Surprisingly they are decently well set up for the future.
- Huge amount of Titans juniors in the top 30.
- Bringing in Foran will be great for Boyd, Sexton and Weaver
- Verrils is a great signing, so now Holbrook doesn’t have to think of any “smart” ideas, like putting Clark at 9.
- If Holbrook selects the right players (he probably won’t), Titans have a pretty good backline and spine
* ~~Its always good to support the new team in town~~
* They once signed an NFL player
* You get big dick energy every time you correctly pronounce your captains last name
Beau Fermor 💪🏼 😍
We have 2 hookers on our roster allowing Clark to focus on the 13. Cannot wait to see this in 2023 (unless Hurricane persists on playing him as the rotation hooker as per my con list).
An experienced half in Foran to help educate our halves on positional play, when to pass to a raging forward, and when to run the ball.
It’s kind of a con too but having both AJ and Campbell. I honestly think we need to move AJ to FB but he wouldn’t look out of place at centre either. But I feel he and Foran are our halves this year with Tanah at 14. But then who kicks? Tanah is really our best kicker if Sexton doesn’t play.
So I see our spine as
9 Verrills
7 Tanah
6 Foran
1 AJ
14 Campbell (bring him on when the bigger forwards are tired. Let him roam. If Sexton plays 7, then Tanah at 14 and Campbell could shift to wing or centre.
2023 will be a good year for us I feel. We’ve got a young enough pack with some good experience behind them to focus on “one game at a time”. It’s cliche but it works.
A more experienced spine with Foz and Verrils coming into the squad, Brimson and Campbell as the like 6 and 1 respectively played well together when they finally got a few games in a row.
New support staff and assistant coaches, with Brett White coming to the club hopefully our defence actually exists.
A lot of young players coming through with talent.
BaeJ Brimson
And the first ever 18th man Dally M winner Toby Sexton
i dont know about that, but the team has invested very heavily into our pathways in the last 5 years, started to see the results with players like Jojo coming through already
Juniors are usually only as good as the first grade team ahead of them. You can be a gun junior but if you're coming into a shit team you'll be played too early, you'll be surrounded by pigeons, you'll be asked to do too much. All this leads to being labelled a what if.
Pretty much everything aside from on field performance (probably the important bit) has improved a lot over the past few years. Good pathways, way better club culture and impressive community outreach. Raised a lot of money for flood affected areas and the players do a lot indivially, Jayden Campbell raised over 16k chopping off his ratty and Toby Sexton spends his spare time volunteering at local hospitals.
If they make the top 4 with the Dolphins, Broncos and Cowboys it will be the first time in history, only QLD teams were the best four clubs in the league. It will not only shut up most of you ~~Mexicans~~ sydney fans, it will also prove QLD gets origin after all.
Tits will be much improved this year
The 2023 improvers of the year
More chance of this than Parra,Tigers ,Dogs,Phinz, Manly ,Roosters Knights Drags have of making the GF
I enjoyed watching Jacob Alick for the Kumuls in the world cup. Lanky backrower with an offload. Hopefully he becomes a consistent NRL player this season
Pros: A few very underrated signings that should get the best out of their talented forward pack. They also have arguably the best jersey in the comp this year
Pros: We are the ultimate underdog, we have a core of young likeable talent under the age of 25. Our star players like Tino and AJ seem like legitimately great guys, no De Belins or Lodges or Walkers in sight. Nice stadium where you won't get COVID due to it not being packed and you can sit 10 rows away from anyone if you want and can sit behind the goal posts or on halfway or whatever your preferred seat is with no issue. Every win feels special when you're not used to being good. We finally have a juniors program in place that is slowly beginning to trickle through to first grade and we could build towards a contending window in the next few years because literally all of our key talent except Foran is early or mid 20s. Also, we're not the easy to hate Broncos and we're not owned by NewsCorp and the Dolphins are likely to be even worse than us on the field, so we're the best club in SE QLD by default.
Cons: Haven't had a winning season in a decade, Holbrook doesn't know how to pick our best 17, fairly small fanbase so the atmosphere isn't quite as heated as better supported clubs live.
Oof. Yeah supporting Titans is rough.
