Gold Coast Titans' Dave Taylor to fight grading as Canterbury Bulldogs' Krisnan Inu cops two-week ban

UPDATE: TITANS forward David Taylor's slim hopes of playing in this year's Origin series will hinge on a judiciary hearing on Wednesday.

DAVID Taylor's slim hopes of playing in this year's State of Origin series will hinge on an NRL judiciary hearing on Wednesday.

The Titans forward Taylor is disputing the grading on his Grade 2 dangerous contact charge stemming from his high shot on Peter Wallace in last weekend's fiery derby against Brisbane.

If successful, Taylor will be free to play in Sunday's game against Parramatta in Mudgee for one last showing before Queensland selectors pick their squad for Origin I in Sydney on June 5.

But if Taylor's bid falls short, he'll cop a three-match ban and be unavailable for the series opener at ANZ Stadium.

An early guilty plea would have seen Taylor sit out two weeks, but he risks missing a further match by opting to contest the grading.

The Bulldogs' Krisnan Inu has taken the early guilty plea and will miss two weeks for his "scorpion" tackle on James McManus.

Taylor's Titans teammate Luke Douglas (high tackle) and the Knights' Joseph Leilua (dangerous throw) have both avoided bans by taking the early guilty pleas on their Grade 1 charges.

Gold Coast coach John Cartwright believes the club has made the right call by disputing the grading of Taylor's charge.

"We just feel it's a little bit harshly graded and we'll go down there and take our chances,'' Cartwright said on Tuesday.

"You take everything into consideration. If we didn't think we could get him downgraded, we wouldn't go down and waste our time.

"We believe it was slightly on the high end of the grading and we'll go down and contest that. Hopefully we can get it down to a week and get him right for the Cowboys game (on June 2).''

Taylor was one of three players from the 32-6 loss to the Broncos unavailable for the clash with the Eels, along with injured pair Beau Falloon (broken ankle) and David Mead (broken jaw).

Cartwright has chosen young prop Mark Ioane to take Taylor's spot on the interchange bench while Anthony Don will replace Mead on the wing.

Matt Srama moves into the starting team at hooker in place of Falloon, with youngster Sam Irwin coming onto a five-man interchange bench with Luke O'Dwyer the 18th man.

Cartwright said Sunday's game loomed as a crucial one for the Titans after last weekend's thrashing and ahead of the Origin period.

"It's a really important game for us leading into a Cowboys game where we're going to be without the Origin boys,'' he said.

"Every game takes on pretty much a major importance now.''