DREAMS CAN START WITH JUST ONE WIN

YOU know the famous Kevin Costner quote from Field of Dreams, “if you build it, he will come”?

That can well be applied to the Gold Coast Titans of 2018.

Over the years, Titans fans have had saga after saga.

In 2017 that primarily centred on the damaging feud between coach Neil Henry and marquee player Jarryd Hayne. The team’s on-field results wilted for it. Henry was axed and then Hayne left anyway.

The club have rapidly remodelled for the better in recent months.

For months the club have been saying – and doing – the right things. Recruit Leilani Latu ran on for his Titans debut last night against Canberra humbly waving to fans from every angle.

The only problem was, one look at the crowd of 10,238 for Gold Coast’s only game at Cbus Super Stadium before April 28 showed the repair job is not done yet. The southern stand was shut as it often is; the northern stand was scarcely populated; and to the east you could have been forgiven for thinking you were in the nation’s capital such was the sea of green Raiders jerseys.

For the diehard fan, they must have been fearing the worst when the Green Machine scored thrice inside 11 minutes.

It is going to take time to win back the average Joe – but they are on the right track. Pride-inspiring performances just like last night, plus a trouble-free year off the field, will only speed up the process.