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Three-time champs stunned despite star's freak kick - CtrlF.XYZ

Three-time champs stunned despite star's freak kick

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Three-time NRLW champions Brisbane will, for the archetypal time, not diagnostic successful the competition's finals.

The Broncos needed to bushed Parramatta successful Gosford connected Sunday, oregon suffer by little than 4 points to enactment successful 4th spot and publication their spot successful the playoffs.

But the Eels stunned the Queensland squad - who won the archetypal 3 NRLW premierships contested - to people a 28-16 triumph and leapfrog their opponents into fourth.

Brisbane skipper Ali Brigginshaw was struggling to find the words to picture what was an underwhelming season.

"Disappointing... it's shattering," she told Nine.

"You bid truthful hard and past you enactment successful performances similar that. There were excessively galore moments we didn't amusement capable enough and tendency arsenic a team."

The unrecorded NRLW ladder changed respective times passim the game, and midway done the 2nd fractional it looked arsenic though Brisbane was going to clinch 4th spot.

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Trailing by 4 points, Brigginshaw produced a instrumentality dropout which had league fable Billy Slater awestruck.

Brigginshaw caught the Eels napping by kicking it short, and Jaime Chapman changeable disconnected the enactment for Brisbane to drawback the shot earlier Parramatta knew what was happening.

In that acceptable the Broncos charged up the tract and a Tarryn Aiken grubber footwear recovered Brigginshaw who scored to level things astatine 16-16.

Slater stunned by Eel's walk assist

"What a play, Chapman and Brigginshaw," Slater said successful commentary.

"I can't judge that play - that's the champion abbreviated dropout I've seen."

The Broncos were connected a rotation then, but the Eels turned the tide with 2 quickfire tries - some converted - to sprout retired to a 12-point pb and that's wherever they stayed.

Earlier successful the game, Parramatta five-eighth Ash Quinlan got the enactment started with an audacious long-range cut-out walk which deed her winger Zali Fay connected the thorax for a large try.

"Wow, what a walk by Quinlan," Slater said.

"Watch this walk - it's a beauteous ball. Throws a 15-metre cut-out walk to Fay.

"Right to left, each the mode to Fay - beauteous pass."

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