Toads
Captain
Oh lordy..
Round 10: TITANS vs SHARKS
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gotitans101_
Coach
we really need some better forwards, they went nowhere in that first set of extra time. I hope this is something the club is looking at.
Titan4Life
Star Player
Absolutely heartbreaking....hate blaming a loss on one player but what the hell was Sezer doing?!? Set after set defending on our line and when we hold on, he twice kicks it too late/low and the Sharks charge the ball down. Having to do that much defending is bad enough let alone when we have 1 reserve with Mead, Zillman and Myles all injured.
Positives were Elgey, whose kicking game was outstanding and his pass at the end there was great, and Burr had a fairly good game as well. Good strong hit ups and hit solid in defence. Taylor also had an improved game and actually ran the ball hard this game.
Thought Roberts was really quiet. Can't seem to find a big enough gap in the last couple of weeks and got shut down a lot tonight. Sezer also had a crappy game for reasons previously mentioned.
Positives were Elgey, whose kicking game was outstanding and his pass at the end there was great, and Burr had a fairly good game as well. Good strong hit ups and hit solid in defence. Taylor also had an improved game and actually ran the ball hard this game.
Thought Roberts was really quiet. Can't seem to find a big enough gap in the last couple of weeks and got shut down a lot tonight. Sezer also had a crappy game for reasons previously mentioned.
TitansFan92
Junior
We deserved to lose that game. Second half was pathetic. So many errors it was bull****. I don't care that we were down to 16 men. Sezer needs to leave now and take Myles with him.
Hail Sezer
Moderator
We didn't deserve to win that one, in all honesty.
Aidan Sezer needs take a step back and let Elgey control that left. Yes, he may take some of his shine, but he provides better running, passing and kicking options than Sezer showed at any stage tonight. A shocker from our #6 and his last kick in golden point pretty much summed it up.
Burr was great with 42 tackles and 155m. James our next best forward and pretty solid once again.
Always going to be hard to win losing 3 of your most experienced players but when someone needed to take control, it just didn't happen. We went back to our old attacking structures. Weak tries either way but can't take much positive out of that performance.
Aidan Sezer needs take a step back and let Elgey control that left. Yes, he may take some of his shine, but he provides better running, passing and kicking options than Sezer showed at any stage tonight. A shocker from our #6 and his last kick in golden point pretty much summed it up.
Burr was great with 42 tackles and 155m. James our next best forward and pretty solid once again.
Always going to be hard to win losing 3 of your most experienced players but when someone needed to take control, it just didn't happen. We went back to our old attacking structures. Weak tries either way but can't take much positive out of that performance.
DIEHARD
Administrator
Titans go down in Golden Point
http://www.titans.com.au/news/2015/05/16/titans_go_down_in_go.html
A Valentine Holmes field-goal in the third minute of Golden Point extra time has handed the Gold Coast Titans a heartbreaking 23-22 loss to the Cronulla Sharks at Cbus Super Stadium.
After leading for a majority of the match the Titans lost David Mead, William Zillman and Nate Myles to injury and found themselves training 22-18 going into the final eight minutes but they managed to dig deep and score a late try through Anthony to force the match into extra time.
But it was the away-side who scored the fairy-tale finish after a strong first defensive set forced the Titans to kick from deep inside their half and gift the Sharks prime attacking position. Lead by the experienced Michael Ennis, the Sharks set-up for the field-goal and got an early ball away to Holmes who calmly slotted the kick to give his side the 23-22 victory.
After an arm-wrestle opening 25 minutes, it was the Titans who opened the scoring after Kierran Moseley got a deft ball away to Ryan James to barge across the line and with Aidan Sezer adding the extras the Titans took a 6-0 lead.
The Titans extended their lead in the 32nd minute when some strong online defence forced a Sharks pass to go astray and end up in the hands of David Mead who raced 90 metres down field to score untouched. Sezer converted from the sideline to give the Titans a 12-0 lead.
The Titans were gifted a penalty in front of the posts and opted to take the two points to extend their lead out to 14-0 going into final minutes of the half.
But the Sharks capitalised on the back of a Titans error deep inside their own half to post their first points through winger Valentine Holmes to reduce the Titans half-time lead to 14-4.
The Titans started the second-half strongly forcing back-to-back repeat sets and when gifted another penalty in front of the posts and they opted to take the goal to extend the lead out to 16-4 after 45minutes.
It wasn’t all good news for the Titans with Mead coming from the field with a hamstring injury forcing a backline reshuffle with James Roberts going to right wing and David Taylor filling in at right centre.
The Sharks took advantage of their own successive penalties in the 50th minute when Michael Ennis held-up a pass to a barnstorming Luke Lewis to cross next to the posts to give Michael Gordon an easy conversion to reel the score-line back to 16-10 in favour of the Titans.
