Round 5 2013: TITANS vs BRONCOS

[C-Whiz]

If Prince doesnt fire for this game he never will.

He won't get a chance. Our pack will monster them, and now with no Thaiday, they will have no spirit. Prince will struggle to have enough time to put it onto the boot. I wonder if he will try and man up on Alby. Might be fun watching those 2 duke it out.

I might put Hannant in my DT. He will be carrying the Broncos on Friday night IMO.

[TITAN PETE]

Harrison, Takairangi named for local derby
Tuesday 2 April 2013 2:00 PM

iSelect Gold Coast Titans Coach John Cartwright has today named an extended 19-man squad in the build-up to Friday night?s blockbuster local derby against the Brisbane Broncos at Skilled Park.

Lock Ashley Harrison (concussion) and centre Brad Takairangi (hamstring) have both been named to return from injury after missing last weekend?s 28-10 win over the Penrith Panthers at Centrebet Stadium.

Utility Luke O?Dwyer and centre Steve Michaels have again been included as cover on an extended six-man bench after helping the team to the win against the Panthers.

The Titans have won three out of six matches played between the two clubs at Skilled Park, including a 14-10 victory in the last meeting against the Broncos in Round 20 last year.

iSelect Titans v Brisbane Broncos
Friday, April 5
7.30pm (AEST) ? Skilled Park

1 William Zillman
2 Kevin Gordon
3 Brad Takairangi
4 Jamal Idris
5 David Mead
6 Aidan Sezer
7 Albert Kelly
8 Luke Douglas
9 Matt Srama
10 Nate Myles
11 Greg Bird
12 Ben Ridge
13 Ashley Harrison
Interchange
14 David Taylor
15 Luke Bailey
16 Ryan James
17 Beau Falloon
18 Luke O?Dwyer
20 Steve Michaels

[timor 2]

Great To see Srama ok to play on the weekend...
Cheers Sean

[K2G]

It doesn't sound like Srama or Falloon are out of the woods with those injuries yet

http://www.titans.com.au/news-displa...-Round-5/71367

also concerning to hear about Sezer's soreness, hope they all pull up alright for friday night.

[gotitans101_]

Well the unfair 5 day turnaround isn't doing us any favours there. Hopefully those guys pull up OK by Friday.

[Boofhead]

Broncos: 1. Corey Norman 2. Josh Hoffman 3. Jack Reed 4. Justin Hodges 5. Lachlan Maranta 6. Scott Prince 7. Peter Wallace 8. Ben Hannant 9. Andrew McCullough 10. Sam Thaiday (c) 11. Alex Glenn 12. Matt Gillett 13. Corey Parker
Interchange: 14. Ben Hunt 15. Dunamis Lui 16. David Hala 17. Scott Anderson 18. Nick Slyney 20. Jarred Wallace

Officials: Referees: Shayne Hayne & Alan Shortall; Sideline Officials: Jeff Younis & Chris Butler; Video Referees: Bernard Sutton & Justin Morgan

Broncos are fighting Thaiday's charge.

[gotitans101_]

Broncos:

1. Corey Norman
2. Josh Hoffman
3. Jack Reed
4. Justin Hodges
5. Lachlan Maranta
6. Scott Prince
7. Peter Wallace
8. Ben Hannant
9. Andrew McCullough
10. Sam Thaiday (c)
11. Alex Glenn
12. Matt Gillett
13. Corey Parker

14. Ben Hunt
15. Dunamis Lui
16. David Hala
17. Scott Anderson
18. Nick Slyney
20. Jarred Wallace

Officials: Referees: Shayne Hayne & Alan Shortall; Sideline Officials: Jeff Younis & Chris Butler; Video Referees: Bernard Sutton & Justin Morgan

Thaiday named - are they contesting the charge?

edit: Yeah seems that way Boof. Like they don't have a leg up on us already with their BS 7 day turnarounds every week.

[TITAN PETE]

Thaiday will fight charge at NRL Judiciary
By Wayne Heming
AAP
Tue 02nd April, 4:00pm

Brisbane will head to the NRL judiciary to fight a contrary conduct charge levelled against club captain Sam Thaiday.

On the line will be Thaiday's place in Friday night's local derby with the Gold Coast at Skilled Park.

The Queensland forward has been hit with a contrary conduct charge by the NRL's match review committee arising from an incident involving referee Adam Devcich early in Brisbane's 32-26 loss to Melbourne last weekend.

Thaiday grabbed and tugged on Devcich's shirt as he tried to demonstrate how he'd been held back in a scrum by Melbourne prop Bryan Norrie, as Storm fullback Billy Slater ran through a big gap to score a try.

Replays showed Thaiday trying to break free of Norrie's hold during the scrum, and after the try was scored he angrily remonstrated with Devcich over the incident not being penalised.

Thaiday needs to beat the charge to play on Friday night as he has loading from a dangerous tackle suspension in 2011 which means an early guilty plea would not save him.

Brisbane decided to challenge the charge after consulting legal representatives on Monday night and again on Tuesday morning.

It's understood they will argue whether Thaiday's actions constituted contrary conduct.

NRL rules say if a referee is assaulted or unduly harassed by a player he should submit a report of the incident.

But Brisbane believe in Thaiday's case there was no malice or intent.

Losing Thaiday, back to his best against Melbourne, would be a damaging blow to Brisbane already under pressure following a disappointing 1-3 start to the season and battling injuries to experienced forward David Stagg and winger Josh Hoffman.

It's put added pressure on young prop Josh McGuire to make a hurried comeback from a torn calf suffered against St George Illawarra in round two last month.

Gold Coast front rower Luke Bailey has taken the early guilty plea for a similar offence to Thaiday and will be free to face the Broncos.

Manly prop Brenton Lawrence is clear to meet Canterbury on Friday after taking the early guilty plea for a dangerous throw on Wests Tigers centre Blake Ayshford last Thursday.

Canterbury centre Krisnan Inu took the early guilty plea for his grade four dangerous throw charge and will miss five weeks.

[TITAN PETE]

It will be very short odds that the Protected Species will get off the charge.

[thelwall]

just saying gordon has still got speed to burn

[teke]

just saying gordon has still got speed to burn

one day he might add a tackle bust to his resume

[TITAN PETE]

one day he might add a tackle bust to his resume

Flash is definatly the one player in the squad that needs to improve , he will be targeted by the Donkeys this Friday..

[Julius Sezer]

2nd best defensive team in the comp verses the 5th worst attacking team in the comp. (at the moment)

[Coaster]

I don't care about the score tbh.

I just want our massive forwards to dominate this Brisbane team into submission.

Massive pain delivered to our only Rival.

[Chaos]

Broncos don't have many attacking options and they bought Prince to help them in that area.
If we ran our big men at Prince all night, he wont have much in the tank to attack and Wallace is the worst attacking half in the comp.
If we did this and considering our current defense, they will be lucky to score over 12 points.