Holmes converts from touch
Galvin with a stray pass, Feldt cleans up and races 54m to score
Koroisau converts
Fainu leaps high, takes the Cowboys short drop out and charges over to score a brilliant try
Cowboys dropout
PENALTY TIGERS - They get a full set 35m from the Cowboys line
Robson gets across the Tigers line but he was held-up and then lost control of the ball.
Holmes fails to convert
Cowboys go right and send the ball through the hands to Drinkwater, who gets outside the defence and scores in the right corner
PENALTY TIGERS - 10m from their own line. And they fail to find touch. Oh dear.
Neame takes a crash ball to the Tigers line. He was stopped and fell to his back and then extended his arm sideways and planted the ball on the line. Bunker intervenes and rules double movement
PENALTY COWBOYS - 10m from the Tigers line
Bula with a break and races 50 metres downfield and links with Galvin who gets tackled from behind by Dearden. On the next play Papali'i drops the ball an inch from the Cowboys line
Koroisau from the right sideline slips after kicking and very nearly converts
Faataape gets 1 on 1 with Holmes, brushes him off and scores.
Set Restart Tigers
PENALTY TIGERS - 10m from the Cowboys line
PENALTY TIGERS - They find touch 10m shy of halfway
Koroisau from the sideline converts
Tigers not giving up the fight. Porter with a great bist up the middle and then another brilliant offload that leads to some brilliant passes resulting in a try in the corner to Alaimalo
Holmes from the left sideline with a perfect conversion
Holmes slices through on the left and scores in the corner
PENALTY COWBOYS - They find touch 10m shy of halfway
Holmes from in front adds the extras
Finefeuiaki flicks an offload inside to Drinkwater and he strolls over to score under the sticks. That was scary easy for the Tigers. No just the try but that whole set.
Holmes from the sideline converts
Holmes at dummy half in the left corner, runs infield and then passes back out to Taulagi, who had just played the ball, and the the winger scores.
Set restart Cowboys - 10m from the Tigers line
PENALTY COWBOYS - They find touch 20m from the Tigers line
Play stopped after Olam hit Luki hard and high with the shoulder. Ref has sent him off.
Holmes kicks the penalty goal
PENALTY COWBOYS - from the scrum the Tigers are offside. Cowboys taking a shot at goal
SCRUM COWBOYS - Cowboys looked certain to score from a Tigers kerfuffle when fielding a kick, as two Tigers got in each others way and knocked on. Then Holmes knocked on.
Koroisau from wide on the right side cannot add the extras
Tigers turn defence into attack. After Staines took an intercept to save a try, 2 tackles later, Porter gets a stunning offload away to Bula who explodes through the line and races 70 metres to score
Cowboys racing away through the middle and a final pass out to Feldt is intercepted by Staines
Second half gets going
Koroisau curls this conversion through the sticks
Bula hold the ball up on the left edge and then just slices through to score
Another Tigers set restart but they don't need it
Set restart Tigers - 5m from the Cowboys line
SCRUM TIGERS - 20m from the Cowboys line
Holmes from wide, nails the conversion
Draw and pass by Holmes and this was a training run. Taulagi scores a nonchalant try
PENALTY COWBOYS - Tigers with Obstruction while defending a kick. Cowboys with a full set inside the Tigers 20
PENALTY TIGERS - they find touch 3m shy of halfway
Holmes from the sideline converts
Drinkwater with a gentle grubber that pops up perfectly for Taulagi who scores in the left corner
Holmes converts
Robson links with Dearden and the five-eighth strolls through some feeble goal line defence to score
Cowboys now back on the Tigers line, get a set restart
Meanwhile Tigers halfback Latu Fainu is coming off for an HIA
Cowboys throught they had got a try through Taulagi but the ref went to the Bunker and they easily ruled obstruction
Cowboys get back-to-back set restarts
Tigers getting a few offloads away in the line already
SCRUM TIGERS - 10m from their own line. Long ball from Townsend fired out to Feldt, who was unmarked, however the pass was forward and Feldt knocked it on.
Challenge successful. Cowboys get a full set 20m from the Tigers line
Drop out Tigers. Tigers went short but the Tigers fail to bat it back, however the referee ruled it went into touch off the Cowboys. Cowboys challenge
PENALTY COWBOYS - They find touch 8m shy of halfway
Cowboys on the last opt to go with throwing a bucket of hot slop across the floor
Koroisau from out wide, hooks the kick.
Galvin holds up a lovely short ball for Samuela Fainu, who steps out of a tackle and scores on the right edge
PENALTY TIGERS - They find touch 5m inside the Cowboys half
SCRUM TIGERS - 10m from their own line
Nanai spills a crash ball at the Tigers line. Tigers survive.
Second tackle, Olam drops the ball 30m from the Tigers line. Oh dear.
Cowboys get this party started
Last 640 minutes between these two sides has produced 489 points: Cowboys 267 (5 wins) v Tigers 222 (3 wins) Also the Wests Tigers from since Round 1, 2022 - 12 wins from 67 games @ 17.91%. However, Tigers at Leichhardt Oval in the same period have 4 wins from 9 games @ 44.44%
Referees & scorers:
Referee: Chris Butler
Touch Judges: Chris Sutton, Drew Oultram
Video Referee: Ashley Klein
WESTS TIGERS (30)
Tries: Samuela Fainu (2), Jahream Bula (2), Solomon Alaimalo, Solomona Faataape
Field Goals:
Two Point Field Goals:
Conversions: Apisai Koroisau (3/6)
Penalty Goals:
NORTH QUEENSLAND COWBOYS (48)
Tries: Tom Dearden, Valentine Holmes, Murray Taulagi (3), Scott Drinkwater (2), Kyle Feldt
Field Goals:
Two Point Field Goals:
Conversions: Valentine Holmes (7/8)
Penalty Goals: Valentine Holmes (1/1)