Cowboys 30–33 Eels · Round 10 2026

Eels edge it late

The Eels edged the Cowboys 33–30 at Queensland Country Bank Stadium in front of 17,626 in Round 10. They came from behind, trailing 10–12 at the break.

Josh Addo-Carr scored 2 tries. Tom Dearden (Cowboys) was the standout in a losing side with 69 fantasy points, 149 run metres and 3 tackle breaks. The Eels won the metres battle 2,068 to 2,011 and made fewer errors (6 to 18).

Our Final Tip had the Cowboys at 69% (a Lean) and got it wrong. The bookies had the other side as favourites, so this one was an upset.

Form before this game · most recent first

Cowboys WWLWW

Eels LLWLL

Game flow

Show scoring as a table

Min	Team	Player	Event	Score
2'	Eels	Brian Kelly	Try	0–4
9'	Cowboys	Heilum Luki	Try	4–4
10'	Cowboys	Jake Clifford	Conversion	6–4
21'	Eels	Tallyn Da Silva	Try	6–8
22'	Eels	Mitchell Moses	Conversion	6–10
28'	Cowboys	Jake Clifford	Try	10–10
29'	Cowboys	Jake Clifford	Conversion	12–10
47'	Eels	Josh Addo-Carr	Try	12–14
49'	Eels	Mitchell Moses	Conversion	12–16
50'	Cowboys	Jaxon Purdue	Try	16–16
52'	Cowboys	Jake Clifford	Conversion	18–16
55'	Cowboys	Reed Mahoney	Try	22–16
56'	Cowboys	Jake Clifford	Conversion	24–16
59'	Eels	Josh Addo-Carr	Try	24–20
60'	Eels	Mitchell Moses	Conversion	24–22
67'	Cowboys	Tom Chester	Try	28–22
68'	Cowboys	Jake Clifford	Conversion	30–22
74'	Eels	Jordan Samrani	Try	30–26
76'	Eels	Joash Papalii	Try	30–30
81'	Eels	Ronald Volkman	Penalty goal	30–33

Team stats

CowboysEels

45% Possession 55%

71% Completion rate 91%

2,011 Run metres 2,068

598 Post-contact metres 625

9 Line breaks 7

42 Tackle breaks 33

9 Offloads 5

595 Kick metres 901

90.1% Effective tackle % 84.5%

33 Missed tackles 42

18 Errors 6

4 Penalties conceded 0

DisciplinePenalties + six-agains

	NQL	PAR
Six-again (ruck)
Early Tackle
Pressure on Kicker
Shoulder Charge
Total	6	3

Positional battles

Combined numbers per position group · more fantasy points takes the battle

Fullbacks

PAR 53-36

Drinkwater Papalii

219 Run metres 135

85 Kick return metres 71

2 Tackle breaks 4

0 Line breaks 0

Halves

NQL 133-101

Clifford, Dearden Volkman, Moses

5 Try assists 1

3 Line-break assists 1

472 Kick metres 886

5 Errors 0

Hookers

PAR 61-59

Mahoney Da Silva

54 Tackles 36

68 Run metres 87

75 Passes 154

0 Errors 0

Middles

NQL 121-90

Hess, Taumalolo, Cotter Moretti, Paulo, De Belin

276 Run metres 360

101 Post-contact metres 136

87 Tackles 55

7 Missed tackles 5

Back row

NQL 107-89

Luki, McIntyre Tuilagi, Williams

175 Run metres 295

6 Tackle breaks 3

70 Tackles 55

4 Missed tackles 6

Outside backs

NQL 176-168

Burns, Purdue, Chester, Laybutt Kelly, Samrani, Russell, Addo-Carr

800 Run metres 693

4 Line breaks 3

2 Tries 4

8 Errors 4

Best performers

NQL Tom Dearden 69

PAR Jordan Samrani 64

NQL Jake Clifford 64

NQL Heilum Luki 61

PAR Tallyn Da Silva 61

PAR Jack Williams 60

NQL Reed Mahoney 59

NQL Tom Chester 57

Show performers as a table

Player	Team	Fantasy	Run m	Tackle breaks	Line breaks	Tries	Try assists	Tackles
Tom Dearden	Cowboys	69	149	3	1	0	4	18
Jordan Samrani	Eels	64	248	4	2	1	1	9
Jake Clifford	Cowboys	64	91	2	2	1	1	22
Heilum Luki	Cowboys	61	94	3	2	1	0	34
Tallyn Da Silva	Eels	61	87	4	2	1	0	36
Jack Williams	Eels	60	148	2	0	0	1	32
Reed Mahoney	Cowboys	59	68	0	0	1	0	54
Tom Chester	Cowboys	57	252	7	1	1	0	12

Head-to-head

2025 R23Eels home NQL 18 19 PAR Eels by 1

2024 R6Eels home NQL 20 27 PAR Eels by 7

2023 R21Cowboys home NQL 24 16 PAR Cowboys by 8

2023 R13Eels home NQL 16 24 PAR Eels by 8

2022 R8Eels home NQL 35 4 PAR Cowboys by 31

How we tipped it

Chance each model gave the Eels · right of 50% = tipped the winner

NRL / Round 10