bunker is the NRL's centralised facility where the live in-game decision review process will be conducted in season. The Bunker, which has 57 monitors, is located at Australian Technology Park in Eveleigh, Sydney. Bunker officials are able to review footage and rule on point scoring plays and reportable foul play.
Payten’s comments come after Canberra coach Ricky Stuart called on Thursday for the Bunker to be scrapped after he believed it cost his side a win over the Warriors in round eight.
Stuart told reporters the bunker was "getting it so wrong" and should only adjudicate on potential tries after a late penalty against his side allowed the Warriors to even the scores late, before they won with a golden point.
"I believe the bunker is damaging our game, I don't believe we do need the bunker because they can't get it right," he said.
"I really believe the bunker is getting it so wrong we need to have the bunker only involved in contentious tries."
Down 16-12 at the break, the Cowboys scored four unanswered tries in the second spell as Chad Townsend played provider to kick them back up to third on the NRL ladder.
Coach Todd Payten admitted his side didn't get their game right in the first half which led to uncharacteristic errors.
But coming out revamped and focused after the break, they found the line twice in back-to-back sets with the first coming through a Townsend kick to Murray Taualagi, before Valentine Holmes combined with the winger to bag one for himself.
Another Townsend kick was spilled by Enari Tuala in the 58th minute and young gun Jeremiah Nanai was the beneficiary, pouncing and stepping two defenders to score the Cowboys' fifth try.
The 19-year-old Nanai's impressive season continues, the competition's top try-scoring forward with seven.
Sydney Roosters captain James Tedesco reached a century of NRL tries as the Tricolours heaped more misery on struggling Gold Coast with a 44-16 win in Mackay.
The Roosters fullback scored a hat-trick and made 10 tackle breaks on his way to 226 running metres in the eight tries to three victory at BB Print Stadium on Saturday.
Wingers Daniel Tupou and Joseph Suaalii also scored doubles as the Roosters ended a two-game losing run in emphatic fashion.
Tom Trbojevic has been upstaged on his return to the NRL by younger brother Ben who scored a brace in Manly's 36-22 win over Wests Tigers.
Making a late change on gameday from centre to the back row, the youngest Trbojevic grabbed a try either side of the break in his seventh game at NRL level.
The match was the first in which eldest brother Jake, Tom and 20-year-old Ben have played at 4Pines Park together.
Importantly for the Sea Eagles and NSW Blues coach Brad Fittler, Tom got through a full 80 minutes with a heavily-strapped knee after spending the last month on the sideline and finished the afternoon with two try assists and 198 running metres.
"It was a game Benny will remember for a long time," Manly coach Des Hasler said.
"It was a late change for him moving from centre into the back row.
"He'll get an enormous amount of confidence out of today. I'm very happy and proud of him.
"It was great to see Tom get through today and he'll be much better for today's run."
Manly Sea Eagles 36 (Ben Trbojevic 2, Reuben Garrick 2, Christian Tuipulotu, Daly Cherry-Evans, Josh Aloiai tries; Garrick 4 goals) Wests Tigers 22 (Luke Garner, Tyrone Peachey, Oliver Gildart tries; Joe Ofahengaue tries; Jackson Hastings 4 goals). HT: 14-0.
Sydney Roosters 44 (James Tedesco 3, Joseph Suaalii 2, Siosiua Taukeiaho, Daniel Tupou tries; Sam Walker 5 goals, Paul Momirovski goal) Gold Coast Titans 16 (Beau Fermor, Sam Lisone, Herman Ese’ese tries; Toby Sexton 2 goals). HT: 24-10.
North Queensland Cowboys 36 (Tom Dearden, Kyle Feldt, Murray Taulagi, Valentine Holmes, Jeremiah Nanai, Heilum Luki tries; Holmes 6 goals) Newcastle Knights 16 (Dominic Young, Jacob Saifiti, Chris Randall tries; Kalyn Ponga 2 goals). HT: 12-16.