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Gold Coast Titans
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Club information
Full nameGold Coast Rugby League Club
ColoursLight Blue, Gold and White
Founded2007
Current details
Ground(s)
CEOMichael Searle
CoachJohn Cartwright
Captainn/a
CompetitionNational Rugby League
Records
Premiershipsn/a
Wooden spoonsn/a

The Gold Coast Titans will become the 16th Team in the National Rugby League when they enter the competition in the 2007 season. As their name states, they are based on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

History of the Titans' bid

In 2003 Michael Searle and Paul Broughton began pushing for the re-instatment of a Gold Coast Team in the National Rugby League in 2006. In the second quarter of 2004 the Gold Coast Consortium, as they had become known, announced their team name and jersey at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre during an episode of Channel 9's The Footy Show. The team was to be known as the Gold Coast Dolphins and their colours would be white, jade and orange. The Dolphins moniker was very popular, however the Redcliffe Dolphins, which is the Queensland Cup's most successful team, threatened legal action if the Dolphin's name was used in the Gold Coast team.

In mid-2004 the NRL announced that after viewing submissions from the Gold Coast Dolphins, the Central Coast Bears and Wellington, there would not be a 16th team in the 2006 NRL Competition. The major hurdles for the Gold Coast team, which was by far the favourite to get the nod if the 16th license was granted, was the use of the Dolphins name, and that their homeground, Carrara Stadium, was an oval and only seated 16,000.

Acceptance

Since the rejection of the Gold Coast's bid in 2004, the consortium did not give up in their quest for a Gold Coast NRL team. They dropped the Dolphins nickname, and the Queensland Government announced that they would spend $100 million on a new, rectangular stadium for the Gold Coast Team, should they be accepted. On May 27, 2005, the NRL CEO David Gallop announced that the Gold Coast had been accepted into the 2007 NRL competition. This coincided with the announcing of a new television deal with Channel 9, taking effect from 2007.

Search for a name

The Gold Coast RLFC, along with a Gold Coast radio station, set up a competition where listeners could submit possible names for the new team. This was shortlisted into 10 names, and people could vote on which of the ten they most preferred on the team's then-website, www.goldcoastrugbyleague.com.au. These 10 names were narrowed down to 3, which were:

  • Gold Coast Titans
  • Gold Coast Stingers
  • Gold Coast Pirates

The most popular name was the Titans, and the team name Gold Coast Titans was announced on 21 September, 2005.

Players

As of this time the club has officially signed 14 players for the 2007 season. These players being:

Home ground

The Gold Coast Titans will play their debut season at Carrara Stadium, and will play out of the new Gold Coast Stadium to be built at Robina in 2008


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