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DIEHARD
04-06-10, 12:28 PM
RAIDERS NYC

1. HAYDON HODGE
2. CHRIS MEDCALF
3. MICHAEL CULLEN
4. SAMI SAUILUMA
5. MICHAEL THOMAS
6. JAMES SMART
7. SAM WILLIAMS (C)
8. MARK APPLETON
9. MATT MCILWRICK
10. MITCH KENNEDY
11. SAM MATAORA
12. JOSH PAPALII
13. MARK NICHOLLS

14. MICHAEL NIXON
15. SHANNON BOYD
16. MICHAEL CHEE KAM
17. PAUL VAUGHAN

COACH: DAVID HAMILTON

TITANS NYC

1 Jamie Dowling
2 Lachlan Creighton
3 Japeth Vaoa
4 Dominic Walsh
5 Ryan Tongia
6 Jordan Rankin
7 Cody Walker
8 Josh Coyle
9 Matt Srama
10 Jarrod Wallace
11 Kurt Foggo
12 Ryan James
13 Jack Clark

Interchange
14 Jesse Malcolm
15 Ayden Lee
16 Guy Borgas
17 Danny Kerr
18 Stirling Siejka

Coach: Rod Patison

DIEHARD
04-06-10, 12:38 PM
Me, Doug, Greg and Antonio will be down there to support our Under 20s!

titanstattman
04-06-10, 08:30 PM
Me, Doug, Greg and Antonio will be down there to support our Under 20s!

Iv also spoke to a few of the boys and they pretty happy there afew of us heading down there

titanstattman
08-06-10, 09:24 AM
And wat a game that was cody with a 3bagger Ryan had a blinder aswell. and Rankin had a great kicking game..

52-24

DIEHARD
08-06-10, 12:35 PM
The NYC performance was up there as being the highlight of me, Doug, Greg and Antonio's roadtrip.

They played with such flare and passion.

And they also ALL jogged over from the far 50m line to behind the goal posts to shake hands and celebrate with the brave little band of Titans fans. Most from QLD and Greg who basically is!

Well done guys!

A Raiders fan behind us was absolutely speechless from the sight of that! First class effort.

We'll be there to cheer you on this Friday!

DIEHARD
08-06-10, 01:41 PM
Here is a picture of them walking back afterward. Sorry I didnt get a better one, I didnt charge my phone and was budgeting my 10% battery life.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs542.snc3/29705_431591743618_710583618_5568927_3108192_n.jpg

Our helmeted Titan fan is Antonio from The Legion.

DIEHARD
09-06-10, 12:25 PM
Titanic Struggle for Toyota Cup Raiders

The Toyota Cup Raiders suffered a shock 52-24 loss to the Gold Coast Titans who previously had only won three of their eleven games.

That may have played into the hands of the Queensland side, as they took full advantage of a scrappy and ill-disciplined Raiders outfit to trounce the home side 52-24 at Canberra Stadium.

The verdict from both coach and captain was the team’s poor attitude and unwillingness to fight for the game.

“It’s attitude, pure disrespect for the opposition, not respecting what sort of team they actually are.” David Hamilton said.
“We just went through the motions, turned up got changed and ran out on the field and left our attitude in the change room.”

Captain Sam Williams was also disappointed that his team did not compete for most of the match.
“We probably showed up for a twenty minute period there, and then we sort of needed a bit more heart near the end because they got a couple of tries on us and we let them slip away. That’s not what we wanted; we wanted to make sure that if they do get a couple we come back,” the number seven said.

It looked as though the Raiders were going to get off to a dream start as Mark Nicholls reached out to plant the ball over the line only to be penalised for a double movement.

The Titans added salt to the wound after a perfectly placed kick set up the first try just a minute later.

The next ten minutes tested the Raiders defense as the Titans received three attacking sets of six. For the most part the defensive unit was strong, it took an intuitive grubber from the Titans halfback on the last which he re-gathered to take the away team to a ten nil lead.

The Raiders finally received some time with the ball and thirteen minutes later the green machine had taken the front thanks to a double from fullback Haydon Hodge.

The first began with a short ball to hard running second rower Sam Mataora who ran straight through the non-existent Titans defense before offloading to his outside man Drury low who clinically passed back inside to Hodge to score the four pointer unopposed.

Hodge was again backing up the play when Sam Williams broke through the line and looked to draw the fullback to put in his own number one. The last defender managed to get his hand to it but only propelled it into his own in-goal leaving the custodian the simple task of grounding the pill.

The fullback was everywhere in the first half and was influential again as the Raiders looked to put the Titans to the sword with their third try in twelve minutes.

From five metres out Hodge ran it to the line before deftly rolling a grubber through for winger Chris Medcalf who dived to beat the Titans defenders to the ball.

The Raiders eight-point lead was squandered as the half time siren approached. Again it was the Titans number seven who scored to bring the deficit back to two after getting on the end of a well-placed grubber.

The Raiders didn't come out of the dressing sheds after half time as the Titans broke away with the first two tries.

Raiders man of the match Mark Appleton barged his way over from close range to get back to within four but it wasn’t enough to inspire a comeback, as the Titans posted another four unanswered tries, to blow the margin out to twenty-eight points.

Gold Coast Titans 52 (C Walker 3, L Creighton, J Dowling, J Rankin, R Tongia, J Vaoa, D Walsh tries; J Rankin 8 goals) bt Canberra Raiders 24 (H Hodge 2, M Appleton, C Medcalf tries; C Medcalf 4 goals) at Canberra Stadium.

Source: http://www.raiders.com.au