$$$ Titans up for sale $$$

[Foreign Legion]

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...s/news-story/6d0bd7d3d231048a89ceca5f6833b69b

THE Gold Coast Titans ownership is like the Snapper Rocks surfbreak, only locals are invited.

Todd Greenberg told*The Courier-Mail*the NRL wanted to sell the club to Gold Coast-based businessmen as a sale of the Titans in the next 12 months.

The NRL has owned the club for more than a year now and major improvements to its governance have occurred.

Titans fans could see their club in the hands of independent owners.

However, for the club to truly thrive it needs to be independent and the NRL wants a community owned model.

The Titans have been competitive this season in most games but are now well outside the top eight and their finals ambitions could be killed in the next month.

Greenberg said ownership discussions were happening right now but the NRL would rather not have out of towners.

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That rules out the likes of central Queensland construction magnate Geoff Murphy who had put his hand up to buy into the club.

“Clearly, local people owning, supporting and engaging with that club is incredibly important,” Greenberg said.

“A community based asset is clearly the model but we have to let that unfold.

“We are not forcing our hand with this. We want to be very judicious. We will give it the time and energy it needs. They have made massive improvement.

“People like Rebecca Frizelle and her board and Graham Annesley are doing a great job at looking at the long term play for the Titans, which has always been in our interest.

“There are discussions but they are being done through Rebecca.”

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The NRL own or part own three other NRL clubs, Newcastle, Wests Tigers and St George Illawarra. A sale of Newcastle and St George Illawarra appears likely this season but the Titans will have to wait with a buy out likely next season.

“No, not this particular year,” Greenberg said.

“The community owning their team is the right result and I’m happy if it takes a little bit longer to get that result.”

NRL boss Todd Greenberg wants the club to have greater community links.

Freedom from NRL ownership could help the club recruit and retain players.

The Titans have to deal with heavy restrictions and paperwork required for them to even engage a prospective player. Often by the time they have filed the required paperwork, that player has been snapped up by a rival club.

Greenberg also reaffirmed the NRL was genuinely interested in hosting a grand final at Suncorp Stadium.

“When you are rebuilding an asset worth hundreds of millions of dollars it takes years,” Greenberg said.

“While we do that we aren’t keen to play in a construction zone.

“Given the NSW Government have just spent $1.6 billion there is a strong relationship there and we will have the first discussions with them. In short, we will be looking at all options and Queensland is one of those options.”

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[Marlins]

Is tweed heads a local area if so let the NSB buy them out already and bring on the Gold Coast Bears. I'd also consider play up to 4 home games a year at Suncorp stadium seeing as how Brisbane will never receive a 2nd side. Also a trial match every year at NSO.

 

[LESStar58]

f**king hell.

My club is privately owned and there are obvious benefits in that but how many times are the Titans going to change hands? Feel for their supporters. Must be hard putting up with this malarkey

 

[muzby]

Yahtzee

my favourite part of the whole article.


does the winner get the titans as a prize?

 

[POPEYE]

F**k the local businessmen, the joint will turn into a great waterslide. Sell the Titans to the poms to create a Rugby League Millionaire Shark Tank with Koukash as its director, make the place a home away from home for ESL players not afraid of homesickness or a sun tan

Create an English NRL club, let them make Hodgson, Widdop and Co offers they can't refuse and let's get the joint rockin' . . . worked for expatriate Qld's in Melbourne, no reason another place that doesn't give a tuppenny about RL can't give the game another leg up

 

[Jason Maher]

I reckon we could put together a LU consortium. If everyone who posts here chips in tree fiddy, I reckon we could put together a competitive bid. And just imagine how the collective wisdom of this place could revolutionise the running of an NRL club.

 

[lafai]

Perth Titans

 

[Foreign Legion]

bears need to cash in on the team

 

[Marlins]

West coast Titans
English Coast Titans
Gold Coast Bears
North Coast Bears
London Titans
Brisbane Titans
SQLD Titans
Western Corridor Titans
The possibilities are endless

 

[Foreign Legion]

GWS Titans

 

[Rhino_NQ]

i'll chuck in some loose change from under the ocuch and 2 slices leftover of last nights pizza

 

[roostersrule2]

I reckon we could put together a LU consortium. If everyone who posts here chips in tree fiddy, I reckon we could put together a competitive bid. And just imagine how the collective wisdom of this place could revolutionise the running of an NRL club.

I'm up for it, we could call it the lol@souffs team

Not as if any souffs fans are going to help pay for it.

 

[Captain Apollo]

my favourite part of the whole article.

does the winner get the titans as a prize?

Yeah, the booby prize ;-)

 

[BunniesMan]

I reckon we could put together a LU consortium. If everyone who posts here chips in tree fiddy, I reckon we could put together a competitive bid. And just imagine how the collective wisdom of this place could revolutionise the running of an NRL club.

I'll put my hand up for the position of head coach.

 

[Rabbit toes]

I'll put my hand up for the position of head coach.

Well seeing as Gold Coast teams always fail, this would make sense.

 

[Paullyboy]

I just don't understand why the NRL, and AFL for that matter, think the Gold Coast is a city. It's not. It's a collection of (mostly) undesirable people with questionable morals who are spread over a ridiculously long and poorly planned patch of turf.

Give up on them. Move them to Perth.

 

[RL The greatest game]

I say sell it to Marwan Koukash.
The man loves Rugby League and has the cash to to back the Titans.

 

[muzby]

sell the franchise to PNG, have them play 25% of their 'home' games out of the Gold Coast, the rest out of PNG..

 

[JamesRustle]

I'll put my hand up for the position of head coach.

Giving or receiving?

 

[POPEYE]

sell the franchise to PNG, have them play 25% of their 'home' games out of the Gold Coast, the rest out of PNG..

Wow, I'm impressed, a seriously good idea . . . you should frame it