Panthers
22
Match Complete
Cowboys
10
| N. Cleary |  | 79 | ||
| N. Cleary |  | 79 | ||
| N. Cleary | | 60 | ||
| S. Crichton | | 58 | ||
| N. Cleary | | 50 | ||
| B. Naden | | 48 | ||
| 44 | | K. Feldt | ||
| 42 | | D. Asi | ||
| 35 | | H. Tabuai-Fidow | ||
| J. Luai | | 4 |
| 4 | Tries | 2 | ||
| 3 | Conversions | 1 | ||
| 0 | Penalty Goals | 0 | ||
| 0 | Field Goals | 0 |
The Penrith Panthers and North Queensland Cowboys will draw Round 10 to a close when they meet at Panthers Stadium. Join The Roar for live scores from 4:05pm (AEST).
Coming off hitting the half century against Cronulla, the Panthers are looking more and more like premiership contenders, while the Cowboys are clearly anything up. The North Queensland outfit, after putting together a solid opening half-hour against the Roosters, were absolutely obliterated in a meek second-half showing.
Adding to their woes is the injury to star signing Valentine Holmes. While he hasn’t reached his best since joining the club after a shot at the NFL, having a player of his immense talent spending the next two months on the sidelines is not going to help the struggling outfit.
The Panthers have just the one change to the line-up which cruised to last week’s win. Four-try debut winger Charlie Staines is suspended, so Dean Whare comes into the centres and Brent Naden gets pushed out to the wing.
Game information
Kick off: 4:05pm (AEST)
Venue: Panthers Stadium
TV: Channel 9, Fox Sports
Live stream: Kayo Sports, Foxtel
Betting: Penrith Panthers $1.14, North Queensland Cowboys $5.75
Teams
Penrith Panthers
1. Dylan Edwards 2. Josh Mansour 3. Dean Whare 4. Stephen Crichton 5. Brent Naden 6. Jarome Luai 7. Nathan Cleary 8. James Tamou 9. Apisai Koroisau 10. James Fisher-Harris 11. Viliame Kikau 12. Liam Martin 13. Isaah Yeo 14. Tyrone May 15. Spencer Leniu 16. Moses Leota 17. Billy Burns 18. Mitch Kenny 19. Matt Burton 20. Lindsay Smith 21. Malakai Watene-Zelezniak
North Queensland Cowboys
1. Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow 2. Kyle Feldt 3. Connelly Lemuelu 4. Esan Marsters 5. Justin O’Neill 6. Mitchell Dunn 7. Jake Clifford 8. Josh Mcguire 9. Reece Robson 10. Francis Molo 11. Shane Wright 12. Coen Hess 13. Jason Taumalolo 14. Daejarn Asi 15. Tom Gilbert 16. Gavin Cooper 17. Ben Hampton 18. Murray Taulagi 19. Reuben Cotter 23. Corey Jensen 24. Emry Pere
Wood.Duck
Roar Rookie
Pretenders. There is only four teams that can win it Roosters, Raiders, Manly and Parra. All the rest are in the Penrith category.
Rob
Guest
Really proud of the boys today. They gave it a real crack and were desperate in defence. It’s one of the few games we have started with 13 fit players in my opinion. The Panthers left edge has been on fire and the Cowboys have really struggled to not leak points there defensively. It was the difference today. Green has stuck with Masters and Drinkwater all year. Today it was just Masters and the defence all most kept them under 20? Nathan Cleary stepped up and owned that game. I hope my young Cowboys learned a lot from what he did. He just inspired his team and they fed off it to get the win. Fido is a special talent and the Panthers have super talent in the team also.
egbert
Guest
Not going to give up on Penrith's title chances on the basis of that -- as someone said, it's hard to play spectacular footy every week, and today I think we showed too much respect to the Cowboys and didn't display imaginative attack from our own half as we have in recent weeks. That said, about 4-5 other teams would have finished off the breaks that Naden and Burns botched; I don't think it's our year this year, but top four is a major step forward for sure. It's weird to see Penrith going in to most games as favourites.
Nat
Roar Rookie
But Cleary did. Tey can still hold their heads up tonight.
jimmmy
Roar Rookie
Penrith were better than us but that was so much better from us. Positives , Asi showed a bit, Cotter was good when he came on. Clifford kicked well for the most part. Moose gave it all, Nice try from the hammer . Good to see Green try a few things.
Tom G
Roar Rookie
Best performance I’ve seen from Cleary. He was inspirational
Stormy
Roar Rookie
A bit raw & rough around the edges, but, a lot to like with the Cowboys today. Defeated; certainly not disgraced.
79
jimmmy
Roar Rookie
That's a real shame. We didn't deserve an end like that.
DP Schaefer
Roar Rookie
Bad luck Jimmy and the Cows. Really showed up today. Just get some mongrel into your boys, letting a halfback monster your forwards...
The Barry
Roar Guru
Big effort from the Cows but lacked a little bit of finesse
79
Monorchid
Roar Rookie
Never been a Cleary fan. I'll have to change my view.
DP Schaefer
Roar Rookie
decisions heavily favoured Penrith, some good fortune their way.
Hard Yards
Roar Rookie
Well this has been a good game, if you like scrappy opportunism, but Penrith had a bit of a trials run against the Cows. Good to see the Cows man up.
Dutski
Roar Guru
Thank goodness for small mercies
egbert
Guest
that's two shocking options from breaks on both the right and left. Inexperience.
Rob
Guest
Fair dinkum Masters has to go.
Monorchid
Roar Rookie
Good to see at least one Queensland side playing with structure and purpose.
Hard Yards
Roar Rookie
TB below has the right view on this, Playboy Cleary has been the man.