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[VIDEO] Manly Sea Eagles vs North Queensland Cowboys Highlights: NRL scores, blog

20th July, 2015
Kickoff: 7.00pm (AEST)
Venue: Brookvale Oval, Sydney
TV: Fox Sports
Last Meeting: Cowboys 18-14, 2015
Head-to-head: Manly 15, Cowboys 8
Referees: Ashley Klein, Henry Perenara
Betting: Sea Eagles $3.72, Cowboys $1.28

Sea Eagles
1 Brett Stewart
2 Jorge Taufua
3 Jamie Lyon (c)
4 Steve Matai
5 Tom Trbojevic
6 Kieran Foran
7 Daly Cherry-Evans
8 Jake Trbojevic
9 Matt Ballin
10 Willie Mason
11 Feleti Mateo
12 Tom Symonds
13 Dunamis Lui
Interchange
14 Luke Burgess
15 Josh Starling
16 Justin Horo
17 Ligi Sao
19 Jayden Hodges

Cowboys
1 Lachlan Coote
2 Matthew Wright
3 Justin O'Neill
4 Kane Linnett
5 Antonio Winterstein
6 Michael Morgan
7 Johnathan Thurston
8 Matt Scott
9 Jake Granville
10 Ben Hannant
11 Gavin Cooper
12 Ethan Lowe
13 Jason Taumalolo
Interchange
14 Rory Kostjasyn
15 John Asiata
16 Scott Bolton
17 Sam Hoare
19 Patrick Kaufusi
Kieran Foran should have stayed with Manly. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts)
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Can Manly keep its return to form going and knock off the Cowboys at Brookvale Oval? Join The Roar from 7.00pm (AEST) for live scores to find out.

The Sea Eagles are on a little bit of a roll after walloping Gold Coast last week and beating Cronulla the weekend before that.

It’s been a terrible 2015 for Manly but with those wins, and some fit bodies back, things are starting to look a little brighter.

The Sea Eagles should have beaten the Cowboys in Townsville earlier this year but the home team got the victory with a last-minute try. They’ll need to be at their very best to knock North Queensland off in this one, but being at Brookvale Oval again is a plus.

The Cowboys aren’t sitting in second spot on the ladder by mistake. After losing their first three games in a row, they edged Melbourne by a point in round four. Since then the boys from the north have dropped just one game and have played some excellent footy.

Their comebacks against Canberra and Parramatta, have been awesome and they have been brilliantly steered around the park by Johnathan Thurston, who’s in career-best form. They’re never dead, never out of the contest and they have so many match-winners.

Michael Morgan has been on fire and Lachlan Coote has been impressive at the back. Jake Granville at hooker has been a great find. You throw in a big forward pack and the try-scoring talents of Gavin Cooper, and you have a confident, talented 17 that has
plenty of ticker.

Manly will need to match the Cowboys up front, and will need strong performances from the likes of youngster Jake Trobjevic and veteran Willie Mason.

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Feleti Mateo is back in the mix, offering another attacking edge, while Dunamis Lui returns from a week out. With Jamie Lyon partnering Steve Matai in the centres again and Kieran Foran back alongside Daly Cherry-Evans in the halves, it’s starting to look like the Manly of old again.

Brett Stewart has been the key for the Sea Eagles of late, his play-making has been vital in their resurgence.

Thurston and Morgan are back in place of Robert Lui and Ray Thompson, while Matt Scott also returns from Origin duty.

Surely Cherry-Evans will be fired up for a good display against his rivals in the Maroons camp.

Join The Roar from 7.00pm (AEST) for scores and commentary from the final game of round 19.

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