Ill-discipline by the Sharks continued to gift the Titans easy points with another penalty in-front of the posts after a Lachlan Burr bust gave Sezer a further two points and the Titans a 18-10 lead with 25minutes remaining.
The Sharks responded in the 60th minute after Anthony Don dropped a Jack Bird bomb which bounced up perfectly for Holmes to grab his second try of the night before Gordon added the extras to reduce the Titans lead back to 18-16.
The Titans resulting kick-off went out on the full gifting the Sharks prime attacking position and they looked to have taken advantage when Josh Hoffman fumbled a grubber kick before Blake Ayshford cleaned it up but the video referee ruled he knocked it on in the process of grounding it.
The Titans lost William Zillman from the field with a knee injury forcing a further backline shuffle with Daniel Mortimer slotting in at left centre. Things got worse for the Titans with Myles being forced forced from the field with a possible concussion.
The Sharks took advantage of the injury-ravaged Titans with Michael Ennis throwing an inside pass to Bird to scoot through some staggered Titans defence to score next to the posts to give Gordon an easy conversion and the Sharks a 22-18 lead with six minutes remaining.
Some heavy defence by the Titans forced a Sharks error and the Titans capitalised with Kane Elgey throwing a brilliant cut-out pass to put Don over in the corer to tie the scores up at 22-all. Sezer’s conversion attempt sailed wide leaving the scored locked up going into the final four minutes.
Both sides had one last crack to break the deadlock but were unable to score the advantage and the game headed into Golden Point extra time.
The Sharks started the first period of extra-time strongly and forced the Titans to kick from deep inside their own half giving them first opportunity at the field-goal and they took full advantage when Holmes slotted the kick from in front to give the visitors the 23-22 win.
The Titans have the bye next week before taking on the South Sydney Rabbitohs in a fortnight at Cbus Super Stadium.
Cronulla Sharks 23 (V Holmes 2, L Lewis, J Bird tries; M Gordon 3 goals; V Holmes field-goal) defeated Gold Coast Titans 22(R James, D Mead, A Don tries; A Sezer 5 goals)
http://www.titans.com.au/news/2015/05/16/titans_go_down_in_go.html
A Valentine Holmes field-goal in the third minute of Golden Point extra time has handed the Gold Coast Titans a heartbreaking 23-22 loss to the Cronulla Sharks at Cbus Super Stadium.
After leading for a majority of the match the Titans lost David Mead, William Zillman and Nate Myles to injury and found themselves training 22-18 going into the final eight minutes but they managed to dig deep and score a late try through Anthony to force the match into extra time.
But it was the away-side who scored the fairy-tale finish after a strong first defensive set forced the Titans to kick from deep inside their half and gift the Sharks prime attacking position. Lead by the experienced Michael Ennis, the Sharks set-up for the field-goal and got an early ball away to Holmes who calmly slotted the kick to give his side the 23-22 victory.
After an arm-wrestle opening 25 minutes, it was the Titans who opened the scoring after Kierran Moseley got a deft ball away to Ryan James to barge across the line and with Aidan Sezer adding the extras the Titans took a 6-0 lead.
The Titans extended their lead in the 32nd minute when some strong online defence forced a Sharks pass to go astray and end up in the hands of David Mead who raced 90 metres down field to score untouched. Sezer converted from the sideline to give the Titans a 12-0 lead.
The Titans were gifted a penalty in front of the posts and opted to take the two points to extend their lead out to 14-0 going into final minutes of the half.
But the Sharks capitalised on the back of a Titans error deep inside their own half to post their first points through winger Valentine Holmes to reduce the Titans half-time lead to 14-4.
The Titans started the second-half strongly forcing back-to-back repeat sets and when gifted another penalty in front of the posts and they opted to take the goal to extend the lead out to 16-4 after 45minutes.
It wasn’t all good news for the Titans with Mead coming from the field with a hamstring injury forcing a backline reshuffle with James Roberts going to right wing and David Taylor filling in at right centre.
The Sharks took advantage of their own successive penalties in the 50th minute when Michael Ennis held-up a pass to a barnstorming Luke Lewis to cross next to the posts to give Michael Gordon an easy conversion to reel the score-line back to 16-10 in favour of the Titans.
Ill-discipline by the Sharks continued to gift the Titans easy points with another penalty in-front of the posts after a Lachlan Burr bust gave Sezer a further two points and the Titans a 18-10 lead with 25minutes remaining.
The Sharks responded in the 60th minute after Anthony Don dropped a Jack Bird bomb which bounced up perfectly for Holmes to grab his second try of the night before Gordon added the extras to reduce the Titans lead back to 18-16.
