Queensland rookies’ sobering reality check
Loaded with potential, Brisbane’s Xavier Coates and Cowboys sensation Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow have yet to put it all together consistently on the football field.
Loaded with potential, Brisbane’s Xavier Coates and Cowboys sensation Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow have yet to put it all together consistently on the football field.
What makes Dragons star Zac Lomax the king of the new breed of centres is a particular ability that none of his contemporaries can, so far, match.
Simply put, Brisbane got less quality football out of their halves than any other team in the competition. But the only place to go from rock bottom is up.
What Peter V’landys wants he usually gets but there’s been an unenthusiastic response to his latest grand plan. Buzz’s highlights, lowlights.
BRISBANE’s hopes of retaining Corey Oates have received a boost with Queensland rivals the Cowboys and Titans insisting they will not enter a bidding war for the Origin ace.
TITANS captain Ryan James has put aside his NSW State of Origin heartbreak to win the Gold Coast’s player of the year award for the second time in three years.
AS the leading contender to win the Gold Coast’s Paul Broughton Medal, Jai Arrow can look back on his first season on the Gold Coast with pride. But the Titans lock already knows what he must to do get better next year.
TYPICAL Johnathan Thurston. The champion couldn’t help but leave us with one final act of magic. JT orchestrated the match-winning play against the Titans in his final NRL game.
THE struggling Dragons have received mixed injury news ahead of the finals with Gareth Widdop a certain starter, but Jack De Belin in doubt.
IT’S over. Johnathan Thurston’s career has ended with one final classic performance. Re-live the brilliance from the win over the Titans right here.
TITANS fullback AJ Brimson is a star in the making, but little did we know he is tough too. The 19-year-old played through a broken hand and busted shoulder just to finish off the season!
JOHNATHAN Thurston ensured the Titans would finish 2018 with a loss but the end of one superstar might have seen the birth of another with AJ Brimson shining again.
TITANS v COWBOYS: Teams have been named for the round 25 clash between Gold Coast and North Queensland and the Titans have thrown a Carty party for Johnathan Thurston.
THE Titans are going to go as hard as they can at Johnathan Thurston in the legend’s last game — after all, the Cowboys star wouldn’t want it any other way.
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