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    Default Gold Coast Titans in crisis - is this the end of the road?

    Gold Coast Titans in crisis: Salary cap rort, fans walking away, no major sponsor and alleged drug charges; is this the end of the road?
    PHIL ROTHFIELD THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
    FEBRUARY 20, 2015 6:23PM

    The Gold Coast has long been a sporting graveyard for national competition franchises.

    One by one, code by code, just about everything has failed, flopped and eventually folded.

    The only exception being the Suns, propped up by $20 million-a-year in cash from the AFL and the presence of superstar Gary Ablett.

    Now another club is on life support and the question has to be asked …

    How long can the NRL keep propping up the Titans and will they become the next fallen franchise? Certainly they are on death row right now.

    The salary cap rort, the player misbehaviour, no major sponsor, falling crowds and the stench over Michael Searle’s previous management.

    Plus the multi-million dollar loans from the NRL just to stay afloat while every Sydney based club is left to struggle to make ends meet.

    It was hoped the appointment of former NSW minister for sport and NRL second-in-charge Graham Annesley 18 months ago would save the club.

    If anyone could turnaround the club it was Annesley. He hasn’t.

    Nor has Rebecca Frizelle, the highly successful businesswoman, who last year became chairman of the club on a restructured board.

    In fact this club has gone from bad to worse to woeful.

    The revelations of players being allegedly involved in a cocaine scandal should be the final straw for a club that has lost the support of the local community.

    Crowds last year slumped to an average of below 13,000, almost a 70 per cent decline on their early years in the competition.

    A relocation to Brisbane or Ipswich is the obvious answer.

    Not that you can predict the NRL’s next move or try to guess how the hapless integrity unit will handle it.

    Do they stand the players down immediately because of the seriousness of the charges?

    Do they wait to give them their day in court like they waited with Kirisome Auva’a last year after he’d pleaded guilty to serious domestic violence charges?

    Whatever happens, the Titans image has been battered beyond repair.

    Young hooker Paul Carter was sacked after twice being caught drink driving.

    Then Greg Bird was caught urinating on a police car in Byron Bay the day after his wedding.

    One by one franchises have come and gone on the Coast.

    Rugby league had the Chargers, the Seagulls and the Giants who all eventually folded in a volatile economic climate.

    Even big Clive Palmer and his billion-dollar bank account couldn’t sustain a soccer team in the A League.

    Basketball tried and failed with the Cougars, the Rollers and then the Blaze.

    Even the once world renowned Indy car race fell over.

    Sadly the Titans appear to be heading for the scrapheap as well.

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    Sad but true

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    yeah any one with a stick will whack us now.

    i think someone in the greyhound industry is behind this. well played

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    Rothfield, go root your boot..

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    If the Sharks can get through all the dramas they've had surely the Titans can get through this.

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    The club has done what it can, it has/is sacking these guys.

    The future looks pretty bleak at the moment, but I've already committed to 2015, so I might as well keep turning up.

    If nothing else the players really are playing for their future now. Not sitting on a big long term contract, not just training for a spot in the first #17, but turning up and putting in so they have a club to actually play for. Winning is the only solution from here.

    Nothing else matters, nothing else will change anything. Winning games is the only thing that matters now. Simple.

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    The NRL is contractually obligated to show x amount of live games per week, as per the TV agreement. As such, I would assume they're obligated to sustain our club in the short term for this reason as much as any.

    I believe the club will get through this.


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    Doth field is so full of **** and so wide of the mark here.
    PUT EM TO THE SWORD! SHOW SOME STEEL!

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    While this might not be the end there is no doubting that we are in strife. It's not good when your CEO questions why he is even at the club and 2-6 players are possibly caught in a drug scandal.

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    The Directors should be at the Bears on their knees right about now.
    Four reasons to escape to Queensland: Sun, Surf, Sand & the Titans.

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    Can always count on that old drunk Rothfield to write a positive story. Rebecca Wilson will crawl out of her hole next.
    Of course Rothfool fails to mention that the last League side to fold here was only because of the trade offs of the Super League war and at the time they were running at a profit.
    What has happened here is nothing compared to what his beloved Sharks have put the game through.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Titanic View Post
    The Directors should be at the Bears on their knees right about now.
    i was thinking the same. they have many things we lack

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    Oh well, I've seen enough of this **** storm for one day, time to have a couple of Bundy's 'n ride TC Marcia out for the night.

    Wish me luck..


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