Eels Down Broncos 21-14
With scores locked 14-14 at Parramatta Stadium, Burt stepped up to nail a 35m field goal under intense pressure after Broncos skipper Darren Lockyer had earlier slipped during his 35m effort.
Eels five-eighth Daniel Mortimer then sealed the result in the 79th minute when he sliced through to score next to the posts to the delight of the 10,030 fans.
It was a brilliant win by the Eels, after they led 8-4 at half time by producing some razzle dazzle football with tries to Eric Grothe and Joel Reddy.
Grothe scored off a sweeping backline play in the 23rd minute, then set up Reddy four minutes later as he brushed off four defenders before giving his centre a 40m run to the tryline.
Broncos centre Steve Michaels scored for the visitors in the 33rd minute against the run of play after an error by the Eels early in their tackle count.
Eels centre Krisnan Inu scored a 90m intercept try seven minutes after the break when he snatched a Darren Lockyer pass from the air.
The Broncos responded with a try to hooker Andrew McCullough before Michaels added his second in the 63rd minute to level scores at 14-14.
The Eels had three genuine tryscoring opportunities in the final 15 minutes, fullback Jarryd Hayne pulled down by Antonio Winterstein after a 70m break and then by Lockyer four minutes later with the tryline beckoning.
Prop Fuifui Moimoi made a bust inside his own half but then refused to pass to an unmarked Mortimer and tried to trample over Karmichael Hunt but was brought to the ground.
In the end Moimoi's mistake didn't matter as the Eels claimed their fifth win of the season. They remain in 12th position but are now only three points outside the top eight.
It is the fourth straight defeat for the Broncos and has seen Brisbane drop outside the top eight for the first time in 2009.
Adding further misery to Brisbane's mid-season slump is a medial ligament knee injury to prop Nick Kenny and ankle complaint for star fullback Karmichael Hunt.
Kenny limped from the field early in just the 11th minute after a heavy three-man tackle from Nathan Hindmarsh, Nathan Cayless and Tim Mannah.
Hunt sustained an ankle injury after a collision with Mannah in just the third minute, but played out the entire game following a pain-killing injection at half time.
Dragons Win Eases Creagh's Pain
Creagh, by his own admission, produced an Origin II shocker as the Blues capitulated to hand Queensland a fourth-straight series win, Creagh left lamenting several costly errors including the one which led to Darren Lockyer's embarrassing four-pointer.
The clash with the Tigers couldn't come soon enough for Creagh, and he didn't disappoint as he terrorised the home side's right-edge defence in a Herculean 80-minute performance.
"I was very disappointed after Wednesday night's performance - both personally and for the team," Creagh said after the Dragons fifth win from their last six starts.
"It was good to come back here to the club, back with your mates and have a good hit-out.
"It was really hard dealing with the loss, my second time playing for NSW and I didn't have my best game - I played really bad actually.
"Losing the series, it was pretty tough after the game on Wednesday night and pretty tough yesterday.
"Today wasn't too bad because there was a game on ... it was just so good to come back here and get a game under the belt and get the two points, it's what I needed."
Of his Origin II performance, Creagh said the nightmare was ongoing.
"I couldn't hold onto the ball a few times," he said.
"I was just replaying things in my head that I did wrong - the Lockyer try and not being able to grab the ball, dropping a pass from Baz (Trent Barrett), just little stuff like that you can't do in Origin and I don't do in club footy."
Much of the speculation after Origin II has centred on the future of NSW coach Craig Bellamy, but Creagh said the grand-final winning coach was not to blame for the side's failings.
"I didn't read a paper, I didn't watch the news or anything after the game because I knew what it would all be about," he said.
"It definitely wasn't Bellyache's fault, he's a great coach ... he prepared us so well during the week, he covers every base.
"We just really let ourselves down that first 20 minutes and you can't play catch-up footy in Origin."
Creagh's NSW teammates Michael Weyman (ankle) and Justin Poore (knee) both failed to return after limping from the field against the Tigers, but Dragons coach Wayne Bennett said neither was a concern.
"(Weyman) came into the game with a swollen ankle from Wednesday night and he just aggravated it - we got 20 minutes out of him and that's probably what we were hoping for," Bennett said.
