Titans preview in yesterday's paper.
Titans preview in yesterday's paper.
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Love this club. Here's a tweet from Todd Balym
In a week of another bad NRL headline, it’s worth noting a true gentleman act. Titans players at captains run just moved their own tent into the car park so a fan in a wheelchair was protected from the rain while she watched them train.
No matter how bad we go on the paddock, at least none of our boys have requested nudes from school girls.
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The Titans are a ‘basket case’ who vowed to win a comp by 2025. This is how it won’t be fantasy
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“By 2025 the Gold Coast Titans will have won at least one premiership and will be a regular contender in the top eight.”
Those were the words of Rebecca Frizelle, Gold Coast Titans chair, on March 20, 2015.
Five years later, and the club’s trajectory has not gone quite how she envisaged.
From the 2015 season, the Titans have finished 14th (2015), 15th (2017). 14th (2018), 16th (2019).
Only once, in 2016, did they make the finals, crashing out in week one.
A meagre 19 victories over the last three seasons have seen them have a win rate of 26 per cent.
They have stumbled from crisis to crisis. Coaches have been and gone. Big-money signings have failed to fire.
Then there was a drugs scandal, followed by the crash-landing and swift takeoff of the ‘Hayne Plane’ as he left a sluice of debris in his wake.
When they came into the competition their average crowd was above 20,000. Last season a number of home games failed to break a five-figure gate.
It’s no wonder Phil Gould described them last year as a “basket case”.
It’s five years until Frizelle’s vision is expected to come to fruition.
So, if you dare to dream, picture this: Bryce Cartwright throws a two-man cut-out offload to Phillip Sami who beats Joey Manu for pace before passing back inside to Ash Taylor to score and win the 2025 Grand Final. Tino Fa’asuamaleaui is awarded the Clive Churchill Medal for running 300m as the Gold Coast deny the Roosters a seventh straight premiership.
It may seem unrealistic right now.
But Mal Meninga, for one, hopes that it is not pure fantasy.
He’s taken charge of recruitment at the club, doesn’t want to pay overs for players and wants to keep hold of the best Queenslanders available to them.
Crucially, the Immortal believes that finally the Titans have a coach to deliver them success.
Justin Holbrook joins from St Helens, with a brilliant record and the potential to put the sparkle back in the Glitter Strip club.
He’s a disciple of Trent Robinson. But going from St Helens, where winning is mandatory, to the Titans where it is a rarity, will be some shock to the system.
“That’s the challenge,” Meninga says. “He can come in with the right skill to mould the team, the team is his, and we’ll take a long-term view with Justin.
“We don’t want to be chopping and changing. We’ve got the upmost faith in him and his team and we believe that we’ve got a good enough roster to be competitive this year.
“We did our homework on him and he’s incredibly sound on a technical level, he has a good team around him. I rate him highly.
“But it’s managing that team, that is where his real strength lies.
“He’s got good empathy and great emotional intelligence and knows how to get the best out of teams. It’s shown already this off-season.”
A new coach, is all well and good.
But it doesn’t change the fact that the Titans have had a poor track record on the recruitment front.
Meninga has spoken in the past of having an ‘eco system’. Sounds sophisticated, but in essence it’s simple. He wants Queenslanders playing for the Titans. He wants the best young
Too often, the talent churned out by Keebra Park or Palm Beach Currumbin has been taken away by other clubs, see David Fifita, Payne Haas and Jahrome Hughes as just a few recent examples.
This year they have kept Sami, AJ Brimson and upgraded Moeaki Fotuaika. Good players, potential Origin ones, which indicates that finally the Titans might be going about their business in the right way
“Things are pointing in the right direction. But we can only be judged by what happens on the footy field. You can’t change a roster overnight. We haven't been good in a development sense over, but over the last 18 months we’ve started to see more of a genuine pathway for our local kids.”
A premiership?
“Every club has got aspirations to win one,” Meninga says. “We just want to be a better club, a better team, and who knows what might happen.”
It begins tonight against Canberra.
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Brimmson is gone until August with A Back Fracture.
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This is somehow Condon’s fault
They were bad days for our rehab for sure.
The best year was the Catterick trio for rehab time lengths and injury reduction. I was very disappointed they deserted Brennan after just one season.
Not sure about fitness though that year.
But something has gone terribly wrong here with AJ.
It’s a bigger blow by miles than the Kelly/Cartwright drama.
We need to know.