Gutherson stars as Dragons fight back to stun Broncos in Brisbane
The Dragons, inspired by their fullback, scored two second-half tries when they were down to 12 men to leave them on the cusp of the eight with 10 points.
It was the Broncos' third successive loss, and their fifth in six games, as the pressure mounts on coach Michael Maguire.
'We're a real Jekyll and Hyde team, we show such great stuff and then go the other way,' Maguire said.
The Dragons, who lost rising forward Dylan Egan to a suspected ACL injury in the fourth minute, held on in a frenetic final minutes that would have had fans watching from behind their fingers, having seen their side lose three games already this season by one point, including last week's heartbreaking loss to the Warriors.
'I was saying to myself, 'Surely this can't happen to us again', but there must be some football god out there,' a relieved Dragons coach Shane Flanagan said after the match.
'In the last couple of minutes we just put ourselves under an enormous amount of pressure. It was great spirit – great club spirit and great team spirit – that got us home.'
As for Egan, the coach said: 'First signs are that it looks like [an ACL].'
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