Gold Coast Titans History

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Gold Coast were a Rugby league team who played in the NSWRL competition from 1988-1997, and the NRL in 1998.The least successful of the three 1988 NSWRL expansion teams (with Brisbane and Newcastle), the Gold Coast were originally known as the Gold Coast-Tweed Giants, and their home games were played at Seagulls Stadium, Tweed Heads. In 1990, the name was changed to the Gold Coast Seagulls.Financial troubles in 1995 saw yet another incarnation, the Chargers, and home games from 1996-1998 were played at Carrara Stadium, Gold Coast. It was during this phase that the club made its only finals appearance in the ARL half of 1997's split competition.It has been announced that a new team from the Gold Coast will take part in the 2007 NRL competition.Source: This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article 'Gold Coast'

History of the Titans' Bid

In 2003 Michael Searle and Paul Broughton began pushing for the re-instatment of a Gold Coast Team in the National Rugby League in 2006. In the second quarter of 2004 the Gold Coast Consortium, as they had become known, announced their team name and jersey at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre during an episode of Channel 9's The Footy Show. The team was to be known as the Gold Coast Dolphins and their colours would be white, jade and orange. The Dolphins moniker was very popular, however the Redcliffe Dolphins, which is the Queensland Cup's most successful team, threatened legal action if the Dolphin's name was used in the Gold Coast team.In mid-2004 the NRL announced that after viewing submissions from the Gold Coast Dolphins, the Central Coast Bears and Wellington, there would not be a 16th team in the 2006 NRL Competition. The major hurdles for the Gold Coast team, which was by far the favourite to get the nod if the 16th license was granted, was the use of the Dolphins name, and that their homeground, Carrara Stadium, was an oval and only seated 16,000.

The Gold Coast are accepted

Since the rejection of the Gold Coast's bid in 2004, the consortium did not give up in their quest for a Gold Coast NRL team. They dropped the Dolphins nickname, and the Queensland Government announced that they would spend $100 million on a new, rectangular stadium for the Gold Coast Team, should they be accepted. On May 27, 2005, the NRL CEO David Gallop announced that the Gold Coast had been accepted into the 2007 NRL competition. This conincided with the announcing of a new television deal with Channel 9, taking affect from 2007

Search for a name

The Gold Coast RLFC, along with a Gold Coast radio station, set up a competition where listeners could submit possible names for the new team. This was shortlisted into 10 names, and people could vote on which of the ten they most preffered on the team's then-website, www.goldcoastrugbyleague.com.au. These 10 names were narrowed down to 3, which were:Gold Coast Titans Gold Coast Stingers Gold Coast Pirates The most popular name was the Titans, and the team name Gold Coast Titans was announced on 21 September, 2005. The jersey design for the Titans has not yet been released, although it will be made by Reebok.Source: This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article 'Gold Coast Titans'

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