Wests Tigers' run as NRL wooden spooners is surely over, after a last-minute Adam Doueihi field goal kicked the joint-venture to a 21-20 win over Gold Coast.
In a match that coach Benji Marshall labelled the club's worst game, the Tigers did enough to come back and seal it on Sunday afternoon at Leichhardt Oval.
Trailing by four points with four minutes left, the Tigers looked set to finish the round in equal-last on points as they battle to avoid a fourth-straight spoon.
But mid-season pick-up Taylan May first sent Jeral Skelton over for a crucial try, before Doueihi missed the conversion attempt from the sideline to take the lead.
A penalty for a Reagan Campbell-Gillard crusher tackle put the Tigers back on the attack, before Doueihi slotted the shot from 25 metres out with 15 seconds left.
The result piles more pressure on Titans coach Des Hasler, with Gold Coast now officially out of finals contention and alone in 17th place on the NRL ladder.
For the Tigers, the finals also look unlikely.
They would need to go undefeated though the final seven rounds to have any hope of snapping a 14-year drought.
But another spoon now at least appears out the window, up in 12th spot and four points clear of the Titans, with a bye still in hand.
"It's more frustrations around where we think we could have been, where we could be, and where we are," Marshall said.
"It was important to get the two points today. I don't want to say about how we got it, but we got it.
"If I'm being honest I thought today was our worst game. We didn't play anywhere near our standard of doing things.
"In the first half we were looking for things that weren't there, and it looked like our heads weren't on the job."
The Tigers made 14 errors and the Titans 12, while the hosts were also guilty of having their attack appear disjointed at times.
The bright spot for the Tigers was May, who scored one try and set up the team's other two in his first NRL game in 14 months.
Playing his first match since domestic-violence charges against him were dropped, May had the Tigers' first when his brother Terrell gave him space on the left.
He then put the Tigers up 12-4 when he combined with Jarome Luai to send Staines across, before the Titans mounted a late first-half comeback.
Phil Sami and Jaylan De Groot both crossed in quick succession, and Jayden Campbell had some nice moments in the halves.
But after losing Tino Fa'asuamaleaui, they too were their own worst enemies.
Nowhere was that more evident than in the second half with scores locked at 14-14, when they failed to pack a scrum in time and gifted the Tigers a penalty goal.
The result leaves the Titans dead last on 14 points, a win behind the rest of the competition and battling to avoid handing under-pressure Hasler his first spoon.
"We didn't need the scrum-clock (violation), I don't think it was the penalty count," Hasler said.
"It was a very disappointing second half. We go out and bumble, we fumble, we throw balls over the sideline and get carried over the sideline.
"We can't land on the bouncing ball. We miss tackles and complete nine from 15.
"I'm really disappointed with that performance. It was pretty dumb."
