2019 Gold Coast Titans season
The 2019 Gold Coast Titans season is the 13th in the club's history. They competed in the National Rugby League's 2019 Telstra Premiership. The start of season Captain, Ryan James ended his season and in-turn his captaincy due to an ACL rupture in April 2019,[1] this brought forward a well-performing Tyrone Roberts to be selected as the team's captain for the rest of the 2019 NRL Season. The start of the year Head Coach Garth Brennan was axed in mid-July due to a "the results the club has achieved on the field this season have not met expectations", from the same weekend until the end of the season assistants Craig Hodges and Luke Burt took over as interim coaches.[2] In late-July Gold Coast Titans confirmed a 2020 NRL Season coach after the recent dramas.[3]
2019 Gold Coast Titans season | ||||
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NRL Rank | 16th | |||
Play-off result | did not qualify | |||
2019 record | Wins: 4; draws: 0; losses: 20 | |||
Points scored | For: 370; against: 651 | |||
Team information | ||||
CEO | Steve Mitchell | |||
Head Coach | Garth Brennan (Jan-Jul) Luke Burt (Jul-End of Season) Craig Hodges (Jul-End of Season) | |||
Captain |
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Stadium | Robina Stadium – 27,690 (11 Games) | |||
Avg. attendance | 11,587 | |||
High attendance | 16,201 | |||
Low attendance | 8,680 | |||
Top scorers | ||||
Tries | Dale Copley (9) | |||
Goals | Michael Gordon (27) | |||
Points | Michael Gordon (66) | |||
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The 2019 NRL Season the titans came 16th place, this turns out to be the worst performance of the team since its 16th placing in the 2011 NRL season.
Player movement
These movements happened across the previous season, off-season and pre-season.[4]
Gains
Losses
Pre-Season Challenge
Date[5] | Round | Opponent | Venue | Score | Tries | Goals | Attendance |
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Saturday, 23 February | Trial 1 | North Queensland Cowboys | Sunshine Coast Stadium, Sunshine Coast, Queensland | 16 - 22 | Jesse Arthars 22' Mitch Rein 35' Leilani Latu 73' |
Dylan Phythian (1/2) Jesse Arthars (1/1) |
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Saturday, 2 March | Trial 2 | Brisbane Broncos | Robina Stadium | 22 - 25 | Brenko Lee 8' Kevin Proctor 14', 20' Jesse Arthars 80' |
Michael Gordon (3/3) Ashley Taylor (0/1) |
Regular Season
2019 Squad
Statistics
Pos. | Name | National Rugby League | Total | ||
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Apps | Tries | Goals | Points | ||
FB | Michael Gordon | 16 | 3 | 27 | 66 |
FE | Tyrone Roberts | 15 | 6 | 15 | 54 |
WG / CE | Dale Copley | 15 | 9 | 36 | |
CE | Brian Kelly | 23 | 8 | 32 | |
WG | Anthony Don | 17 | 6 | 32 | |
WG | Phillip Sami | 15 | 6 | 24 | |
FE / HB | Ashley Taylor | 10 | 11 | 22 | |
CE / FE / SR | Tyrone Peachey | 21 | 2 | 6 | 20 |
FE / FE / FB / HB | AJ Brimson | 21 | 4 | 16 | |
HB | Ryley Jacks | 13 | 4 | 16 | |
SR | Bryce Cartwright | 22 | 3 | 12 | |
SR | Kevin Proctor | 22 | 2 | 8 | |
PR / LK | Jarrod Wallace | 21 | 2 | 8 | |
CE / WG | Jesse Arthars | 12 | 2 | 8 | |
WG / CE | Brenko Lee | 6 | 2 | 8 | |
HK | Mitch Rein | 18 | 1 | 4 | |
PR / LK | Jai Arrow | 17 | 1 | 4 | |
PR | Moeaki Fotuaika | 21 | 0 | ||
LK / PR | Jai Whitbread | 18 | 0 | ||
PR | Jack Stockwell | 14 | 0 | ||
PR | Shannon Boyd | 13 | 0 | ||
HK / LK | Nathan Peats | 13 | 0 | ||
PR / LK | Max King | 9 | 0 | ||
SR | Sam Stone | 8 | 0 | ||
SR | Keegan Hipgrave | 7 | 0 | ||
CE | Kallum Watkins | 6 | 0 | ||
SR / PR | Ryan James | 6 | 0 | ||
PR | Leilani Latu | 3 | 0 | ||
HB | Tanah Boyd | 2 | 0 | ||
SR / LK | Will Matthews | 2 | 0 |
References
- "Tyrone Roberts named new Titans captain". NRL.com. 6 March 2023.
- "Gold Coast Titans sack coach Garth Brennan". NRL.com. 6 March 2023.
- "Justin Holbrook Appointed As Gold Coast Titans Head Coach". NRL.com. 6 March 2023.
- "2019 Gold Coast Titans Signings". NRL.com. 6 March 2023.
- "2019 NRL Pre-Season Challenge". NRL.com. 6 March 2023.
- "2019 NRL Regular Season/Telstra Premiership". NRL.com. 6 March 2023.