Inglis grabs double as Souths down Cowboys South Sydney fullback Greg Inglis helped his side continue their surge towards premiership favouritism on Friday night with a two-try effort in their 28-10 win over top-eight NRL rivals North Queensland. Inglis iced the victory with a 90m four-pointer in a performance that will add weight to his claims of taking the Queensland No.1 jersey from incumbent Billy Slater. The Cowboys, led by an all-star display from captain Johnathan Thurston and a double to winger Antonio Winterstein, fired plenty at the home side but ultimately became their eighth victims of the year. They also played without luck all game, having two tries denied by video referees Chris Ward and Luke Patten. The Rabbitohs overcame a slow start to move into outright first position on the NRL ladder, where they can be joined by Melbourne who play Penrith on Sunday. The Burgess brothers were central to South Sydney's success - Sam scoring the opening try while all of the Rabbitohs' points came while barnstorming George was on the field. The monster bench prop ran for 188 metres in two stints after entering the fray in the 22nd minute, and Souths scored twice in the six minutes that followed. First, Sam Burgess crashed over from close range, then centre Bryson Goodwin finished off what will be a contender for try of the year. An innocuous Adam Reynolds banana kick was poached by Chris McQueen before going through four more sets of hands and eventually resting with Goodwin. Nathan Merritt gave NSW selectors another timely reminder of his attacking exploits when he crossed for his 10th try of the season late in the match. Earlier, the Cowboys' Winterstein opened the scoring with a simple overlap out wide. The classy winger was unlucky not to have a double by the halftime break after he was denied by the video referee who found a knock-on in the lead up. Brent Tate was also denied by the men upstairs when he appeared to cross right on halftime. Winterstein completed his double in the 46th minute, snaring a magnificent Thurston cross-field kick to keep the game interesting before Merritt's match sealer. Rabbitohs centre Beau Champion was unable to finish the match after injuring his hamstring in the second half. Cowboys coach Neil Henry remained miffed at decisions which denied his side twice in the first half - but blamed a high error rate for the loss. "I thought we would have got one of them, which would have helped us but, at the end of the day, we didn't and we can't control that," he said. But we let them get through and get on a loose ball in the in-goal and Greg Inglis gets on it - I'm not even real sure about the put-down on that one either. But we made enough errors in that game. Rabbitohs co-captain John Sutton and coach Michael Maguire said it was arguably the club's ugliest win of the season. "I thought it was pretty ugly the whole game but the boys hung in there," Sutton said. Our attack didn't really click tonight but our (defence) was pretty good and we got the two points.