Full Time
80:00
5:30pm Sat April 23, 2022
Round 7 - Queensland Country Bank Stadium, Townsville / Wulgurukaba - Crowd: 14547
79min

SCRUM TITANS - 35m from their own line

79min

Drinkwater drops the ball cold

78min

PENALTY COWBOYS - Brimson with a forward pass. Titans then get penalised for backchat

77min

Hiku hammers big Tino!

76min

PENALTY COWBOYS - Sexton runs an escort and denies the Cowboys a try. Cowboys will take the tap 10m from the Titans line

76min

Off to the bunker again

74min

SCRUM COWBOYS - 20m from their own line.

73min

Conversion: Cowboys
Kicked by Valentine Holmes.

Holmes adds another tricky conversion

Cowboys lead Cowboys 30 - 4 Titans
72min

Try: Cowboys
Scored by Heilum Luki. Kick to come.

Luki on a stepping, straightening run, gets caught by 2 defenders, but he keeps going forward. A third defender tries to stop him but he wrestles his arm free and manages to get to the line, where he falls over and scores a powerful try.

Cowboys lead Cowboys 28 - 4 Titans
69min

Penalty Goal: Cowboys
Kicked by Valentine Holmes.

Holmes from in front nails the gift 2

Cowboys lead Cowboys 24 - 4 Titans
68min

PENALTY COWBOYS - Escort penalty against the Titans

67min

SCRUM COWBOYS - Brimson's kick is average, his attempt to regather the loose ball is worse still.

67min

Taumalolo and Liu with a head clash and Taumalolo drops the ball after very briefly appearing to be switched off. He hasn't come from the field yet though. Proctor has come off which is good news for the Titans tonight,

66min

SCRUM TITANS - 10m shy of halfway

65min

Conversion: Cowboys
Kicked by Valentine Holmes.

Holmes from the right sideline nails the extras

Cowboys lead Cowboys 22 - 4 Titans
64min

Try: Cowboys
Scored by Jeremiah Nanai. Kick to come.

Townsend with a little chip over the defence, Nanai runs through, leaps, takes it cleanly and uncontested and he scores untouched.

Cowboys lead Cowboys 20 - 4 Titans
63min

Nanai back on the field

62min

SET RESTART COWBOYS - 15m from the Titans line

61min

PENALTY COWBOYS - Wallace with a good tackle but he hangs on for too long. Cowboys find touch 30m from the Titans line

60min

SCRUM COWBOYS - Fifita over runs the ball and leaves it behind in prime attacking territory.

55min

SCRUM TITANS - Cowboys with a short drop out, it doesn't go the distance but Feldt allows it to bounce and then miraculously keeps himself in the field of play before cleaning it up as it legally passes the 10m, but the touchie mistakenly put his flag up too early.

52min

Nanai with the softest sin binning in some time.

50min

SCRUM TITANS - Hess with a knock-on 10m from the Titans line.

49min

Kelly with another knock on. Cowboys get the ball back

48min

Townsend looked certain to score but somehow the ball flies forward out of his arms

45min

PENALTY COWBOYS - Titans give away yet another piggy back penalty.

44min

SCRUM COWBOYS - Townsend with his trademark high slap missed tackle effort, produces a knock on from Brimson.

43min

PENALTY TITANS - They now have a full set inside the Cowboys 10m

40min

Cowboys get the second half started

39min

SCRUM COWBOYS - Will Smith very forward with that pass,

38min

Clark tries to barge his way over for a try but unable to get the ball down for a try.

38min

Bunker looking at a possible try to the Titans

37min

SCRUM TITANS - they will have a full set 10m from the Cowboys line

35min

Conversion: Cowboys
Attempted by Valentine Holmes.

Holmes very narrowly misses the conversion attempt from touch.

Cowboys lead Cowboys 16 - 4 Titans
33min

Try: Cowboys
Scored by Scott Drinkwater. Kick to come.

SCRUM COWBOYS - Drinkwater picks up the ball from the back of the scrum, 30m from the Titans line, he runs left, gets outside Fifita and then slices through the gap to score in the corner.

Cowboys lead Cowboys 16 - 4 Titans
32min

Lisone loses the ball in the tackle.

31min

SCRUM TITANS - Nanai looses the ball in the heavy tackle, 10m from the Titans line.

30min

Kelly has just managed to force the ball in his own in-goal. Drop out Titans.

29min

Kelly with another fumble and it could lead to a Nanai try. Off to the bunker

28min

SCRUM COWBOYS - Titans throwing stupid pressure passes inside their own half and eventually Kelly knocks it on. Titans challenging. Challenge fails

27min

PENALTY TITANS - Cowboys with some good line passing create a brief overlap and that's all Feldt needs to score in the right corner. Bunker having a look at some obstruction. Try denied.

25min

SCRUM COWBOYS - Proctor with another turnover. He's having a good game for the Cowboys tonight

22min

Conversion: Cowboys
Kicked by Valentine Holmes.

Holmes from the left sideline nails the conversion

Cowboys lead Cowboys 12 - 4 Titans
22min

Try: Cowboys
Scored by Murray Taulagi. Kick to come.

Drinkwater with a rushed grubber on the shortside in the line, it ricochets and Taulagi regathers and dives down low and over the line to score.

Cowboys lead Cowboys 10 - 4 Titans
20min

Fifita picks up Holmes and buried him hard!

18min

Conversion: Titans
Attempted by Toby Sexton.

Sexton fails to convert

Cowboys lead Cowboys 6 - 4 Titans
16min

Try: Titans
Scored by Jamayne Isaako. Kick to come.

Titans spread the ball right to Fifita who shrugs off Holmes who rushed up to try and shut down the play. Fifita then drew Taulagi before putting Isaako over for a try.

Cowboys lead Cowboys 6 - 4 Titans
15min

PENALTY TITANS - Taumalolo with a late block on Brimson

13min

SCRUM TITANS - Nanai hit a bit high in the tackle and then loses the ball as he falls to the ground. Titans start their set on halfway.

12min

Poor Hiku got buried at the start of the set and then had the ball stripped off him at the end of it.

11min

Kelly performs a 1 on 1 strip

8min

Conversion: Cowboys
Kicked by Valentine Holmes.

Holmes from out on the left side, just slips the ball between the sticks.

Cowboys lead Cowboys 6 - 0 Titans
7min

Try: Cowboys
Scored by Tom Dearden. Kick to come.

Holmes uses his footwork and speed to get outside Fifita and also draw in Marzhew before getting a good ball to Taulagi in space, before he sends a good ball back inside to Dearden in support who races 20m to score.

Cowboys lead Cowboys 4 - 0 Titans
5min

PENALTY COWBOYS - Proctor giving away another penalty

3min

Drinkwater, on the last, 30m from the Titans line, kicks it out on the full by plenty.

PENALTY COWBOYS - High tackle by Proctor, accidentally. Cowboys find touch 10m shy of halfway

Titans get us underway

Referees & scorers:

Referee: Chris Butler

Touch Judges: Wyatt Raymond, Michael Wise

Video Referee: Grant Atkins

NORTH QUEENSLAND COWBOYS (30)
Tries: Tom Dearden, Murray Taulagi, Scott Drinkwater, Jeremiah Nanai, Heilum Luki
Conversions: Valentine Holmes (4/5)
Penalty Goals: Valentine Holmes (1/1)

GOLD COAST TITANS (4)
Tries: Jamayne Isaako
Conversions: Toby Sexton (0/1)