Saturday‘s NRL 2017 Round 25 match is between Gold Coast Titans and Canterbury Bulldogs. The opening kick is set to commence at 20:00 local time with the game to be played at Cbus Super Stadium. The home team Gold Coast Titans are the favourites for the match. View our preview and teams for the game between Gold Coast Titans and Canterbury Bulldogs.
When: 15:00 | Saturday 26/08/2017
Where: Cbus Super Stadium
Preview:
There is still plenty of interest here, given both sides are out of finals contention. But unfortunately for the Titans it is for all the wrong reasons. Can the Gold Coast snap a five-game losing streak and give fans some joy after a tumultuous fortnight? Assistant coaches Craig Hodges and Terry Matterson will take over from sacked Neil Henry, while counterpart Des Hasler will be in better spirits after his team put 30 points on the board against Manly last weekend.
Key: The Titans haven’t scored more than 16 points in any of their past five games. They could find an avenue in the air though, given they score more tries (25) off kicks than anyone else and the Bulldogs (24) concede the most.
Odds:
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Tip: Gold Coast Titans at $1.73
Value Tip: First Try Scorer: Jarryd Hayne at $12.00
More Info:
Head to Head: Titans 7 Bulldogs 7
Last clash: Round 2, 2017 – Titans 17 bt Bulldogs 10 at Eden Park
Tab: Titans $1.73 Bulldogs $2.10
FootyTAB: Bulldogs +3.5
Teams:
Titans:
1. Jarryd Hayne 2. Anthony Don 3. Dale Copley 4. Phillip Sami 5. William Zillman 6. Tyrone Roberts 7. Ashley Taylor 8. Jarrod Wallace 9. Nathan Peats 10. Agnatius Paasi 11. Kevin Proctor 12. Joe Greenwood 13. Max King 14. Kane Elgey 15. Nathaniel Peteru 16. Leivaha Pulu 17. Paterika Vaivai 18. Morgan Boyle 19. Ben Nakubuwai 20. Keegan Hipgrave 21. Jamal Fogarty
Players cut: TBC
Bulldogs: 
1. William Hopoate 2. Brett Morris 3. Josh Morris 4. Brenko Lee 5. Marcelo Montoya 6. Matt Frawley 7. Moses Mbye 8. Aiden Tolman 9. Michael Lichaa 10. James Graham 11. Josh Jackson 12. Adam Elliot 13. David Klemmer 15. Raymond Faitala-Mariner 16. Danny Fualalo 17. Chase Stanley 19. Francis Tualau 14. Sam Kasiano 20. Josh Reynolds 22. Greg Eastwood 23. Kerrod Holland
Players cut: TBC
NRL News:
Forget moving the coach, Gold Coast should pack up and move to Brisbane.
That’s the opinion of rugby league guru Phil Gould, who also believes Kangaroos coach Mal Meninga would be the perfect man to lead the rebuild of the struggling NRL club.
The two-time premiership-winning coach suggested Meninga should be handed the reins of a football program and guide a rookie NRL mentor such as Kevin Walters or Adrian Lam.
“Adrian’s like Kevin Walters, he’s always coveted an NRL coaching role. He’s had a few lower grade roles,” Gould said on his Six Tackles With Gus podcast.
“If Mal’s there, it doesn’t matter who then coaches the side, because they’ll have a coaching team and Mal will oversee the team, as he did with the Queensland team for many years.”
Gould said the Titans needed a head of football with football experience and profile.
“Mal Meninga would be a perfect figure-head for that club, both corporately, community-wise, junior development-wise, and lending assistance and profile to the coaching program,” he said.
“He would also be a wonderful marketing tool and an asset for recruitment of young and even established players, knowing you’re going to play for the club where the Australian coach is.”
However while much of the focus has been on who takes over following the sacking of Neil Henry this week, Gould went one step further and said the club should move north to Brisbane.
It is widely believed the next NRL expansion club should share the city with the Broncos.
“I think the logical solution for the Gold Coast Titans is to move to Suncorp Stadium and play week about with the Broncos and act as a the second Brisbane team,” Gould said.
“I think that would probably be in the best short-term and long-term interests of the game.
“But if they want to remain on the Gold Coast, then they need to do a lot more work than they’ve done, particularly development-wise, engaging with the local community, and producing players from that region to play with that club, rather than being purely a recruitment club.”
Gould also played down the Jarryd Hayne factor for any new coach.
“I don’t think anyone should be worrying about going to coach the Gold Coast Titans and be thinking, ‘How am I going to deal with Jarryd Hayne’,” Gould said.
“You deal with him like everybody else. If Jarryd doesn’t like that – there’s the door, don’t let it hit you on the arse on the way out.”