Cowboys star Scott Drinkwater hits Tigers with brutal insult after North Queensland inflict biggest NRL win in 88 YEARS
- North Queensland thumped Wests Tigers in a crushing victory in Townsville
- It was the biggest winning margin in top level footy since 1935
- Scott Drinkwater compared the match to a training game at full time
Scott Drinkwater has rubbed salt in the wounds for Tigers fans after comparing the Cowboys’ drubbing of the NRL strugglers to a training game.
North Queensland avenged their embarrassing loss to Wests earlier this season with a sensational performance, putting 74 points on the scoreboard while shutting out their rivals at the other end.
Their mammoth score was the biggest winning margin in top level footy since 1935, representing a desperate new low for Tim Sheen’s side, and Drinkwater said the victory felt good.
‘That was a fun game to be a part of,’ he told Fox League. ‘It just felt like a conditioning game, a pre-season training game. Just how ruthless we were.
‘Everything was coming off, we were punching holes off each other and playing fast. We spoke about it all week, get a bit of payback and we did just that.
‘Toddy put up the scoreline around the training centre so it was very personal for us. It’s something that we’re very proud of. Payback is a beep.’
Six weeks after the Tigers humbled the Cowboys 66-18 in Sydney, the hosts ran in 13 unanswered tries to record the biggest winning margin of the NRL era.
The margin eclipses Parramatta’s 74-4 defeat of Cronulla in 2003.
It is also the third highest of all-time behind Canterbury’s 85-point and 80-point losses to St George and Eastern Suburbs respectively in 1935.
Seven tries were scored in the first half and a further six in the second as records fell at Queensland Country Bank Stadium.
The Cowboys posted their highest score and victory margin and hit 50 points for the first time under coach Todd Payten while inflicting the hapless Tigers’ worst-ever loss.
Valentine Holmes also registered the most individual points in a game by a Cowboys player, scoring 30 to surpass Jonathan Thurston and Josh Hannay who had 24-point hauls.
Scott Drinkwater ran amuck and continued his scintillating form with two tries, three try-assists, four line-assists and two tackle busts.
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