Bond behind Cowboys' amazing response to tragedy

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Paul Green's tragic decease successful August could person been capable to derail the Cowboys' full season, Michael Morgan believes.

Speaking connected Wide World of Sports' QLDER, Morgan - who played successful Green's 2015 expansive last winning broadside - said the quality could person seen the Cowboys' signifier spell "one of 2 ways".

The Cowboys played their archetypal lucifer aft his decease hardly 48 hours aft learning of the news. They mislaid to the Roosters 32-18.

But they bounced backmost the pursuing anemic to flog the Warriors 48-4 astatine home. They volition beryllium hoping to transportation that information into their preliminary last against the Eels astatine location successful Townsville connected Friday night.

"They could spell truly good disconnected the backmost of it (with) that spot of other information to privation to bash him proud, and I deliberation the pursuing week aft it happened that's precisely what the nine did," Morgan said.

"The boys did that together."

The Cowboys rounded retired the play with a nonaccomplishment against the Rabbitohs astatine a greasy Accor Stadium, earlier a large triumph against an understrength Panthers.

The past clip the Cowboys clashed with the Eels was successful the vigor and humidity of Darwin successful circular eight, wherever Kyle Feldt scored a hat-trick successful a 35-4 win.

Morgan said manager Todd Payten had spent clip with respective players who had played nether Green who were struggling with the news.

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"There's inactive a fig of guys who spent a batch of clip nether Greenie erstwhile helium was coaching," Morgan said.

"One of Todd (Payten's) strengths arsenic a manager is he's personable with the players and helium understands them, and helium knows that not everyone reacts the aforesaid way.

"He would person accepted that and dealt with the guys who whitethorn person been I conjecture dealing with it a spot much than others, but the bully happening is they've travel retired the different broadside and they've gone truly well."

Johnathan Thurston was besides successful that team, and said Green holds a peculiar spot successful the hearts of each who played nether him.

"He volition ne'er beryllium forgotten astatine the nine oregon by those players," helium said.

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