{"id":846021,"date":"2026-08-06T21:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846021\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T21:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:20:16","slug":"nrl-news-2026-cowboys-vs-titans-round-23-result-video-jaxon-purdue-sin-bin-adam-gee-argument-cameron-smith-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846021\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026: Cowboys vs Titans round 23 result, video; Jaxon Purdue sin bin, Adam Gee argument, Cameron Smith comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cowboys<\/a> young gun Jaxon Purdue was left irate with referee Adam Gee during the second half of his side\u2019s 30-8 win over the Titans<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

In a game where the teams confusingly swapped jersey colours for Indigenous Round – Gold Coast donning navy blue and North Queensland in teal – it was the visitors who put last week\u2019s horrific 82-12 drubbing<\/a> behind them with a crucial win at Cbus Super Stadium, keeping their NRL finals hopes alive. <\/p>\n

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Jason Taumalolo celebrates a try against the Titans.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

Scott Drinkwater took a crucial step to leaving last week behind him in the early stages, nailing a brilliant 40\/20 to put the Cowboys in good field position, before veteran enforcer Jason Taumalolo<\/a> muscled his way over to score.<\/p>\n

Jake Clifford put the visitors further ahead with an incredibly soft try and it wasn\u2019t the last of them either, with Heilum Luki carrying multiple defenders over the line to extend his side\u2019s lead to 18-4 right before half time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like under 8s, just give it to the big kid,\u201d Peter Psaltis said on Nine.<\/p>\n

Cameron Smith<\/a> admitted the home side\u2019s mistakes had come back to bite them.<\/p>\n

\u201cCowboys have capitalised on a couple of really poor errors, they\u2019ve been invited into good field position,\u201d the former Queensland captain said.<\/p>\n

Gold Coast rallied after the break and were gifted a golden opportunity when Purdue was sin binned for a professional foul. <\/p>\n

After making a desperate cover tackle on AJ Brimson, the 21-year-old got himself tangled with the Titans star and was penalised for holding down in the ruck. <\/p>\n

Purdue got to his feet straight away and pleaded his case, but referee Gee already had both hands up, signalling for the halfback to leave the field.<\/p>\n

He then stayed on the field for an extended period protesting the decision. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s still not off the field here,\u201d Psaltis said on commentary.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he doesn\u2019t be careful, it might be more than 10 minutes here – that\u2019s one thing the officials are clamping down on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Replays showed that Reuben Cotter attempted to drag Purdue off the tackle, but it wasn\u2019t quick enough for the official\u2019s liking. <\/p>\n

Purdue would eventually jog off the field as the small Gold Coast crowd let him know their thoughts, booing the talented Mackay product off.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Nine post-game, Purdue revealed he tried to get captain Reuben Cotter to challenge the decision, but was told it wasn\u2019t allowed. <\/p>\n

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Jaxon Purdue argues with referee Adam Gee.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a bit of a weird one, I couldn\u2019t really get up,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cI was trying to get Reubs to challenge it, but the ref said you can\u2019t even challenge. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what I was thinking, it always sucks to get 10 in the bin when it\u2019s such a grinding game like that and let the boys down.<\/p>\n

Dragons-bound winger Phillip Sami scored his second try of the night immediately after Purdue\u2019s sin bin, narrowing the margin and giving the crowd some hope.<\/p>\n

But straight after he returned to the field, Purdue made up for his absence with a blistering solo try that gave the Cowboys a much-needed buffer.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe will feel good about that too, because he just let his team down for 10 minutes with that sin bin,\u201d Smith said after the four-pointer.<\/p>\n

Luki put the icing on the cake with a tremendous runaway try, sealing the result and making it a double for himself in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cowboys young gun Jaxon Purdue was left irate with referee Adam Gee during the second half of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-846021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846021","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=846021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}