A huge fan of the Bulldogs but first and foremost an fan of the game and the game needs the Gold Coast Titans!
From Leva Li's instagram
Congrats to the kid for earning a contract. Hope for big things from himProud to say I'll be a Titan for the next two years....
i know what you are saying, but i reckon DCe would have loved to drop the bomb during Haynes presser.
no reason for him to want it to be a big deal a day before new season, unless he is staying. if he is leaving manly i think hed want as little fuss as possible and to get back to the game.
A huge fan of the Bulldogs but first and foremost an fan of the game and the game needs the Gold Coast Titans!
i very much doubt there will be a press conference with Daly holding up a titans jersey if he signed with us. people can barely handle players signing for a season away as it is. he might do a doorstop presser, but i wouldnt be suprised if its just a press release. If he re signs with manly then he might sit at a table and announce it.
our club even making a song and dance about it would be classless also. we need to be big enough to know its a huge boost but not rub the games fans up by announcing a player that signed almost due to us going broke and getting bailed out.
it would be huge news for club he signs with and first on every sports bulletin and back page of papers if it was only a confirmed tweet from daly or his manager.
i feel like we will have different opinions on this no matter what, which is fine, and we shall see who is closer to the money in next couple of days i imagine.
There's not much win for anybody accept the player now - 50% of the fans will be ecstatic (that's us) and 50% will be peeved (that's them) but announcing it now-ish just detracts from whatever effort our blokes are going to put in which is really in poor taste.
Four reasons to escape to Queensland: Sun, Surf, Sand & the Titans.
Well put. Manly are trying to prepare for a game in 48 with this going on. If DCE announces he is coming here in the next few days/weeks then the likes of Sezer, Mortimer and LG wonder what the future is for them as the season just starts. You also have the situation that if DCE and Merrin have a couple of bad games people will say that they are already looking to next year. It's a very unsatisfactory situation allround.
I didnt state there would be a press conference or DCE holding any Titans gear. What I stated is that the decision will announced when it has the potential to get the most exposure. It may well come as a tweet or a press release or whatever but it'll come then.
Got to remember these days, the player is a brand in itself and any player manager worth their large pay checks knows this and wouldn't allow such a client to make such a huge and career defining decision be overshadowed by anything else.
A huge fan of the Bulldogs but first and foremost an fan of the game and the game needs the Gold Coast Titans!
Now that we have signed DCE I am super keen to see who else we can manage to sign. We need to be astute with signings and hopefully pick up some bargains.