Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/p>\nBroncos star Payne Haas was signed with the Titans as a youngster.Source: Supplied<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 25 per cent are the blokes you buy to complement the 75 per cent. That\u2019s the big thing the Titans have to get right.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Gold Coast is home to some of the best rugby league schools for producing NRL stars in Australia. <\/p>\n
Keebra Park State High School and Palm Beach Currumbin State High School have featured in 10 of the past 17 national schoolboy finals and won seven of them.<\/p>\n
However, that dominance at schoolboy level has not resulted in players signing with the Titans, who narrowly avoided the wooden spoon last season and are yet to win a premiership or make a Grand Final since joining the NRL in 2007. <\/p>\n
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Reigning national champions Keebra Park are based just 6km south of the Titans\u2019 Parkwood headquarters, but signed a three-year exclusive affiliation agreement with the South Sydney Rabbitohs from 2024.<\/p>\n
Keebra fielded 16 NRL contracted players in September\u2019s national final victory but just<\/p>\n
five of those players are signed to the Gold Coast Titans. <\/p>\n
The other 11 players signed with the Rabbitohs, Broncos, Bulldogs, Storm, Dolphins, and Tigers. <\/p>\n
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Johns wants to make sure the best young talent on the Gold Coast are looking at the Titans as their first option for breaking into the NRL. <\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone looks at the top end and thinks we\u2019ve got to buy this bloke, buy that bloke, but the most important thing is they\u2019ve got to get that base right and that junior structure right,\u201d Johns said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey need the best kids in the area coming out of those powerhouse schools wanting to play for the Titans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matty Johns\u2019 main role after buying into the Titans is to stop the player drain from some of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[6074,160112,64,63,689,4428,160294,5349,111702,19307,145762,1208,2057,160295,763,2485,4612,160301,160109,160291,3194,18656,761,160288,762,1736,3583,158,677,160302,160297,122318,13390,4598,160303,3252,160299,160290,701,13391,159,130928,160300,160298,160296,160289,1183,4439,18780,85,160292,160293],"class_list":["post-276389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-africa","tag-ashes-test-sweep","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-brisbane-broncos","tag-broncos-star","tag-browns","tag-coaching-roles","tag-cook-islands","tag-deadline-passes","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-exclusive-affiliation-agreement","tag-fox-league","tag-gold-coast","tag-gold-coast-titans","tag-junior-player","tag-kangaroos-coach","tag-keebra-park-state-high-school","tag-kevin-walters","tag-matty-johns","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-national-schoolboy-finals","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-new-zealand","tag-northern-europe","tag-nrl","tag-oceania","tag-ownership-stake","tag-palm-beach-currumbin-state-high-school","tag-pathways-system","tag-payne-haas","tag-penrith-panthers","tag-player-drain","tag-player-movement","tag-powerhouse-rugby-league","tag-powerhouse-schools","tag-queensland","tag-reece-walsh","tag-rugby-league","tag-rugby-league-ashes-live","tag-rugby-league-clubs","tag-rugby-league-schools","tag-schoolboy-level","tag-schoolboy-rugby-nurseries","tag-south-africa","tag-south-sydney-rabbitohs","tag-southern-africa","tag-sports","tag-three-year-exclusive-affiliation","tag-young-rugby-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276389","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=276389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}