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It was too good to be true. After years of pre-season drama, the Titans looked like entering the 2016 season with little to no distractions off the field.
That was until yesterday when speculation arose that Greg Florimo and his North Sydney Bears are looking to partner with the Titans.
Their intention is not to buy the Titans but rather form a partnership for nothing and reap all the benefits. They propose for the Titans to be renamed the Gold Coast Bears, take games to the Central Coast and don a black and red playing strip.
They want all this to be just handed to them without paying a cent.
The North Sydney Bears have recently realised that they’ll never return to the NRL. So now they are looking to capitalise on all the hard work the Titans have done and gain a free admission back into the competition.
This cannot be allowed.
After a forgettable five years, the Titans have finally left the dark days behind them and are ready to rebuild back into the side that got them 80 minutes away from a grand final birth in 2010.
The Titans now have a half in Kane Elgey that they can build a team around and a junior system in which fans can be proud of. Gold Coast is a side on the rise and one that will be competitive again in the near future.
So why halt that by taking everything they’ve worked so hard for and dumping them with an unwanted history like North Sydney’s? A history which is laughed at, mainly for their inability to win a premiership since the 1920s.
The majority of the rugby league community see this as something to be praised – the long awaited return of the Bears! Has anyone stopped to ask Titans fans how they would feel about this?
The NRL and Florimo can’t be serious if they think that this won’t have repercussions. Titans fans will walk. Queensland won’t support a team from south of the border and after the hype of their return has dissipated, they will fold once again.
Gold Coast have worked hard to survive and put a history of failure behind it. They don’t deserve this. The fans don’t deserve this. Florimo doesn’t deserve this.
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