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The Gold Coast Titans have made a huge signing with former Sydney Roosters CEO Brian Canavan arriving at the struggling franchise.
Canavan will leave the Roosters having spent 18 years at the club and will take on the newly created role of Chief Operating Officer following a review into the club’s operations.
Titans CEO Graham Annesley praised the major coup and highlighted his experience in football operations and administration at the top level.
“Brian is not only an experienced rugby league administrator, he is also a quality individual who will further add to the public credibility of this club as we continue to rebuild an improve”, the former New South Wales Minister for Sport and Recreation stated.
“Over the course of his 18 years at the Roosters, Brian has been an integral part of the management of one of the most successful clubs in the game. His acquisition by the Titans is as important as any other made in the club’s short history.”
The appointment of Canavan as COO is the final component of a review that took place over 18 months with the former Roosters executive taking charge of football, commercial and finance operations the three key departments as posed by the review which will also see the club become more commercially focused.
Canavan has previously worked as strength and conditioning coach, and development manager at the Brisbane Broncos in 1988-89, assistant coach and football manager at the Cronulla from 1992-93 and as Queensland Maroons strength and conditioning coach from 1989-1994 before arriving at the Roosters as assistant coach, football manager and CEO in 1994.
He then left the club for four years before returning in 2012 and is a member of the Rugby League Research Board, Country Rugby League Audit and Risk Committee, NSWRL Second Tier Structure/Competitions Review Committee, UNSW Education Advisory Committee and a fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.
Former Titans player Anthony Laffranchi will also join the Titans’ staff as interim Football Operations Manager following the departure of Ian Buchanan who had been with the club since 2005 after their licence was granted by the NRL.
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