Tough lesson for Ash in loss
TITANS coach Garth Brennan says the loss to the Broncos will serve as a big lesson for halfback Ash Taylor.
The Gold Coast’s finals hopes took a massive hit when they sunk to a 34-0 defeat to Brisbane, placing them eight points outside of the top eight.
Taylor came under fire for his performance at Cbus Super Stadium, in what was one of the young halfback’s worst games of the season.
Just one week after he was in talks to come into the Queensland Origin team, Taylor had an error-riddled night against his old club and failed to help the Titans fire. Brennan questioned after the match whether the disappointment of missing his Origin debut had hurt Taylor, but said it also served as a massive lesson for the 23year-old.
“He was talked about for Origin III and maybe he had a bit of disappointment about that,” Brennan said.
“But they’re things that maturity will hopefully (help) him adapt to those disappointments throughout his career.
“He’s going to have a lot more disappointments throughout his career than that.
“He’ll be the first to say his performance wasn’t where it needed to be, there’s no doubt about that.”
Brennan said, however, Taylor was not solely to blame for the match, with the whole team failing to put up enough of a fight against their Queensland “big brothers”.
With a clash against the fifth-placed Roosters looming on Sunday, Brennan said he would have a catch up with Taylor to talk about what went wrong against the Broncos.
But he said, overall, he knew Taylor would be more disappointed than anyone in how he played and would know what he had to do.
“Ash wouldn’t be happy with his performance,” he said. “He’ll learn from that and move on to next week.”
Meanwhile, halves partner AJ Brimson has been given the green light from the Titans to play for the Queensland Under-20s tomorrow.
Coach Justin Hodges unveiled his line-up yesterday, with Brimson to feature in the halves alongside Cowboys young gun Jake Clifford.
BULLDOGS centre Josh Morris will farewell the club this season after inking a two-year contract with Cronulla .
Morris had also been linked to the Gold Coast but will instead head to the shire to help replace the departing trio of Jesse Ramien, Ricky Leutele and Edrick Lee.