{"id":288477,"date":"2023-04-22T11:40:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T11:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=288477"},"modified":"2023-04-22T12:58:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T12:58:49","slug":"cowboys-win-epic-despite-stupid-stars-brain-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=288477","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys win epic despite 'stupid' star's 'brain explosion'"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was billed as Kalyn Ponga<\/a>'s return to Townsville after a concussion ruled the five-eighth out in round two, but it was fellow Queenslander<\/a> Murray Taulagi who brought reaction from commentators and fans during the Cowboys<\/a>' round eight fixture against the Knights.<\/p>\n

In the 47th minute, the Cowboys winger was sin binned for a \ufefflate hit on Newcastle Knights<\/a> centre Dane Gagai<\/a> which was described as 'stupid' by experts.<\/p>\n

Thankfully for Taulagi, the Cowboys went on to win their third game of the season with a 18-16 victory<\/a>. \ufeff<\/p>\n

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Former Sharks coach Shane Flanagan was scathing of the Australian representative after the sin bin. \ufeff<\/p>\n

\"Murray<\/p>\n

"Add five minutes for stupidity because it's a stupid tackle," he said on Fox League's coverage.<\/p>\n

"We talk about hitting our halves late, big forwards are told to go and make them play early but that's just a silly tackle, he's earned his ten minutes in the sin bin."<\/p>\n

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Former Maroons star Brent Tate called Taulagi's hit a "brain explosion". \ufeff<\/p>\n

With the Cowboys down to 12-men, Newcastle went on a rampage with Dom Young scoring straight after the incident while Lachlan Fitzgibbon grabbed his own four-pointer just before Taulagi returned. \ufeff<\/p>\n

\"NRL<\/p>\n

North Queensland did the hard work early though with Reece Robson scoring first to make it 6-0 after 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

New signing Greg Marzhew levelled up proceedings three minutes later but the Cowboys went into the sheds with a 12-6 lead thanks to a miracle Kyle Feldt try.<\/p>\n

\ufeffAfter Taulagi returned to the field, the Cowboys found their spark and a Tom Dearden try in the 64th minute gave the side an 18-16 lead that couldn't be defeated.<\/p>\n

\ufeffNorth Queensland now move to 14th on the live ladder while the Knights stay in 11th.<\/p>\n

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It was billed as Kalyn Ponga's return to Townsville after a concussion ruled the five-eighth out in round two, but it was fellow Queenslander Murray […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":288479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288482,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288477\/revisions\/288482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/288479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}