Brian Carney Leaves Gold Coast Titans

[El Diablo]

well Pieterson's injured, no Carney, no Turner, Walker's hardly up to first grade and where's Rogers?

Rogers said hed be right

"Everything will be OK, there's nothing to worry about," Rogers, who is expected to play in the club's coming NRL trials, said.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21067300-23214,00.html

 

[TheManOnTheGrassyKnoll]

All we need is the one that pulls the strings in the Prince family (i.e. Mrs Prince) to have a change of heart and the chargers will embark on another 89-esque season of glory

 

[lotti]

I can't wait for the Feb 17 trial, I wonder if there'll be a brawl.

 

[Inferno]

lol, a comedy of errors.

Sucks for the Titans though. Looks like they are back to 5 internationals...

 

[lotti]

looks like it.

 

[Timmah]

Rugby league heartland. :sarcasm:

Standing room only at Parramatta.

Interestingly enough:

Melbourne, city of one team: Crowd average 10,850
Parramatta, in a city of nine teams: Crowd average 14,450

You do the Math.

 

[lotti]

yeah but Melbourne also has to contend with the AFL.

 

[McCrud]

Even though Searle is publicly copping this one 'on the chin', I would suspect that he would privately be pretty angry at the result. I can't understand how Carney could travel all the back to Australia, then retire after a single day's training. Obviously he knew that he couldn't last the season, so why bother putting everyone through the charade?

You would have to theorise that Carney knew months ago that he was struggling with motivation, as the whole ordeal over a 'Visa problem' can now be quickly put to bed (media reports suggested he was trying to get out of his contract BEFORE he retired today). So why didn't he do he best thing by the Titans and inform them months ago? To do the best thing by the Titans would have been to give them plenty of time to find a suitable replacement, not leave the club in the lurch only weeks away from the season's start.

Asking the Titans not to release him from his contract is, while honourable, not very helpful to the Titans 2007 season.

 

[UndertakerMike]

- Puletua...gone
- Turner...gone
- Carney...gone

Notice a pattern here? :lol:

 

[lotti]

yeah players are deserting the Titans like rats from a sinking ship.

 

[Ice777]

Interestingly enough:

Melbourne, city of one team: Crowd average 10,850

Change the record Timmah, talk about going on ad nauseam :crazy:

 

[UndertakerMike]

Interestingly enough:

Melbourne, city of one team: Crowd average 10,850
Parramatta, in a city of nine teams: Crowd average 14,450

You do the Math.

More like :
Melbourne, 10 years of history: Crowd average 10,850
Parramatta, 100 years of history: Crowd average 14,450

Storm wins again.

 

[lotti]

and that's with 8 AFL teams competing in an AFL mad city for the crowd, hopefully SOO 3 last year has changed that.

 

[El Diablo]

More like :
Melbourne, 10 years of history: Crowd average 10,850
Parramatta, 100 years of history: Crowd average 14,450

Storm wins again.

100 years :?

who were the last minor premiers to have a lower crowd average than Melboring?

maybe they set a record

 

[bear56]

Citing personal reasons international representive Brian Carney has left the Gold Coast Titans just 24 hours after joining his new team.

In a double whammy for the new NRL side Matt Rogers has rolled his ankle at training making it three losses in three days for the new club.

more to follow!

 

[bear56]

it's all about money. whats the bet?

 

[Ice777]

and that's with 8 AFL teams competing in an AFL mad city for the crowd, hopefully SOO 3 last year has changed that.

9 teams ;-)


I'd rather be competing against 8 other teams in one city in the same code than to be competing with 9 other teams of a different code where AFL is a religion to most. Considering we're up against that down here and comparing our home crowds to some of Sydney's teams who've been around for decades, i reckon the Storm are doing ok ;-)

 

[UndertakerMike]

it's all about money. whats the bet?

I bet it'to do with the Titans being an overbearing club of amateurs

 

[McCrud]

Considering we're up against that down here and comparing our home crowds to some of Sydney's teams who've been around for decades, i reckon the Storm are doing ok ;-)

I agree.

 

[lotti]

9 teams ;-)


I'd rather be competing against 8 other teams in one city in the same code than to be competing with 9 other teams of a different code where AFL is a religion to most. Considering we're up against that down here and comparing our home crowds to some of Sydney's teams who've been around for decades, i reckon the Storm are doing ok ;-)

Ok I missed one team.