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Braidon burns his former club
38 min: A lovely cut-out pass from Scott Drinkwater gives former Rabbitoh Braidon Burns the space to score in the corner. Holmes converts. Cowboys 16-12
Rabbitohs grab the lead
32 min: Alex Johnston scores his 189th NRL try, seizing on a peach of a pass from Mitchell. Conversion is successful from Mitchell. Rabbitohs 12-10
Bunnies fight back
22 min: Mitchell muscles his way over from close range, shrugging off five Cowboys defenders, for a converted try. Inspirational play. Cowboys 10-6
Cowboys go in again
15 min: Brilliant play from the Cowboys culminates in a try to Dearden. Holmes bangs the conversion over from the sideline. Cowboys 10-0
Welcome back to Suncorp, Latrell!
Cowboys fire the first shot
8 min: Centre Viliami Vailea opens the scoring for the Cowboys. Kick missed. Cowboys 4-0
Rabbitohs chance goes begging
7 min: Let-off for the Cowboys as Sean Keppie loses the ball in trying to reach out to score. The Rabbitohs had been camped inside the Cowboys’ 20m for much of the opening period.
Game on
1 min: The Cowboys have first use of the ball after the Rabbitohs kick off.
Hasler hopping mad
Speaking of unhappy bunnies, Des Hasler is hopping mad after a costly bunker call in the Titans’ loss to the Knights in the day’s opening game. Gold Coast centre Brian Kelly thought he had scored to make it 28-all late on at Suncorp Stadium, and with a kick to possibly win the game. The bunker thought otherwise, and the Knights won 28-24.
“It’s a try every day of the week,” Hasler said. “The bunker, it’s crazy. His [Kelly] hand never came away from the ball. If it did, it was a penalty for a one-on-one strip.
“They don’t know. They don’t know. I am very proud of the way they [Titans] fought. But it is very frustrating for the players with the competition being so close.”
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