2009 North Queensland Cowboys season

The 2009 North Queensland Cowboys season was the 15th season in the club's history. Coached by Neill Henry and captained by Johnathan Thurston, they competed in the National Rugby League's 2009 Telstra Premiership and finished the regular season 12th (out of 16), failing to reach the play-offs for the second consecutive year. Forward Luke O'Donnell was named the club's player of the year.^[1]

Ladder

2009 NRL season
	Team	Pld	W	D	L	B	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	St. George Illawarra	24	17	0	7	2	548	329	+219	38
2	Bulldogs	24	18	0	6	2	575	428	+147	38*
3	Gold Coast	24	16	0	8	2	514	467	+47	36
4	Melbourne	24	14	1	9	2	505	348	+157	33
5	Manly-Warringah	24	14	0	10	2	549	439	+90	32
6	Brisbane	24	14	0	10	2	511	566	−55	32
7	Newcastle	24	13	0	11	2	508	491	+17	30
8	Parramatta	24	12	1	11	2	476	473	+3	29
9	Wests Tigers	24	12	0	12	2	558	483	+75	28
10	South Sydney	24	11	1	12	2	566	549	+17	27
11	Penrith	24	11	1	12	2	515	589	−74	27
12	North Queensland	24	11	0	13	2	558	474	+84	26
13	Canberra	24	9	0	15	2	489	510	−31	22
14	New Zealand	24	7	2	15	2	377	545	−188	20
15	Cronulla-Sutherland	24	5	0	19	2	359	568	−209	14
16	Sydney Roosters	24	5	0	19	2	382	681	−299	14

* Bulldogs stripped of 2 competition points after an interchange breach in round 2

Players

Squad

Although other players may play for the North Queensland Cowboys during the year, all NRL clubs are required to select a top 25 First Grade squad at the beginning of the season.

No. Position Player SR Mitchell Achurch HK Clint Amos SR Matthew Bartlett SR Scott Bolton FE Travis Burns CE Brandon Boor FB Matthew Bowen FE Travis Burns WG Ben Farrar CE Ashley Graham CE Ben Harris WG Shannon Hegarty SR Antonio Kaufusi WG Donald Malone FE Manase Manuokafoa FB David Pangai

No. Position Player HK Aaron Payne (vc) WG Anthony Perkins SR Steve Rapira HB Grant Rovelli PR Matthew Scott LK Nick Slyney SR Steve Southern SR James Tamou HB Johnathan Thurston (c) SR Willie Tonga PR Shane Tronc HK Anthony Watts SR Carl Webb PR Dayne Weston CE John Williams CE Ty Williams

Player Movement

Squad changes from 2008 season.

Gains

Name	From	Details
Mitchell Achurch	Wests Tigers	2009–2010
Sepuloni 'Ron' Alovili	Gold Coast Titans	2009–2011
Clint Amos	Gold Coast Titans	2009–2010
Shannon Hegarty	South Sydney Rabbitohs	2009 - 2009
Billy Johnstone	Gold Coast Titans (Strength & Conditioning Coach)	2009–2011
Antonio Kaufusi	Melbourne Storm	2009–2011
Donald Malone	Ipswich Jets	2009–2011
Manase Manuokafoa	South Sydney Rabbitohs	2009–2011
Steve Rapira	New Zealand Warriors U20	2009–2010
Grant Rovelli	New Zealand Warriors	2009–2010
James Tamou	Sydney Roosters	2009–2010
Willie Tonga	Bulldogs Rugby League Football Club	2009–2012

Losses

Name	Club Going To	Details
Ray Cashmere	Salford City Reds	2009
Mark Henry	Salford City Reds
Jacob Lillyman	New Zealand Warriors	2009–2010
Sione Faumuina	Castleford Tigers
Justin Smith	Retired
Jackson Nicolau	Gold Coast Titans
John Frith	Released
Sam Faust	Released
Ben Vaeau	Released
Daniel Backo	Released
Keiron Lander	Released

Fixtures & Results

Trial matches

Telstra Premiership

Statistics

Updated: 6 June 2009 (prior to Round 13)

Name	P	T	G	FG	Pts
Clint Amos	4 (4)	1	0	0	0
Scott Bolton	11 (3)	2	0	0	8
Matt Bowen	11 (0)	6	0	0	24
Travis Burns	11 (0)	3	0	0	12
Ben Farrar	10 (0)	5	0	0	20
Ashley Graham	9 (0)	1	0	0	4
Ben Harris	6 (2)	0	0	0	0
Shannon Hegarty	5 (0)	2	0	0	0
Antonio Kaufusi	11 (3)	2	0	0	8
Manase Manuokafoa	3 (2)	0	0	0	0
Luke O'Donnell	10 (0)	3	0	0	12
Aaron Payne	11 (0)	1	0	0	4
Steve Rapira	4 (4)	0	0	0	0
Grant Rovelli	4 (3)	1	0	0	0
Matthew Scott	11 (8)	0	0	0	0
James Tamou	4 (4)	2	0	0	8
Johnathan Thurston	11 (0)	6	44/49	0	112
Willie Tonga	7 (0)	3	0	0	12
Shane Tronc	11 (1)	1	0	0	4
Carl Webb	10 (2)	2	0	0	8
Dayne Weston	1 (1)	0	0	0	0
John Williams	8 (0)	4	0	0	16
Ty Williams	4 (0)	1	0	0	4
Total					272

• Appearances in brackets () denote games off interchange/repl bench
• Key: P = Played, T = Tries, G = Goals, FG = Field Goals, Pts = Points

References

External links

• North Queensland Cowboys: Season Review - NRL.com

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