"Poore was just exhausted - I played him all the first half and it was an enormous effort from
NRL Results and Standings-Round 16
ST GEORGE ILLAWARRA 21 (B Creagh B Hornby B Morris W Sailor tries J Soward 2 goals J Soward field goal) bt WESTS TIGERS 10 (B Marshall B Ryan tries B Marshall goal) at Sydney Football Stadium. Referee: Tony De Las Heras, Jason Robinson. Crowd: 15,211.
BULLDOGS 30 (B Goodwin 2 G Eastwood J Morris L Patten tries H El Masri 5 goals) bt NORTH QUEENSLAND 18 (A Payne A Watts J Williams tries J Thurston 3 goals) at ANZ Stadium. Referee: Jared Maxwell, Bernard Sutton. Crowd: 13,461.
GOLD COAST 28 (K Gordon 2 D Moore 2 A Laffranchi tries S Prince 4 goals) bt NZ WARRIORS 12 (L Brown L Hohaia tries K Locke 2 goals) at Skilled Park. Referee: Ben Cummins, Alan Shortall. Crowd: 20,031.
SYDNEY ROOSTERS 19 (S Kenny-Dowall M Pearce S Perrett tries C Fitzgibbon 3 goals M Pearce field goal) bt CRONULLA 12 (B Ferguson N Stapleton tries L Covell 2 goals) at Sydney Football Stadium. Referee: Chris James, Ashley Klein. Crowd: 7,472.
CANBERRA 26 (J Carney 2 J Monaghan 2 B Harrison tries T Campese 3 goals) bt MELBOURNE 16 (W Chambers G Inglis C Smith tries C Smith 2 goals) at Canberra Stadium. Referee: Gavin Badger, Brett Suttor. Crowd: 9,551.
PARRAMATTA 21 (E Grothe K Inu D Mortimer J Reddy tries L Burt 2 goals L Burt field goal) bt BRISBANE 14 (S Michaels 2 A McCullough tries C Parker goal) at Parramatta Stadium. Referee: Tony Archer, Matt Cecchin. Crowd: 10,030.
Bye - Manly, Penrith
NRL Ladder P W D L B PF PA PD Pts
1 St George Illawarra 15 11 0 4 1 329 200 129 24
2 +Bulldogs 14 11 0 3 2 363 244 119 24
3 Gold Coast 14 10 0 4 2 288 250 38 24
4 Melbourne 15 9 1 5 1 311 222 89 21
5 North Queensland 15 8 0 7 1 378 284 94 18
6 *Newcastle 14 8 0 6 1 293 265 28 18
7 Manly 14 7 0 7 2 276 250 26 18
8 Penrith 14 7 0 7 2 302 277 25 18
9 Brisbane 15 8 0 7 1 315 362 -47 18
10 *South Sydney 13 5 1 7 2 261 286 -25 15
11 NZ Warriors 14 5 1 8 2 215 274 -59 15
12 Parramatta 14 5 1 8 2 201 320 -119 15
13 Canberra 14 5 0 9 2 273 312 -39 14
14 Cronulla 15 5 0 10 1 249 302 -53 12
15 Wests Tigers 15 5 0 10 1 277 333 -56 12
16 Sydney Roosters 15 4 0 11 1 250 400 -150 10
*(denotes teams yet to play)
+ Bulldogs deducted 2 points for fielding ineligible player.
Top point scorers (tries, goals, field goals, points):
Hazem El Masri (Bulldogs) 9 56 - 148
Johnathan Thurston (North Qld) 6 55 - 134
Jamie Soward (StGeo Illa) 6 53 3 133
Corey Parker (Brisbane) 2 41 - 90
Luke Covell (Cronulla) 4 36 - 88
Scott Prince (Gold Coast) 3 37 - 86
Kurt Gidley (Newcastle) 1 40 - 84
Benji Marshall (Tigers) 2 32 - 72
Jamie Lyon (Manly) 8 19 - 70
Luke Burt (Parramatta) 4 25 1 67
Top try scorers:
Bryson Goodwin (Bulldogs) 14
Brett Morris (StGeo Illa) 13
Taniela Tuiaki (Tigers) 11
Israel Folau (Brisbane) 11
Antonio Winterstein (Brisbane) 9
Hazem El Masri (Bulldogs) 9
Josh Morris (Bulldogs) 9
Jarryd Hayne (Parramatta) 9
Shaun Kenny-Dowall (Roosters) 9
Fetuli Talanoa (Souths) 9
Nathan Merritt (Souths) 9
