Bunker officials Steve Clark and Ben Galea have been dropped by the NRL for incorrectly awarding a try to Cronulla's Jack Williams in his side's 4-point victory over the Dragons on Saturday night.
The Bunker failed to see Dragons fullback Matt Dufty grounding the loose ball in his own in-goal area, instead awarding the four points to Williams who had gotten his hand to the ball a fraction of a second later.
An important game for both sides' hopes for a finals berth, the controversial ruling became a point of intense conjecture given how close the final result was.
Both Dufty and besieged coach Paul McGregor were furious after the conclusion of the match, leading to a swift response from the NRL's head of football Graham Anneseley who announced that Jared Maxwell and Bryan Norrie would replace Clark and Galea for Sunday's Titans-Panthers clash.
"The bunker decision to award a try to Jack Williams in tonight's Sharks-Dragons game was incorrect. Steve Clark and Ben Galea were due to officiate again tomorrow in the Titans-Panthers game as bunker officials," Annesley said.
"They have now been relegated, and will be replaced by Jared Maxwell and Brian Norrie."
Dufty also claimed post-match that he had tried to use his side's captain's challenge in order to overturn the call, but was told by on-field referee Grant Atkins that it could not be used in those circumstances.
"The boys asked me when it went to video ref, 'did you get it down' and I said '100 per cent I got it down'," Dufty said.
"I haven't seen it but the coach told me after the game that I had grounded it first and I said that I thought I did.
"Even after they awarded the try I was pretty shocked. I asked if we could challenge it but he said it was the video ref."
McGregor, meanwhile, could not contain his disdain for the decision in his post-match press conference.
"It was pretty clear, right," McGregror told reporters after the match.
"How do they keep getting it wrong and who's accountable for it because it's a stuff up and in the end, there's the difference?
"All you guys should make a song and dance and do something about it because it's not good enough."
Sharks coach John Morris, meanwhile, was adamant that the decision did not decide the game given the fact that it was made just nine minutes into the contest.
"What goes around comes around in this game and at the end of an 80-minute game like that, I don't think the Jack Williams try, if it was proven to be no try, was such a huge play," Morris said.