Match Discussion: Round 20 vs Cowboys @ 1300SMILES Stadium

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NRL 2016 - Round 20
North Queensland Cowboys v Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
1300SMILES Stadium, Townsville (TICKETS)
Thursday 21 July 2016

Gates 4:45pm / Aaron Payne Cup Final 5pm / NRL 7:50pm

1. Lachlan Coote 2. Javid Bowen 3. Justin O'Neill 4. Kane Linnett 5. Antonio Winterstein 6. Michael Morgan 7. Johnathan Thurston 8. Matthew Scott 9. Jake Granville 10. James Tamou 11. Gavin Cooper 12. Ethan Lowe 13. Jason Taumalolo
Interchange: 14. Rory Kostjasyn 15. John Asiata 16. Scott Bolton 17. Ben Hannant

1. William Hopoate 2. Brett Morris 3. Josh Morris 4. Curtis Rona 5. Sam Perrett 6. Josh Reynolds 7. Moses Mbye 8. Aiden Tolman 9. Michael Lichaa 10. James Graham 11. Josh Jackson 12. Greg Eastwood 13. David Klemmer
Interchange: 14. Sam Kasiano 16. Tim Browne 17. Raymond Faitala-Mariner 19. Danny Fualalo

Referees: Jared Maxwell, Gavin Reynolds
Sideline Officials: Ricky MacFarlane, Tim Roby
Video Referees: Bernard Sutton, Luke Patten, Steve Chiddy

U20's NYC
Cowboys v Bulldogs @ Jack Manski Oval, Sat 3:30pm

ISC QLD (Country Week)
Townsville v Capras @ Alec Inch Oval, Mt Isa, Sat 4pm
Mackay v Wynnum @ Darryl Bourke Oval, Moranbah, Sat 5:30pm
Redcliffe v Pride @ Ravenshoe, Sun 2pm

ISP NSW
Illawarra v Canterbury @ WIN Stadium, Sat 3pm​

 

[Dogs Of War]

Will be interesting to see how the Dogs go. I've gone with the Cowboys tipping wise, but I'm hoping the Dogs can dig deep and win this one.

 

[Barkley]

I've also gone for the Cowboys. We are playing good footy but to beat them at home is a massive ask. This game will give us a good indication of where our season is at.

 

[lafai]

Screw it, tipping Bulldogs and going to say we will win the comp if we win this game.

 

[Timmah]

But what happened to #sackDes?

 

[lafai]

We started playing good.

 

[Dogs Of War]

Cowboys vs Bulldogs – Key match stats
– Canterbury’s 21 wins from 33 matches against the Cowboys is their highest winning percentage against any team.

– The Bulldogs have won three of their past four in Townsville and 12 from 16 overall at the venue.

These stats are interesting. I knew we had the wood on the cows early, but this suggest we might be well matched against them and able to draw them into playing our game. Probably see Thurston making heaps of tackles with all the big guys running at him. Might change my tip to the Dogs.

 

[Timmah]

We started playing good.

I'd venture to say we weren't really playing *that* badly to start with.

 

[lafai]

We weren't in the top 4 which means we were as shit as the Knights in my book lol.

 

[Timmah]

At least we won the Lafai-Hopoate war.

Geez that thread in the NRL section would be a decent bump about now

 

[isaiah]

hopefully the fat bulldogs bench have trouble with the townsville heat.

 

[RecordBreakingMaroons.]

A big fat donut. The contest of size versus ability.

 

[lafai]

Screw it, tipping Bulldogs and going to say we will win the comp if we win this game.

One of my best

 

[Timmah]

A big fat donut. The contest of size versus ability.

Or just when you have 60+ percent possession and the opposition makes stupid errors, you're likely to win.

Last night was an off night. We'll be back.

 

[Barkley]

#sackDesagain

 

[lafai]

Like timmah said it was an off night. Every time we lose we might as well #SackDes