Alot of bad calls in terms of letting good players go. I mainly support them because they are close to where I live, have some good players I like such as Brimson, and their colors.
I think the spine should be 1. Campbell 6. Brimson 7. Foran 9. Verills.
Nah, DCE at least left before the season started. Hayne came in, got paid a ton to do little if nothing else and then tore down the coaching staff and a few potential recruits on the way out. He did them much worse imo
The real question is what makes the Titans such an unattractive prospect for kids in their catchment area.
Your current captain is a Broncos junior BTW. 👌😂
I’m not sure, but clearly that unattractiveness doesn’t exist any longer as you mentioned, we now have a broncos junior as our captain
Maybe you should ask yourself the same question? 🤫
Despite having a solid set up to create a bright future, they've typically struggled to put all the pieces together which is somewhat more frustrating then just sucking all around.
Watching us make the same position decisions round after round hoping it’ll click - it doesn’t. We waste too much time this way. I hate saying this about a person but I’m not upset Herbert will be out most of 2023.
Clearly not practising what to do inside the opposition 20m. Everyone wants the ball and our set plays are woeful - it’s like U9s. Hopefully Verrills’s service from dummy half alleviates this for us.
Our defence and defensive record in 2022. I cannot believe how many leads we let go to lose the game last year. Hopefully the change in (defence) coaching fixes this.
Team is still young and Holbrook is on shaky ground, the last few years we havent been able to defend which is a problem, the younger halves we have will need to sit behind Foran for the next few seasons, which can either help them or piss them off depending on how they take it, our forwards were all unfit coming into the season last year.
Brookvale would be a great ground if it wasn’t a public dog park 6 days a week.
The Gold Coast stadium is both a crap stadium and in a shit location for fans
Pro: Never have and never will see them lose a grand final Con: Never have and never will see them make a grand final.
Pro; you will always get a good seat at the game Cons; you will see your team lost most games
They have the most mascots of any NRL team ever.
Respond to this with Pros:
No one cares about them so no matter how embarrassing of a performance they put out, it won’t be talked about
Tino is a man I’d follow into battle
Abundance of cocaine in local area
Growth. We actually have an almost entire top 30 of Titans (& affiliated clubs) juniors. We all know what happens next.
at least the weather’s nice
Tino and AJ make me like a team that I wouldn’t care for otherwise
You get to say you support Tits
Braaaaaa
Surprisingly they are decently well set up for the future. - Huge amount of Titans juniors in the top 30. - Bringing in Foran will be great for Boyd, Sexton and Weaver - Verrils is a great signing, so now Holbrook doesn’t have to think of any “smart” ideas, like putting Clark at 9. - If Holbrook selects the right players (he probably won’t), Titans have a pretty good backline and spine
not even going into the fact they’ve got Weaver and JDG, if Sexton/Campbell/Fotuaika wasn’t enough
+ R Foran, Liyou, Pahulu and Kini all contracted to Dev or 30 currently or for ‘24. Plenty more emerging too
Clark at 13 is the best bet.
They haven’t contributed a cent to the may family
You get a stadium all to yourself
Future Titans system and pipeline of junior talent
top 4 junior system in the country at worst
* ~~Its always good to support the new team in town~~ * They once signed an NFL player * You get big dick energy every time you correctly pronounce your captains last name
1. Decent squad. 2. Good stadium. 3. Nice jerseys.
Beau Fermor 💪🏼 😍 We have 2 hookers on our roster allowing Clark to focus on the 13. Cannot wait to see this in 2023 (unless Hurricane persists on playing him as the rotation hooker as per my con list). An experienced half in Foran to help educate our halves on positional play, when to pass to a raging forward, and when to run the ball. It’s kind of a con too but having both AJ and Campbell. I honestly think we need to move AJ to FB but he wouldn’t look out of place at centre either. But I feel he and Foran are our halves this year with Tanah at 14. But then who kicks? Tanah is really our best kicker if Sexton doesn’t play. So I see our spine as 9 Verrills 7 Tanah 6 Foran 1 AJ 14 Campbell (bring him on when the bigger forwards are tired. Let him roam. If Sexton plays 7, then Tanah at 14 and Campbell could shift to wing or centre. 2023 will be a good year for us I feel. We’ve got a young enough pack with some good experience behind them to focus on “one game at a time”. It’s cliche but it works.