The Titans resulting kick-off went out on the full gifting the Sharks prime attacking position and they looked to have taken advantage when Josh Hoffman fumbled a grubber kick before Blake Ayshford cleaned it up but the video referee ruled he knocked it on in the process of grounding it.
The Titans lost William Zillman from the field with a knee injury forcing a further backline shuffle with Daniel Mortimer slotting in at left centre. Things got worse for the Titans with Myles being forced forced from the field with a possible concussion.
The Sharks took advantage of the injury-ravaged Titans with Michael Ennis throwing an inside pass to Bird to scoot through some staggered Titans defence to score next to the posts to give Gordon an easy conversion and the Sharks a 22-18 lead with six minutes remaining.
Some heavy defence by the Titans forced a Sharks error and the Titans capitalised with Kane Elgey throwing a brilliant cut-out pass to put Don over in the corer to tie the scores up at 22-all. Sezer’s conversion attempt sailed wide leaving the scored locked up going into the final four minutes.
Both sides had one last crack to break the deadlock but were unable to score the advantage and the game headed into Golden Point extra time.
The Sharks started the first period of extra-time strongly and forced the Titans to kick from deep inside their own half giving them first opportunity at the field-goal and they took full advantage when Holmes slotted the kick from in front to give the visitors the 23-22 win.
The Titans have the bye next week before taking on the South Sydney Rabbitohs in a fortnight at Cbus Super Stadium.
Cronulla Sharks 23 (V Holmes 2, L Lewis, J Bird tries; M Gordon 3 goals; V Holmes field-goal) defeated Gold Coast Titans 22(R James, D Mead, A Don tries; A Sezer 5 goals)
DIEHARD
Administrator
Titans v Sharks: Five things we learned from Gold Coast’s late loss
http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl/
FROM Valentine Holmes’s talent to Kane Elgey’s vision, here’s what we took from the Titans’ heartbreaking loss to the Sharks.
1. VALENTINE Holmes is an exceptional talent. He might have some errors in his game — which young gun doesn’t — but his finishing is superb. The Sharks winger scored two tries with brilliance and being in the right spot.
He then sealed the game with a match-winning field goal under intense pressure. He will develop into a fine player and another emerging talent for Mal Meninga’s Queensland Maroons.
2. KANE Elgey is clutch. The vision to throw the cut out pass for Anthony Don to level scores at the death was exceptional. The rookie Titans half-back might have had a quieter night by his standards, but to come up with that play at the right time was a sign he is a real talent for the future.
3. ANDREW Fifita must surely be recalled for NSW in Origin I. Is there a harder man to bring down in the NRL? His runs set the platform time and again for Cronulla and by full-time he had led the way with 18 runs for 130m, seven tackle breaks and 37 tackles.
4. THERE is a lot to like about Titans lock Lachlan Burr. Recruited from Canterbury where he couldn’t get a start in their monster pack, Burr could be the find of the Titans season with his work rate and hard-running. Doing a fine job filling Greg Bird’s jersey at the moment.
5. TITANS still can’t draw the support they probably deserve. Cronulla have one of the smaller supporter bases in the comp, but when the crowd of 10,466 can be heard chanting in protest at a call against the visiting team you know the attendance is not entirely behind the home team.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl/
FROM Valentine Holmes’s talent to Kane Elgey’s vision, here’s what we took from the Titans’ heartbreaking loss to the Sharks.
1. VALENTINE Holmes is an exceptional talent. He might have some errors in his game — which young gun doesn’t — but his finishing is superb. The Sharks winger scored two tries with brilliance and being in the right spot.
He then sealed the game with a match-winning field goal under intense pressure. He will develop into a fine player and another emerging talent for Mal Meninga’s Queensland Maroons.
2. KANE Elgey is clutch. The vision to throw the cut out pass for Anthony Don to level scores at the death was exceptional. The rookie Titans half-back might have had a quieter night by his standards, but to come up with that play at the right time was a sign he is a real talent for the future.
3. ANDREW Fifita must surely be recalled for NSW in Origin I. Is there a harder man to bring down in the NRL? His runs set the platform time and again for Cronulla and by full-time he had led the way with 18 runs for 130m, seven tackle breaks and 37 tackles.
4. THERE is a lot to like about Titans lock Lachlan Burr. Recruited from Canterbury where he couldn’t get a start in their monster pack, Burr could be the find of the Titans season with his work rate and hard-running. Doing a fine job filling Greg Bird’s jersey at the moment.
5. TITANS still can’t draw the support they probably deserve. Cronulla have one of the smaller supporter bases in the comp, but when the crowd of 10,466 can be heard chanting in protest at a call against the visiting team you know the attendance is not entirely behind the home team.
Hail Sezer
Moderator
That LG trademark..
