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Round 18: TITANS vs BRONCOS

Titans claim historic win over bumbling Broncos
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The Gold Coast Titans registered their first-ever season sweep of Brisbane with an 18-6 victory on Saturday at Cbus Super Stadium that also condemned the Broncos to a club-record ninth straight loss.

Playmakers Jamal Fogarty and Ash Taylor orchestrated an adventurous and expansive attacking game that was backed up by a physical and committed defensive effort which twice denied Brisbane players after they had crossed the tryline.

Brisbane had the possession to make a game of it in the second half but failed to show the same sort of creativity with the ball.

The Titans put the game away just three minutes into the second stanza with a marvellous team try ignited from in front of the posts inside his 10m line by Taylor and finished off by centre Young Tonumaipea.

Gold Coast led 12-6 at the break thanks to a mountain of possession and a heads-up play by winger Corey Thompson who punched the ball out of David Fifita's arm just before he touched down in the Titans in-goal.

The Broncos had defied the form line to score first when veteran fullback Darius Boyd got his hand to a grubber that took a lucky ricochet but hooker Mitch Rein evened the ledger soon after when he bulled his way over opposite Issac Luke from dummy half.

Rising rookie halfback Fogarty then gave the home team the lead when he kicked for veteran flanker Anthony Don and back-rower Sam Stone pounced after Corey Oates made a hash of his second successive high ball.
 
Great win. I have constantly bagged him but Peachey was excellent tonight. Worked hard, good defensive technique rather than arm grabs and no stupid penalties. If this is the Peachey we get every week we have our lock. Credit to Holbrook who has challenged him and I am guessing dangled the carrot of the 13 next year. Holbrook also had the foresight to keep Peachey starting even though Arrow is available, with an eye to next year. Love our coach.

Don't think Young is the answer in the centres next year (neither is Spry), but he did well containing Staggs tonight.
 
Just shared this on twitter.

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Match highlights anyone?

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Loved the team performance overall but we definitely need to invest in a centre for next year. I am just not seeing anything from Young T in attack and he seems to leave his halves very much exposed in defence. Kotoni has been weak defensively all year and yet Young never even looked likely of a line break or getting on his outside. For all the wraps I heard about him when he signed, he has been quite disappointing.
 
Great team effort and Perenara didn’t disappoint in that 2nd half.

The structure Holbrook has given this team is light years better than I have seen in any Titans team since inception.

Special mention tor Ash who had his best game for 2 years. He was immense in defence.

That 90 minute team try will be a contender for try of the year.

The only disappointment were our centres who really struggled all night.

I also thought Mo easily outpointed Haas
 
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Although YT wasn’t great on attack I thought defensively he was very aggressive. It wasn’t perfect but I thought he brought some physicality. That stop with AJ on our line was a match winner.
 
I can’t be bothered with any analysis tonight
All I have is sucked in Drongoes
Sucked in Pereneum trying to get them back in it

And Holbrook is a god of a man to get this roster playing like this
Hurricane Holbrook has been sent to us by the footy gods and must be treasured and supported

(And the two Jim’s)
 
Don't get me wrong I dislike Perenara as much as the next bloke but I honestly don't think he was particularly bias this game. Sometimes it just seems like he is a poor referee rather than bias in my opinion. Plenty of other fans don't like him either.

On YT being aggressive in defence, sure he may have been, probably had bias goggles on, but that did also leave Ash 1 on 1 with Fifita because he rushed out which annoyed me a bit. After that seeing his ineffective attack just wore thin especially that dud kick on 4th... wtf

Anyway out of the bottom 4. Extremely proud of the team this year and hopefully they can beat manly at the very least. Seeing Ash dominate DCE would be absolutely beautiful. Either way exciting times to be a Titans fan.
 
It was just great to be at the ground and feel the dislike for the Broncos tonight and to hear the boos as they ran on was music to my ears.
A bit of a grind in the second half but who cares - two wins over the Broncs this year.
I have been a great critic of Taylor but he was superb tonight.
As for Young, he had a shocker again, but who cares, we won.
 
Can't blame Fifita for failing to turn chicken **** into chicken salad. We get Stone, Fermor, Proctor and Hipgrave through the line every week. If we can train an athlete the caliber of Fifita back into hitting the line with some purpose instead of just turning him back inside with no momentum just to probe as the Bronco's have been he has the potential to be the best backrower in the comp.
 
awesome grind from our guys. lots of little efforts especially on the goal line that won us this match.

Ash was great, and had the job with Young T of handling Staggs and Fifi and they did a great job.

couple of other things - i agree Bods, the broncs looked huge and very intimidating in warm up... maybe that size is working against them this year, im not sure but the difference was noticeable and had me slightly concerned pre game.

secondly, i glad we beat them twice, and top QLD team or whatever... but we need to stop being happy with these small minded, consolation milestones from here on out. I could Tell coach was annoyed having to pretend to care about it when journos brought it up. Just focus on winning more games every year and these petty things become irrelevant. its almost embarrassing
 
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