New Titans recruit Oliver Pascoe is relishing his chance to be a full-time footy player with the reigning Petero Civoniceva Medallist inching closer to fulfilling his childhood dream.<\/p>\n
Dominating for Ipswich in the 2025 Hostplus Cup season to earn player of the year honours, the 26-year-old was due to report to Parkwood for a short three-month stint as part of the club’s affiliation with the Jets.<\/p>\n
But that has quickly changed with an offer to be part of Gold Coast’s development roster for the next two seasons following his sublime form – the opportunity Pascoe has wanted ever since stepping onto the rugby league field.<\/p>\n
“I think from age six when you start playing footy, this is what you dream about,” he told titans.com.au.<\/p>\n
“I’m here now, but the work’s only just getting started, so I’m super excited for what’s ahead.”<\/p>\n
Somewhat of a journeyman with 66 games of Cup since his debut in 2021, the crafty dummy-half feels his time toiling away in reserve grade experiencing very similar fundamentals\u00a0will help him adapt to being part of a professional rugby league system.<\/p>\n
“It’s kind of similar [at the Cup level], but it’s just the fact you get to be full-time and among professional players and professional systems and stuff like that,” Pascoe said.<\/p>\n
“You get help when you need it by everyone across a lot of different aspects and it allows you to further develop your game, which is excellent.<\/p>\n
“But [I want to give credit to] the coaching and the boys out at Ipswich.<\/p>\n
“They’re such a good and tight-knit group, which starts with the coaches in Tye and Trigger, but also everyone at the club.<\/p>\n
“They’ve really helped me develop as a player and a person.”<\/p>\n
Aiming to work hard and take advantage of his opportunity to earn a NRL debut during his time at the Titans, Pascoe is also looking forward to not having to juggle footy with his trade, which is a staple of being a Cup stalwart.<\/p>\n
“Getting to be here full-time also means I can get off my hands and knees and stop my tiling job to focus on my footy, so I’m stoked for that,” he joked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Titans recruit Oliver Pascoe is relishing his chance to be a full-time footy player with the reigning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-326259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326259","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=326259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}