Match Details
Match Date	23rd Apr, 2016
Opponent	Gold Coast Titans
Result	Win 21-20
Coach	Des Hasler
Captain	James Graham
Venue	Homebush (ANZ Stadium)
Crowd	11,450
Referee	Ashley Klein Chris James

You never quite know whether Dr Jekyll or Mr Hyde is about to turn up when it comes to Josh Reynolds: blindingly good one minute and maddeningly mediocre the next.

The licorice all-sorts that was Reynolds provided three try assists – including the match leveller for the Titans – a couple of bone-jarring tackles in defence, a customary referee spray and wobbly kicks.

Oh, and the winning field goal in golden point just for good measure.

It was all part of the roller coaster that is jack-in-a-box Josh, the unlikely hero of the Bulldogs’ baffling 21-20 win over a stubborn Gold Coast at ANZ Stadium on Saturday.

No wonder Laurie Daley is pulling his locks out trying to figure out NSW’s halves when Reynolds can go from hero to villain and back in the blink of an eye.

‘‘[Reynolds] would have been very lonely out there at one stage, but he held it together and came up with the big play,’’ Bulldogs coach Des Hasler said of his five-eighth’s heroics as time ticked down on the first half of golden point.

Only 15 minutes earlier, Reynolds – after laying on a try either side of half-time for Sam Perrett and fellow NSW hopeful Josh Jackson with contrasting passes – had batted a Moses Mbye bomb backwards and into the path of Josh Hoffman. The Titans jet raced 75 metres to score as the Bulldogs frittered away a 12-point lead.

The NRL’s biggest mystery this season was writing another chapter not many would have thought possible. But as both sides botched one point attempts before and after fulltime, Reynolds calmly iced the game for rugby league’s ultimate head scratchers.

Consistently inconsistent is the best way to put their season so far. They’ve traded wins and losses on alternate weeks since round two. Parramatta will be primed to preserve that streak on Friday.

Asked why his side has been so topsy turvy this year, Hasler said: ‘‘It’s a very good question. That’s what we’re working on.’’

But the ‘‘Mad Scientist’’ recognises the problem.

‘‘I said to them at half-time there’s three sides out there today,’’ Hasler said. ‘‘The Titans playing us, us playing the Titans and we were bashing ourselves up a couple of times.

‘‘We very nearly paid a heavy penalty for not closing the game out this week. I don’t think we’ll get away so lightly [against Parramatta].’’

For all the double-figure leads they’ve surrendered in recent weeks, Neil Henry’s Titans just don’t seem to know when they’re beaten.

But as the coach knows only too well, wins are the only currency his caper deals in.

‘‘The boys can hold their heads up high with that performance,’’ Henry said. ‘‘[But] at the end of the day we haven’t got two competition points and we’ve had four losses on the trot.’’

Having slumped to a 14-8 deficit at the break after the Bulldogs back three of Perrett, Curtis Rona and Will Hopoate all touched down, the Titans were rejuvenated once Greg Bird returned from a second-half concussion test.

Source: The Sun Herald

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