Titans veteran tips spine to fire as Campbell returns in shake-up
RETURNING Titans prop Jarrod Wallace has declared the Gold Coast’s spine will be a more threatening prospect this week, as young gun Jayden Campbell announces his comeback.
Campbell has not been sighted in the NRL since succumbing to a rib cartilage injury in his side’s round three second-half capitulation against Canberra.
Wallace himself has been called back into the Titans side in a bid to arrest a five-game losing streak. He will now line up in the starting pack for the Magic Round clash with the Dragons on Saturday, and backed the club’s under fire spine to rise to the occasion.
The Gold Coast have copped plenty of criticism throughout their five-game losing run, with the men tasked as the team’s chief playmakers called out for an inability to challenge their rivals across 80 minutes.
But Wallace said Campbell’s injury had thrown their pre-season plans into disarray, having worked on finetuning his combination with halves AJ Brimson and Toby Sexton since veteran Jamal Fogarty’s exit.
“Having JC back, for AJ and Toby after doing a whole pre-season together, I think that’s going to be fantastic,” Wallace said.
“They’ve got the confidence together, I think after having a full pre-season that a so important and then having that broken up after JC got injured was hard. But I think we’ll find our spine will be completely different having all three back together.
“I just think our attack has been very slow for us this year. We’ve gone back to a team of oneup football, taking tackles and setting lines and that’s not us. We’re young, we’re energetic, and we play off the cuff footy.
“We haven’t seen that from us this year.”