Moe Fotuaika is determined to earn back his Maroons jersey and has backed the new Titans engine room to help him do so in what is poised to be a record-breaking season for the experienced enforcer.<\/p>\n
On the verge of history, now only 11 games short of becoming the most-capped Gold Coast player – a 12-year honour currently held by club legend Mark Minichiello with 173 appearances – the middle man is hoping to get back to playing his best footy upon reuniting with former Queensland assistant and new Titans coach Josh Hannay.<\/p>\n
Fotuaika’s declaration comes after making a frank assessment of his 2025 campaign, which saw him overlooked for the Maroons’ series decider.<\/p>\n
“It’s always going to be disappointing when you miss out on Origin selection… that’s definitely my goal to get back there,” he said.<\/p>\n
“For me personally, I know I wasn’t at my best and I know what my best footy looks like.<\/p>\n
“I don’t want to look too far ahead. I just want to get my body and mind right and if I can get that right and play good footy here at the Titans, everything will take care of itself.”<\/p>\n
\n 599″, “>809”, “>959″]”
\n data-eqio-prefix=”video-post-screen”
\n ref=”root”
\n ><\/p>\n
\n
\n Up Next
\n
\n
<\/p>\n
\n
\n \/
\n
\n <\/p>\n
\n
\n
\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\n
\n
\n
\n Replay
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n Play Next
\n
\n
\n <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
‘We’ve got a lot of players to fill that space’: Fotuaika<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old and teammate Tino Fa’asuamaleaui will be key members of a different-looking forward pack with the loss of Jaimin Jolliffe to a season-ending knee injury.<\/p>\n
A middle rotation that will also include Chris Randall and Klese Haas who have moved from the edge, the 163-gamer is backing the additions to the engine room, with full belief they’ll be a perfect fit for the modern style of play.<\/p>\n
“It was disappointing losing Jimmy. He’s one of our established front rowers here at the Titans and is a big part of our pack, but we’ve got a lot of players to fill that space,” Fotuaika said.<\/p>\n
“We might be down on size but with the game now and how fast it is, the smaller players really fit into that style of footy.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got Kurtis Morrin there who has joined the squad and Cooper Bai who had his first game last year.<\/p>\n
“He’s someone I’m really excited to play alongside if he gets the opportunity, so we have plenty of different options there.”<\/p>\n
With Minichiello’s record in sight, anticipating to reach it in Round 12 should he play every game leading up to then, the accolade will be a fantastic achievement for a player who has always been a humble achiever since debuting in 2018.<\/p>\n
As he chases history, Fotuaika just wants to experience the same joy as the man he is about to surpass on the honour board.<\/p>\n
“Going into my ninth season, I haven’t had much success [in my time at the club],” he said.<\/p>\n
“I really just want to bring success to this club and take it back to where it once was in the early years.”<\/p>\n
He is hoping that will happen with Hannay at the helm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moe Fotuaika is determined to earn back his Maroons jersey and has backed the new Titans engine room…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-448635","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\/448635","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=448635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}