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DavidBouveng
Coach
so sweet from LG.
short and sweet tonight. Burr looked his best yet. we need to lock him down before we have a Lg situation. not saying he is going to be the subject of a bidding war, but some clever club will see his value before he even fully shows it.
the captain and the leader of the backs both had poor games and would have best served us moving to their new suitors already.
we got alot of the good calls in first 50 mins and should have iced that game long before it even got close, but whenever we got up their end we got a penalty and took the two. we never actually had a crack until we were behind.
another close one and i hope henry and co are taking notes on who stands up when it gets tight.
all losses this year came without Bird..i was partial to him leaving but maybe i was wrong there. could be a co incidence, but no one can doubt he shows passion and spirit that the Captain does not
short and sweet tonight. Burr looked his best yet. we need to lock him down before we have a Lg situation. not saying he is going to be the subject of a bidding war, but some clever club will see his value before he even fully shows it.
the captain and the leader of the backs both had poor games and would have best served us moving to their new suitors already.
we got alot of the good calls in first 50 mins and should have iced that game long before it even got close, but whenever we got up their end we got a penalty and took the two. we never actually had a crack until we were behind.
another close one and i hope henry and co are taking notes on who stands up when it gets tight.
all losses this year came without Bird..i was partial to him leaving but maybe i was wrong there. could be a co incidence, but no one can doubt he shows passion and spirit that the Captain does not
teke
Coach
Myles was far from poor, Sezer just can't lead a team like others can
gotitans101_
Coach
finding it really hard to support this club right now. Not even joking...we looked better for a few games there but now it seems like we're back to square one.
I am all for looking for positives in games but it's getting to the point where even that is getting really old. It's no wonder our crowds are dead. We just lost to a rubbish team being the Sharks.
sorry, just feeling a bit down after that loss...and getting impatient with the so called 'rebuilding phase' of this club.
I am all for looking for positives in games but it's getting to the point where even that is getting really old. It's no wonder our crowds are dead. We just lost to a rubbish team being the Sharks.
sorry, just feeling a bit down after that loss...and getting impatient with the so called 'rebuilding phase' of this club.
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teke
Coach
The position the Titans are in now is why they chased Dce so hard. The gamble will pay off in the future
Agree absolutely, we really had no choice otherwise we would just have faded away into obserurity
gotitans101_
Coach
love the optimism re DCE but I have my doubts. Too many ineffective forwards to make us any good yardage for our halves to begin with. We were lucky we had so many piggyback penalties and Sharks errors to help us get down their end. White needs to go, and I'm not sure what everyone sees in Ben Ridge - ineffective, again.
downvote me for or whatever for picking on individual performances but I believe our forwards are the biggest problem in this team right now.
downvote me for or whatever for picking on individual performances but I believe our forwards are the biggest problem in this team right now.
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DavidBouveng
Coach
myles errors were costly. and his constant efforts trying to one-up fafita instead distracted him.
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i totally agree. i dont dislike White or Ridge, they just aren't very NRL relevant. in a game where the fifita bros, ennis, luke lewis and wade graham are all aggressively smashing into you, you cant leave it all to Ryan James and even Nate Myles to stand up.
i would be suprised if either got a new contract when that time comes.
At 16-4 up no one was bleating.
Yeah we lost, crappy at any time via golden point, but given the bench was down to 1 we still competed. Granted the 2nd half wasn't the best but we still competed and we didn't stop.
Years gone by we didn't do that.
You can't overlook the fact we have raw talent in there that will take time to gain experience like some of their opposition.
I'm disappointed we snatched defeat there......but I'm still in a better place and feel better about things than 12 months ago
Yeah we lost, crappy at any time via golden point, but given the bench was down to 1 we still competed. Granted the 2nd half wasn't the best but we still competed and we didn't stop.
Years gone by we didn't do that.
You can't overlook the fact we have raw talent in there that will take time to gain experience like some of their opposition.
I'm disappointed we snatched defeat there......but I'm still in a better place and feel better about things than 12 months ago
Burr was very poor in defense IMO, got dominated in contact continually but credit to him he kept going at it. Sezers game was poor. Was good to see Meady open up in full flight again, although perhaps a niggle is what has held him back in previous weeks and it tore tonight. Would love to see Roberts in a fullback type role that zillman plays to allow him to roam the field, Roberts onto one of those LG inside balls would be the goods. Duplicate James and his attitude in all facets of play an we would have a decent pack.
That was a terrible game to watch.
That was a terrible game to watch.
gotitans101_
Coach
That's not true. I said from the beginning it was a bludger of a game because both teams were rubbish tonight.
DavidBouveng
Coach
the raw talent wasnt the main problem, which is the problem.
but i am also in a much better place. i think most people still feel optimistic, but we have taken a step backwards in the last few rounds which is shame, but not totally unexpected
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