Sports gossip: Titans target, star recruit and X-rated admission

Gold Coast sporting gossip guru the Sniper is back with all the latest news.

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GC600

FORGET about the traffic chaos during the GC600 – spare a thought for the commuters on Monday morning.

With the party wrapped up, teams and their 300km/hr machines were forced to head home ... at about 4km/hr on the back of a truck.

The convoy of carriages in turn slowed traffic on Monday morning as police escorts waved them through red lights and stop signs, much to the friendly frustration of commuters.

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RUBGY LEAGUE

COULD Cody Walker be on his way back to the Titans?

The Sniper hears that the northern NSW product could be shown the door by South Sydney and Gold Coast looms as one suitor.

Cody Walker. AAP Image/Lukas Coch

At 29 he still has a few good seasons in him and is another local product who could be brought home.

However a few more puzzle pieces may need to move before we get too excited, so watch this space.

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CRICKET

THE Bulletin sports team will know not to call a prominent Gold Coast cricketer too early on the weekends from now on.

Contacted by a Bulletin reporter at 9am on Sunday, this player was still asleep but forged on with the interview anyway.

Minutes later, a coach from a different Coast sporting club was also woken by the same reporter.

GC600

GARTH Tander may have won the GC600 on Sunday but the Supercars driver missed something just as good.

“One thing I was disappointed with was I didn’t realise (British DJ) Carl Cox was playing on the weekend,” he said.

Carl Cox. (Photo by Mirco Lazzari gp/Getty Images)

“Growing up he was the man.

“I was bummed and didn’t realise until afterwards cos I would have been there.”

RUGBY UNION

CLUB rugby types were kept on their toes during Thursday night’s Super Schools launch as district president Kim Bending reached decades back into a schoolteacher’s arsenal.

Gold Coast rugby union chairman Kim Bending. Picture: Jerad Williams

Bending patrolled centre stage armed with a rugby ball ready to catch out any inattentive soul bold enough to glance at a mobile phone during his presentation.

“Hey sniper!*” was their only warning before the ball was launched at their heads.

Three or four victims showed brilliant reaction times before the message sank in for the rest: pay attention, folks.

*Names changed to protect the guilty.

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GC600

DAVE Reynolds sent the rest of Sunday’s Gold Coast 600 podium into stitches at the post-race press conference with an X-rated admission.

Reynolds finished third in Sunday’s race, overcoming an illness that left him with a squeakier voice than the Sniper at his Year 9 school disco.

Bathurst champion Dave Reynolds (front, left). Picture: Mark Stewart

When asked by an unsuspecting journo to assess his “position” going into Sandown, Reynolds took the question in a different direction.

“Doggie,” the driver squawked into the microphone.

Craig Lowndes, Shane van Gisbergen and Jamie Whincup were left in tears of spluttering laughter.

Just as things calmed down Reynolds’ co-driver Luke Youlden sent the room back, adding he liked it in missionary.

CRICKET

TALK about putting the mocker on.

A day after talking up Helensvale Pacific Pines’ Kookaburra Cup hopes, the Hawks’ winning start to the season came to an abrupt end with a 99-run thumping from Mudgeeraba Nerang on Saturday.

Led by a Kevin Chapman ton, the Bushmen piled on 1-255 before keeping Helensvale to 7-156.

Sorry, Hawks fans!

RUGBY LEAGUE

WHICH Gold Coast club is giving its female players media training in the latest move to improve professionalism?

It’s definitely a decision welcomed by the Bulletin sports team and can only be a good thing for the game.

RUGBY LEAGUE

FINALLY on rugby league, a former NRL journeyman of the 1990s will take up a new off-field role with a Gold Coast club in the coming days.

A 134-gamer at the top level, this person has also spent time as an NRL assistant coach and will be a valuable addition at his new home.

RACING

SOME of sports most well-known figures will headline the Gold Coast Turf Club’s inaugural All Stars Race Day next month.

On Saturday 16 November, a huge sport star line-up including Gordon Tallis, Kevin Walters, Darren Lehmann, Dayne Zorko, Alfie Langer, Gretel Tippet and Gabi Simpson will bring their best banter to the Gold Coast Turf Club Events Centre.

Gold Coast Turf Club CEO Steve Lines the event had been brewing for the past tw years.

“We believe it will become somewhat of an iconic raceday on the Coast,” Lines said.

The All Stars Race Day is a ticketed event. Individual tickets are $140 or a table of 10 is $1200. Tickets include a premium seafood buffet lunch and a four-hour beer and wine package. For more information visit www.gctc.com.au.

TRIATHLON

AFTER a long race season and several hectic weeks at the Bathurst 1000 and Gold Coast 600, V8 Supercar drivers Will Davison and Jaimie Whincup are heading to the Noosa Triathlon to get among a totally different type of racing.

Swim, ride, run will replace massive horsepower, with the Gold Coast-based Noosa regulars grabbing the opportunity for a week of fun in the sun, before they wrap up the final two rounds of the V8 Supercars Championship in Melbourne and Newcastle.

For multiple Bathurst winner and Mustang driver, Will Davison, this Sunday’s event will be his eighth Noosa Triathlon, a love affair with the event that started back in 2006.

“We are pretty thrilled to get back to Noosa,” Davison said.

“The one thing I look at, at the start of the year is see if the Noosa Triathlon dates clash with my motor racing commitments and whether I am available to compete.

“It is the event that got me started and involved with triathlon and an event that holds a special place in my heart.

“It is a week that I have always enjoyed and through thick and thin with my racing I have always looked forward to getting away there and competing.”

Davison’s former flatmate Jamie Whincup has just come off a very successful weekend’s racing at the Gold Coast 600 and like Davison he is looking forward to some well earn R&R and a great race on Sunday.

“It is always good to fire on home soil of the Gold Coast 600 and to have a one-two on both days, well, you can’t ask for anymore,” Whincup said.

“Being on, concentration wise for a couple of hours each day really wears you out. So, I am a little bit slow for a few days and then I will be back in the swing of things and ready for a nice clean, healthy weekend.”