Hometown boy Ross Bella has been promoted to the North Queensland Cowboys' NYC team’s forward pack for this evening’s pre-season trial against the Mackay Cutters at Stadium Mackay.
The son of former Test and Origin prop Martin Bella replaces Braden Uele in the front-row with the Junior Kiwi to be part of tonight’s NRL trial between the Cowboys and Broncos.
First-year NYC Cowboy Taha Tutavake has dropped off the interchange bench after suffering a bad cork to his leg during training this week.
Second-rower Kieran Quabba will captain the Cowboys and will be part of a strong forward pack that includes 18-year-old Coen Hess, who played for NQ in the NRL Auckland Nines at the weekend.
Today’s match will be played over four 20-minute quarters with unlimited interchange and will kick off at 4.30pm.
COWBOYS NYC: 1 Yamba Bowie, 2 Sam Smith, 3 Akeripa Tia Kilifi, 4 Conor Carey, 5 Scott Schulte, 6 Ty Carucci, 7 Cooper Bambling, 17 Ross Bella, 9 Brandon Smith, 10 Viliame Kikau, 11 Kieran Quabba (c), 12 Coen Hess, 13 Andrew Niemoeller. Interchange: 14 Cyrus Timo-Latu, 15 Jordan Kenworthy, 16 David Munro, 19 Rainer Power, 20 Trey Kemp, 21 Nick Brown, 22 Delayne Ashby.
