{"id":275299,"date":"2025-11-10T11:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/275299\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T11:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:35:12","slug":"nrl-teenager-vows-to-break-gold-coast-titans-halfback-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/275299\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL teenager vows to break Gold Coast Titans halfback curse"},"content":{"rendered":"

But Harrison \u2013 who was praised by Foran as a \u201csmart\u201d and \u201cclassy\u201d playmaker who appeared \u201cunfazed by the pressure\u201d<\/a> \u2013 declared he was not content serving as the trio\u2019s back-up.<\/p>\n

Winning is part of the 19-year-old\u2019s DNA, showcasing brilliant game management for PBC\u2019s national title and the Tweed Seagulls\u2019 Mal Meninga Cup triumph, and he was adamant he could become the long-standing halfback the Gold Coast have craved, despite his admiration for Campbell \u2013 the man he intends to usurp.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m backing myself, if I get put in a position where I\u2019m wearing that No.7 I\u2019m sure I won\u2019t let them down,\u201d Harrison said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all train with the NRL for a reason, and that\u2019s to play NRL. You don\u2019t train for NRL to play Cup, so as long as you\u2019re training here you\u2019re training for a spot and competing for a spot.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still look up to JC and how he plays the game – just that off the cuff [style]. It\u2019s around his running game and unstructured footy, and how he can come up with plays on the spot and put the ball in the right hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Even the most elite prospects need a powerful forward pack to play behind, with the Titans set to rely on blossoming youngsters such as Arama Hau and Cooper Bai to fill the voids left by David Fifita (Rabbitohs) and Reagan Campbell-Gillard (London Broncos).<\/p>\n

Hau, who managed seven short stints off the bench in 2025, was adamant the youth had the tools to spearhead a Titans\u2019 revolution.<\/p>\n

\u201cDave … looked after me well and took me under his wing coming from Keebra. It\u2019s sad to see him go, but for myself I\u2019m a bit happy to see that back-row spot open up,\u201d Hau said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s getting my fitness up, that\u2019s always been my issue. I really want to be a household name, so hopefully this year I can show everyone what\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n

PBC and Keebra Park have bred some of the game\u2019s most elite talent, only to watch them thrive away from the Glitter Strip. Reece Walsh,<\/a> Payne Haas, Blake Mozer and Fifita were all poached by the Broncos from Keebra Park, while Tom Dearden, Brendan Piakura and Jahrome Hughes all attended PBC.<\/p>\n

Kangaroos flyer Xavier Coates also graduated from Marymount College.<\/p>\n

But Hannay has arrived at Parkwood with a pledge to recapture the grassroots pathways and halt the exodus of Gold Coast talents \u2013 a move bolstered by NRL great Matthew Johns buying an ownership stake in the club.<\/p>\n

\u201cMatt was up here during the week, and he seems to have a real passion to want to get out and his boots on the ground in junior leagues, with our pathways and have a real presence there,\u201d Hannay said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s one of the most exciting parts about our direction moving forward, there\u2019s a renewed vigour for us to invest in our pathways to ensure we\u2019re keeping the best kids from the region \u2013 not just the Gold Coast, but the Northern Rivers \u2013 as Gold Coast Titans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the real passion of his, and we\u2019re very much aligned in that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But Harrison \u2013 who was praised by Foran as a \u201csmart\u201d and \u201cclassy\u201d playmaker who appeared \u201cunfazed by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-275299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}