TITANS WELCOME BANDWAGONERS
Gold Coast carries the torch as Queensland’s last great NRL finals hope
THE Gold Coast Titans have thrown open the floodgates to the rest of the state as Queensland’s last remaining finals hope.
Coach Justin Holbrook has invited fans from across the nation’s great northeast to pledge allegiance to the Titans in the hope of bringing home the NRL premiership to Queensland once again.
For the second season in a row the Gold Coast is the pride of the NRL in the state.
The Titans are now only a handful of wins away from locking up the first finals berth for the state since Brisbane were knocked out in the first week of the 2019 series.
The club will test its finals worthiness on Saturday against the Rabbitohs with four straight wins on the line.
THE Gold Coast Titans have gone from being Queensland’s battlers to the Sunshine State’s great NRL finals hope - and they’re ready for you to jump on the bandwagon.
The Titans will head into Saturday’s clash against South Sydney at Cbus Super Stadium knowing a win will go close to guaranteeing them a droughtbreaking play-offs appearance.
They are the only Queensland club still in the mix for finals as the Brisbane Broncos and North Queensland Cowboys face back-to-back bottom four finishes.
The Titans have only played one finals game (2016) in the past decade and long played third-fiddle to the Broncos and Cowboys.
They were preliminary finalists in 2010 but took the wooden spoon in 2011 and 2019.
The Titans have been making up the numbers in the NRL for much of their existence but they have been Queensland’s No. 1 club for the past two seasons, finishing ninth in 2020.
With four games to play and a mostly favourable draw, optimism is high that the seventh-placed Titans will finish in the top eight.
The club is clearly moving forward under coach Justin Holbrook and he said support for the Titans from Queensland fans would be welcomed.
“That would be terrific to get extra support, we will take it,” he said.
The Titans are on a threematch winning streak but have two tough games coming up against the Rabbitohs (3rd) and Melbourne Storm (1st), both at home on the Coast.
If they can win either of those matches then they will be in a prime position heading into clashes against Newcastle (9th) and New Zealand (12th) in the last two rounds.
David Fifita will start on the bench for the fourth straight week for the clash against South Sydney.