The North Queensland Cowboys have announced that Michael Morgan has agreed to a five-year contract extension with the club.

Morgan, 26, will remain at the club until the end of the 2023 season as football staff plan long-term for life after Johnathan Thurston.

Thurston and Morgan will spearhead the Cowboysโ€™ attack this season in what will be Thurstonโ€™s last year of playing, with Morgan stepping into the chief playmakerโ€™s role from 2019 onwards.

It was a role he carried out with class and skill last year during the Cowboysโ€™ golden run to a second grand final appearance in three seasons after Thurston was sidelined with injury.

โ€œIโ€™m stoked to be staying at the Cowboys, a club I grew up supporting and, later in life, proudly playing for,โ€ Morgan said of his re-signing.

โ€œTownsville is my home, Iโ€™ve been involved with the Cowboys since I was 17, I made my NRL debut as a Cowboy and all the positives in my career have come from me proudly wearing this great teamโ€™s colours.

Cowboys General Manager โ€“ Football Peter Parr said Morganโ€™s career at the club to date typified what it meant to be a homegrown Cowboy.

โ€œMichael was a Townsville junior, was identified at an early age, and came up through our elite pathways system, from which point he earned an NRL contract with the club,โ€ Parr said.

โ€œItโ€™s no secret the sort of career that Michael has had since then. Since making his NRL debut as a teenager in 2010, he has helped the club to its maiden premiership and two grand final appearances in three seasons. Heโ€™s also made his Queensland and Australian debuts while playing for the Cowboys, something he and the club can be extremely proud of.

โ€œTo have him remain a Cowboy for a further five seasons is tremendous news for Michael, the club and all of North Queensland.โ€

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