This post was originally published on this site
North Queensland loom as the biggest premiership threat outside the top four as they look to make amends for finals heartbreak two years ago
They are the NRL’s likeable entertainers, plying their trade away from the spotlight on the country’s northern fringe. But on the eve of the finals, North Queensland Cowboys have become something more.
“There were four of us in the comp, and now we’re the lone Queensland team,” winger Murray Taulagi says, preparing for Sunday’s elimination final against Newcastle. “We’ve got to put Queensland on our back.”