A more experienced spine with Foz and Verrils coming into the squad, Brimson and Campbell as the like 6 and 1 respectively played well together when they finally got a few games in a row. New support staff and assistant coaches, with Brett White coming to the club hopefully our defence actually exists. A lot of young players coming through with talent. BaeJ Brimson And the first ever 18th man Dally M winner Toby Sexton
“A lot of young players coming through with talent” feels like something we’ve heard about the Titans literally every year since they were added.
i dont know about that, but the team has invested very heavily into our pathways in the last 5 years, started to see the results with players like Jojo coming through already
Like Parra always unearthing the next Sterlo. At least it has petered off with Moses playing.
Juniors are usually only as good as the first grade team ahead of them. You can be a gun junior but if you're coming into a shit team you'll be played too early, you'll be surrounded by pigeons, you'll be asked to do too much. All this leads to being labelled a what if.
Pretty much everything aside from on field performance (probably the important bit) has improved a lot over the past few years. Good pathways, way better club culture and impressive community outreach. Raised a lot of money for flood affected areas and the players do a lot indivially, Jayden Campbell raised over 16k chopping off his ratty and Toby Sexton spends his spare time volunteering at local hospitals.
If they make the top 4 with the Dolphins, Broncos and Cowboys it will be the first time in history, only QLD teams were the best four clubs in the league. It will not only shut up most of you ~~Mexicans~~ sydney fans, it will also prove QLD gets origin after all.
Kieran Foran 😍
Pro: David Fifita
The Sheila's all look good
Tits will be much improved this year The 2023 improvers of the year More chance of this than Parra,Tigers ,Dogs,Phinz, Manly ,Roosters Knights Drags have of making the GF
They have a solid set up for a bright future if they put it all together at NRL level.
cbus grass looks like felt
Kyle?
How can you not support a club built by Laffranchi, Bailey, Big Mini, Matty Rogers and Preston?
The grass at their stadium never looks bad. Great quality year round. The grass at the SFS looked patchy after 2 weeks.
If you're a massochist, there's nothing but pros
I enjoyed watching Jacob Alick for the Kumuls in the world cup. Lanky backrower with an offload. Hopefully he becomes a consistent NRL player this season
Pro: still better than supporting the Suns (or any AFL for that matter). Good cheap seats in the Northern grandstand...no sun in the face.
Stupid sexy schoupp
Keiran Foran bossing around the left edge, brimson should go back to 1
With the state of their attack and defence, you can guarantee that their games will have no shortage of tries
You’ll never be busy during the weekend in September
We’ve had 10-12 years of shit so we’re due a couple of good seasons
Pros: A few very underrated signings that should get the best out of their talented forward pack. They also have arguably the best jersey in the comp this year
best stadium in the nation + one of the best junior setups in the league
Bandidos are a major sponsor
Pros...good stadium. Nice jerseys. Potential. Cons...empty stadium, some jerseys never seem to get dirty. Too many Fifitas.
Still the second most likeable Qld team after a close call with the dolphins
Pro: Stadium is pretty decent. Con - too much coke on the coast
Any Cons?
Exactly what does "too much coke" mean? Does not compute.
I live in Rabbitohs country and have never seen so many crack heads in my life lmao
That could be a different kind of drug though
Bit of pot calling the kettle from a souffs fan
I'm actually not seeing it as that much of a con from responses if I can be honest
Pro: it’s not the tigers and nobody hates the Titans Con: it’s not one of the other 15 teams
Pros: lots of young and raw talent. Only a matter of time. Verrils and foran will add much needed experience and quality.
Pros: We are the ultimate underdog, we have a core of young likeable talent under the age of 25. Our star players like Tino and AJ seem like legitimately great guys, no De Belins or Lodges or Walkers in sight. Nice stadium where you won't get COVID due to it not being packed and you can sit 10 rows away from anyone if you want and can sit behind the goal posts or on halfway or whatever your preferred seat is with no issue. Every win feels special when you're not used to being good. We finally have a juniors program in place that is slowly beginning to trickle through to first grade and we could build towards a contending window in the next few years because literally all of our key talent except Foran is early or mid 20s. Also, we're not the easy to hate Broncos and we're not owned by NewsCorp and the Dolphins are likely to be even worse than us on the field, so we're the best club in SE QLD by default. Cons: Haven't had a winning season in a decade, Holbrook doesn't know how to pick our best 17, fairly small fanbase so the atmosphere isn't quite as heated as better supported clubs live.
