Townsend slots the field goal and the Cowboys win
They followed it up with a good set and march downfield
Good opening defensive set by the Cowboys
Cowboys kick off Golden Point
Did you say you wanted more of this? No? Well good news...we're off to Golden Point!
Holmes has a crack at field goal from 45 metres out and it had the legs but it was just right of the mark
Robson executes a strip on Marzhew 15m inside the Cowboys half
Dearden went to the line and attempted to kick the ball but forgot to do the kick bit and just dropped it. Knights start their set on halfway
Holmes from almost in front, to give the Cowboys the lead for the first time today, and he missed it.
Townsend finally puts in a useful kick, a little grubber and Nanai cleans it up and scores with not a solitary Knights player in sight.
Cowboys get a fresh set 10m shy of halfway
Dearden's kick is poor and Gamble takes it on the full in his own ingoal.
Holmes cuts inside and very nearly gets to the Knights line
PENALTY KNIGHTS - They find touch 20m from their own line
Off to the Bunker. Holmes has scored but ref wants to check for obstruction.
Set restart Cowboys
Fresh set for the Cowboys
First play from the scrum, the Cowboys go to the left and Holmes' pass for Taulagi is batted into touch by Jenkins
SCRUM COWBOYS - 30m from the Knights line
Valentine Ponga coughs it up cold
Gagai with a line break
Holmes from out wide and converts
Dearden close to the line, runs onto a crash ball at first receiver, 5m from the Knights line and he gets a try.
PENALTY COWBOYS - Townsend puts this one into touch, for a change.
SCRUM COWBOYS - Ponga pinged for a knock-on. Knights challenge and it fails. 25m from the Cowboys line
Kulikefu Finefeuiaki gets crunched and spills the ball 10m shy of halfway
Another ineffective kick at the end of the set by the Cowboys, this time by Robson. Ponga cleans up.
Ponga with a short drop-out but it travels about 6 metres
Off to the bunker. Gagai offloads back into his own ingoal as he's being pushed into touch. Cogger falls on the loose ball and grounds it just before the Cowboys scored
Townsend puts in a grubber close to the Knights line for no -one and Ponga cleans up
Ponga with a shot at Penalty goal, and he collects 2 more points
PENALTY KNIGHTS - Challenge inconclusive. Cowboys keep their challenge.
Cowboys with a drop out - they go short and its ruled that Nanai caught it before it travelled 10m. Cowboys challenging
Holmes with ANOTHER knock on.
Ponga from the left sideline nails the conversion
Elliot on the last kicks 5m from the Cowboys line but it is blocked by the Cowboys defence and pops back up and into the hands of Hastings who then delicately grubbers out to Marzhew who cleans up the loose ball and dives over to score in the corner
SCRUM KNIGHTS - Daniel Saifiti comes in and put a big hit on some old small bloke and forces a turnover.
Holmes fails to convert from the sideline
Kyle Feldt receives a beautiful cut out pass from Drinkwater and he scores untouched in the corner
Set Restart Cowboys
PENALTY COWBOYS - after the restart
Holmes from the sideline nails the conversion
A Cowboys bomb is dropped by Marzhew and cleaned up by Feldt, who passes to the unmarked Townsend who dives over to score
Cowboys get their nightmare back underway
Hastings has a crack at a hurried 2 point field goal but its well off
PENALTY COWBOYS - And Townsend fails to put it into touch AGAIN!
Ponga converts
A lovely short ball by Hetherington at dummy half to the lead running Elliot who hits a gap on the Cowboys line and he scores under the posts
SCRUM KNIGHTS - 10m from the Cowboys line
Set restart Knights, 25m from the Cowboys line
Knights get the ball back from the drop out
A Cowboys kick into the Knights in goal, 17 blokes stand around watching it like it a firework. Hasting grounds the ball. Knights drop out
PENALTY COWBOYS - Ponga spots a huge gap and runs throw it then stops to get tackled because he realises that he took advantage of an obstruction.
Set Restart Knights
Holmes drops the ball cold again. Knights get the ball 35m out from the Cowboys line
Gamble with a grubber that goes dead in the Cowboys ingoal but nothing...
PENALTY KNIGHTS - Dearden off-side. No try.
Dearden has gone over for a try but there's plenty to look at here because, as you could imagine, this is a mess.
SCRUM KNIGHTS - Drinkwater sends a long ball out to Feldt but it's forward.
Set Restart Cowboys 40m from the Knights line
PENALTY COWBOYS - They find touch 25m from their own line
Elliott attempts an offload but somehow loses it forward over his head.
Frizell gets across the line but he's held up
Set restart Knights - on the last tackle and 2m from the Cowboys line
PENALTY KNIGHTS - They find touch 10m inside the Cowboys half
And on the first tackle Marzhew with a good tackle, forces a Cowboys knock-on
PENALTY COWBOYS - Taumalolo on the second tackle has the ball illegally stripped. They find touch 30m from the Knights line
PENALTY COWBOYS - Knights offside. They find touch 9m shy of halfway
Tyson Fumble. SCRUM COWBOYS - 20m from their own line
SCRUM KNIGHTS - Cowboys with a forward pass, 10m inside the Knights half
Ponga from in front adds the extras
Adam Elliott breaks out of a tackle, fends off a cover defender and then races 25 metres to score under the posts
Set restart Knights
Knights with a short drop out, the Cowboys touch it as it goes dead. Knights get the ball back 20m from their own line
Holmes fails to kick the penalty goal from the difficult angle of almost in front.
PENALTY COWBOYS - sloppy high tackle
Taulagi took a clean intercept but then he lost the ball over the sideline as soon as Ponga got a hand on him.
Ponga almost sneaks through on the left, but then he sent a pass out to Marzhew, but it bounced. Marzhew almost got through the defence but offloaded and his pass was touched by the Cowboys and went into touch
Set Restart Knights - late in the set and 10m from the Cowboys line
Holmes drops it cold on halfway and the Knights are in good areas now
Gamble looks at Townsend and says, hold my beer. He kicks down field and the ball bounces into touch, also achieving nothing.
Townsend puts in a kick that is designed to achieve nothing and it delivers as it bounces into touch 5m from the Knights line
PENALTY COWBOYS - but they fail to find touch because Kalyn Ponga did some Houdini stuff to bat the ball back into the field of play
PENALTY KNIGHTS - They find touch on halfway
Knights kick off
Referees & scorers:
Referee: Adam Gee
Touch Judges: Belinda Sharpe, Michael Wise
Video Referee: Liam Kennedy
NORTH QUEENSLAND COWBOYS (21)
Tries: Kyle Feldt, Chad Townsend, Tom Dearden, Jeremiah Nanai
Field Goals: Chad Townsend (1/1)
Conversions: Valentine Holmes (2/4)
Penalty Goals: Valentine Holmes (0/1)
NEWCASTLE KNIGHTS (20)
Tries: Adam Elliott (2), Greg Marzhew
Conversions: Kalyn Ponga (3/3)
Penalty Goals: Kalyn Ponga (1/1)