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The loss was compounded by an injury to Dearden, who could miss Origin I depending on scans on his injured ankle. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019ll go for a scan tomorrow, it\u2019s his ankle,\u201d Payten said. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a tough kid, wanted to stick it out, so fingers crossed.\u201d <\/p>\n
Payten was pressed if he made the wrong call to keep Dearden on the field. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was just talking to him about it and he said he should have come off, but he wanted to run it out,\u201d Payten said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe message was coming up to us that he was good to go. It was clear he wanted to stick it out, but we all got it wrong.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Cowboys also lost Soni Luke to a knee injury in a double blow. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s in a brace, he\u2019s done a medial, so a scan tomorrow will dictate how long, but it\u2019s going to be a week or two at least,\u201d Payten said. <\/p>\n
JT runs out as the most capped Cowboy! | 00:42<\/p>\n
Payten also revealed Reed Mahoney carried an injury into the game. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe was in some doubt this week too, he had an operation last weekend with an infection in his hand, so he had a real desire to play tonight, which I like and played pretty well,\u201d Payten said of Mahoney. <\/p>\n
Cowboys skipper Reuben Cotter was equally disappointed he and his team couldn\u2019t make it a more memorable night for Taumalolo. <\/p>\n
\u201cJust obviously disappointed that we couldn\u2019t get it done for Jason and we didn\u2019t really give ourselves a chance with that many errors,\u201d Cotter said. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd as a collective, we just didn\u2019t have respect for the ball and disappointed in myself and probably how we started the game and how I started the game with a mindset of just passing instead of just going forward, so a disappointing loss.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Todd Payten was fuming at his players for blowing a lead with their captain hobbling and ruining Jason…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,317448,259603,14348,318027,18664,274104,37304,4739,43473,3512,4746,25173,22326,761,762,764,158,9112,144104,317447,85,777,776],"class_list":["post-657975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bin-turns-game","tag-controversial-sin-bin","tag-disappointing-loss","tag-ending-ends","tag-game-plan","tag-game-press-conference","tag-golden-point","tag-injury-blows","tag-johnathan-thurston","tag-knee-injury","tag-mark-st-john","tag-milestone-game","tag-mitchell-moses","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-north-queensland-cowboys","tag-nrl","tag-parramatta-eels","tag-reuben-cotter","tag-sin-bin-turns","tag-sports","tag-todd-payten","tag-tom-dearden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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