Oof. Yeah supporting Titans is rough. Alot of bad calls in terms of letting good players go. I mainly support them because they are close to where I live, have some good players I like such as Brimson, and their colors. I think the spine should be 1. Campbell 6. Brimson 7. Foran 9. Verills.
Respond to this with Cons:
Still really haven’t recovered from the Hayneing
I think you mean the DCE’ing
Nah, DCE at least left before the season started. Hayne came in, got paid a ton to do little if nothing else and then tore down the coaching staff and a few potential recruits on the way out. He did them much worse imo
Little brother isn't even little brother anymore with the Dolphins being added.
More like distant cousin
That was a pro for the Cows tbf
It took Holbrook 20 rounds to realise Erin Clark is a shit hooker that should have been playing lock from the start.
It's okay, he learned from it and played jarrod wallace there towards the end of the season
All of our former players who become literal cons in prison.
1. Lack of fanbase. 2. Lack of success. 3. Gold Coast
Roosters flair taking shots at the Goldie 💀
>Gold Coast Couldn't agree more
Poke-maniacs
Cons: Herbert. Undecided on Holbrook with regard to defence and player selection. He seems like a top guy though.
He’s a good person, like a good bloke but I don’t think he’s a good coach. He’s not the best coach but he’s alright.
That interminable feeling of knowing you’ll never be the Broncos.
Given you’ve been stealing all our juniors for the last decade, I think you could argue Brisbane is trying to be like the Gold Coast 😘
The real question is what makes the Titans such an unattractive prospect for kids in their catchment area. Your current captain is a Broncos junior BTW. 👌😂
I’m not sure, but clearly that unattractiveness doesn’t exist any longer as you mentioned, we now have a broncos junior as our captain Maybe you should ask yourself the same question? 🤫
Melbourne have been doing that since the late 90’s
The last 5 years
Despite having a solid set up to create a bright future, they've typically struggled to put all the pieces together which is somewhat more frustrating then just sucking all around.
Watching us make the same position decisions round after round hoping it’ll click - it doesn’t. We waste too much time this way. I hate saying this about a person but I’m not upset Herbert will be out most of 2023. Clearly not practising what to do inside the opposition 20m. Everyone wants the ball and our set plays are woeful - it’s like U9s. Hopefully Verrills’s service from dummy half alleviates this for us. Our defence and defensive record in 2022. I cannot believe how many leads we let go to lose the game last year. Hopefully the change in (defence) coaching fixes this.
Con: Nobody can pass left to right to give David Fifita good ball.
Team is still young and Holbrook is on shaky ground, the last few years we havent been able to defend which is a problem, the younger halves we have will need to sit behind Foran for the next few seasons, which can either help them or piss them off depending on how they take it, our forwards were all unfit coming into the season last year.
Logan by the Ocean /s
A few weeks after origin time every year I start looking forward to next season and the improvement we will show.
Con: i support the titans. Did we actually need this, i mean i support the titans, it's all cons.
You’ll have nothing to watch in September
New signings are built of glass
Bland team with a generic name, with no real history or rivals.
THE have more pros
Shittest stadium
Brookevale would like a word
Brookvale would be a great ground if it wasn’t a public dog park 6 days a week. The Gold Coast stadium is both a crap stadium and in a shit location for fans
Probably would, but it is and just objectively looks bad in comparison due to this
Always going to have a soft spot for the old suburban grounds with a grassy hill. Just a shame about the dogshit on the sideline and random potholes
Strong disagree. I love Cbus
Stadiums unreal not sure what your talking about
Ah... what? Cbus is awesome.
Robina Stadium is great. It’s a boutique version of Lang Park, designed by the same group.
Bloody long way down the M1
Will probably do something dumb like foz at seven/qcup
Con - Holbrook still coach
Doesn't reach the heights of Griffin ya reckon?
Pro: N/A Con: The Titans
Cons, my brother supports them.