Dragons v Cowboys: Final Team Lists

St George Illawarra Head Coach Steve Price has named his starting 17 for the Dragons' first trial match of 2013, against the North Queensland Cowboys at Barlow Park, Cairns.

The Saturday night encounter will be the first outing for the team under the leadership of new Dragons Captain Ben Creagh and they come up against a Cowboys side missing its halfback and Captain, Jonathan Thurston, ruled out with a nagging hand injury from last weeks' All-Stars clash.

New recruits Gerard Beale and Tyson Frizell will start for the Red-and-Whites, while Josh Drinkwater, Bronson Harrison and Michael Henderson are expected to pull on the famous Red V in the second half along with young Dragons Charly Runciman and Adam Quinlan.

Dragons fans outside Cairns can follow the action online with the Dragons Cairns live-blog, as well as catch up on the team's week in Cairns.

St George Illawarra Dragons vs North Queensland Cowboys
Barlow Park (Cairns)
Saturday, February 16
4.00pm – Gates open
5.30pm – NQ Cowboys Under 20s vs Skill360 Northern Pride
7.30pm – NQ Cowboys vs St George Illawarra Dragons

St George Illawarra Dragons Final Line-Up:

1 Beale
2 Morris
3 Stanley
4 Cooper
5 Nightingale
6 Soward
7 Fien
8 Prior
9 Rein
10 De Belin
11 Frizell
12 Creagh (c)
13 Merrin

Interchange:
14 Vidot
15 Harrison
16 Vea
17 King
19 Drinkwater
20 Ryan
21 Runciman
22 Goodwin
23 Henderson
24 Stockwell
25 Matthews
26 Quinlan

North Queensland Cowboys Final Line-Up:

1 Clint Greenshields
2 Wayne Ulugia
3 Antonio Winterstein
4 Curtis Rona
5 Kalifa Faifai Loa
19 Robert Lui
7 Michael Morgan
8 Matthew Scott (c)
9 Scott Moore
10 James Tamou
11 Gavin Cooper
12 Glenn Hall
13 Dallas Johnson

Interchange:
14 Ray Thompson
15 Kyle Feldt
16 Tariq Sims
17 Jason Taumalolo
18 Ashton Sims
20 Joel Riethmuller
21 Scott Bolton
22 Ricky Thorby