Drinkwater hoists up a kick, Nawaqanitawase loses it and it falls perfectly for Taulagi to score an easy and sorely needed try!

But Klein doesn't like it, we go to the Bunker and they rule that Laybutt touched it first.

Roosters ball.

The Roosters are rolling now. A penalty puts them back on the attack and on the last tackle Walker steps off his left foot through some feeble defence to score under the posts.

That's his second try of the night and once he converts it's 24-6 Roosters.

Cherry-Evans nails a 40/20 and the Roosters are on the attack again.

Tedesco probes across the field, he pokes a kick in and Savala is there first to score their third try of the night.

Geez, wasn't much on there and in the blink of an eye, once Walker converts, it's 18-6 Roosters.

Again the Roosters pick the Cowboys apart through the middle, Walker hits inside Tedesco with a nice inside ball and backs up to get the ball back and score.

Crafty stuff from the halfback and once he converts his own try it's 12-6 Roosters.

Back to back penalties put the Cowboys on the attack and give them a fresh set in the red zone.

They sweep right, Purdue digs right into the line and tries to fire a pass to Burns, Talau gets a hand to it, it falls for Burns anyway and the winger is over in the corner!

Drinkwater converts from out wide and it's 6-all. Nice fightback from North Queensland.

After the Cowboys wrap up Wong on the last tackle Laybutt plays the ball and Drinkwater isn't paying attention!

Wong goes to dive on the ball but he knocks it on! Blushes dodged by the Cowboys, who have gotten off to a very slow start.

Radley pulls through some soft defence in the middle of the field and slips a beautiful offload to Robson to put him away and Tedesco is in support to score.

Outstanding start for the Chooks and once Walker converts it's 6-0 Roosters.

Reuben Cotter and Connor Watson lead the teams out with the Cowboys wearing an strip commemorating Indigenous round.

We'll have a smoking ceremony, a welcome to country and then the game will get underway.

It was a good few months ago now but here's the good oil from the last time these two teams met. One of a number of strong Cowboys this year - most of which have come without Tom Dearden, funnily enough.

Can they give us a sequel tonight? Or will the Chooks win their sixth straight?

No changes for North Queensland - a reminder, they're still without Tom Dearden, so Jaxon Purdue is at halfback and Zac Laybutt is in at centre.

Just the one switch for the Roosters with Spencer Leniu dropping back to the bench and Salesi Foketi starting at prop. Might be a chance that Foketi is actually on an edge with Nat Butcher pushing to prop, we'll keep an eye out.

Hey sports fans, time for some footy.

Tonight we've got North Queensland vs the Roosters in an interesting clash between a top four certainty and a top eight contender.

Should be plenty of points a bit of fun.

Kick back, relax and let's have some fun out there tonight.

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