Gold Coast Titans coach Des Hasler blows up at players in the shower
Gold Coast Titans coach Des Hasler was not happy after his side fell to the Wests Tigers 21-20 on Sunday.
The Tigers trailed 20-16 with five minutes left but levelled it up when Jeral Skelton crossed in the left corner. Doueihi would miss the subsequent sideline conversion but became the hero just minutes later.
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Doueihi kicked the matchwinning field goal in the dying seconds as celebrations broke out at Leichhardt Oval.
Hasler was left seething after the loss and his frustration boiled over in a fiery locker room moment that was captured on camera.
As Hasler entered the rooms to address his playing group, he was left infuriated by the sounds of the showers running.
The 64-year-old exploded into a fit of rage as he shouted at the players in the showers, forcing them to walk out and sit with the playing group.
The vision was shown on Sunday Night with Matty Johns with Bryan Fletcher making jokes at the players who were scolded.
'I think he's blowing up because they're all showering in their undies,' Bryan Fletcher quipped.
Des Hasler blows up at Titans players
Hasler's frustration was just as evident during his post-match press conference as he lamented several 'dumb' mistakes by his playing group.
'It's really disappointing that in the second half we fumble, we bumble, we miss tackles, we throw balls over the sideline, we get carried over the sideline and we complete 9 from 15 sets.
'I'm really disappointed in that performance. It was really dumb.
'We didn't need luck. There was the scrum penalty and three knock ons that the referee missed, but I'm not going to blame the loss entirely on the referee's performance.
'We didn't help ourselves.'
The loss drops the Titans to 4-13 on the season and keeps them glued to the bottom of the ladder.
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After one game he was rejected by the Knights. It spurred his next 125 NRL appearances
It's the rejection that helped fuel Canberra hooker Tom Starling's NRL career, and countless others as well, including some of his Raiders teammates. Starling made his way through Newcastle's development system before making his NRL debut for the Knights at age 20 in the last round of the 2018 season. It would be the Kincumber Colts junior's only first-grade game for the club. "It was old boys' day, I didn't play too bad. I didn't light the house on fire, but I thought I was going to get a contract out of that," Starling said. "But I didn't hear anything back from them. "I don't know if my manager was sheltering me from it ... but ... I run into [former Knights football manager] Darren Mooney down the beach, he was leaving the club ... and I'm just sort of in no man's land waiting for a call and he goes: 'Have you found anything yet?' "I'm like, 'What do you mean?' And he goes, 'Oh, haven't they told you? They think you're too small and they're going to bring in another [hooker].' "I rang my manager up and said: 'We've got to go find something else'. "At the time I probably used it as motivation, but looking back on it now, they obviously needed to win right away and thought they'd move in a different direction." Starling, who recalled his Newcastle exit on an episode of the Backstage with Cooper and Matty Johns podcast this week, isn't the first Knights product to go on and have a successful career elsewhere after being overlooked, and he certainly won't be the last. It's the nature of the sport. The Knights have a huge catchment area to potentially draw junior players from, ranging from the Central Coast in the south, the Upper Hunter in the west and up along the coast to the north. The club's modus operandi is to try and find and develop the best of them, but you simply can't keep them all. Knights management have previously said, however, that for a period of time they weren't as focused on their own backyard as they should have been. In recent years, the likes of Grant Anderson (Melbourne Storm), Kurt Donoghoe (The Dolphins) and Starling's Canberra teammates Zac Hosking and Simi Sasagi have become established NRL players after spending time in Newcastle's development system. All of them have admitted that their Newcastle rejections spurred them on other clubs. Starling, now 27, has played 126 NRL games - all but one of them for Canberra Hosking, 28, was twice named Newcastle's NSW Cup player of the year, but couldn't get a start in first grade and left for Brisbane ahead of the 2022 season where he made his NRL debut that year. He has now played 47 NRL games. Canberra have made somewhat of a habit of signing former Knights players or Hunter products. In addition to Starling, Hosking and Sasagi, the Raiders' top-30 roster features Joseph Tapine, Danny Levi, Hudson Young, Myles Martin and Pasami Saulo, who is returning to the Knights next year. Their five-eighth, Ethan Strange, hails from the Central Coast but did not come through the Knights' system. Jake Clydsdale (Scone Thoroughbreds), Kain Anderson (Central Newcastle) and Caleb Garvie (Cessnock Goannas) are playing in Canberra's lower-grade sides. The Raiders have also signed Knights hooker Jayden Brailey for next season. "The Canberra Knights," Young joked about the growing number of former Newcastle players at the club late last year. Starling, who re-signed with Canberra in May until the end of the 2027 season, looks set to go head-to-head this week with the man he will be competing with for the club's No.9 jersey next year. Both he and Brailey have been named at hooker for their respective sides ahead of Sunday's clash in Canberra. Brailey, who has started at hooker in four of Newcastle's past five games, will link with the Raiders for the next two seasons. Owen Pattie is the other emerging rake on Canberra's roster. A win clear at the top of the NRL points table, the Raiders are on an eight-game winning streak and coming off a 40-16 win over Parramatta on Saturday. The Knights, after a 20-15 loss to the Warriors on Sunday, have kept largely the same side for the 2pm match at GIO Stadium. Experienced forward Jack Hetherington has won a recall. He was named on the bench, while Tom Cant has dropped out of the side. Brodie Jones, who was a late withdrawal from the Warriors match - one of a dozen or so Knights players to fall ill on the eve of the game falling a virus outbreak - is in the extended match squad, which also includes Cant, James Schiller, Matt Arthur and Kyle McCarthy. The Knights should take plenty of confidence into the game, having pushed the fourth-placed Warriors all the way and only lost to Canberra 22-18 a month ago. Sasagi, who has mostly been used in the back row this season, will start in the centres against his former team after Raiders back Sebastian Kris (concussion) was ruled out. It's the rejection that helped fuel Canberra hooker Tom Starling's NRL career, and countless others as well, including some of his Raiders teammates. Starling made his way through Newcastle's development system before making his NRL debut for the Knights at age 20 in the last round of the 2018 season. It would be the Kincumber Colts junior's only first-grade game for the club. "It was old boys' day, I didn't play too bad. I didn't light the house on fire, but I thought I was going to get a contract out of that," Starling said. "But I didn't hear anything back from them. "I don't know if my manager was sheltering me from it ... but ... I run into [former Knights football manager] Darren Mooney down the beach, he was leaving the club ... and I'm just sort of in no man's land waiting for a call and he goes: 'Have you found anything yet?' "I'm like, 'What do you mean?' And he goes, 'Oh, haven't they told you? They think you're too small and they're going to bring in another [hooker].' "I rang my manager up and said: 'We've got to go find something else'. "At the time I probably used it as motivation, but looking back on it now, they obviously needed to win right away and thought they'd move in a different direction." Starling, who recalled his Newcastle exit on an episode of the Backstage with Cooper and Matty Johns podcast this week, isn't the first Knights product to go on and have a successful career elsewhere after being overlooked, and he certainly won't be the last. It's the nature of the sport. The Knights have a huge catchment area to potentially draw junior players from, ranging from the Central Coast in the south, the Upper Hunter in the west and up along the coast to the north. The club's modus operandi is to try and find and develop the best of them, but you simply can't keep them all. Knights management have previously said, however, that for a period of time they weren't as focused on their own backyard as they should have been. In recent years, the likes of Grant Anderson (Melbourne Storm), Kurt Donoghoe (The Dolphins) and Starling's Canberra teammates Zac Hosking and Simi Sasagi have become established NRL players after spending time in Newcastle's development system. All of them have admitted that their Newcastle rejections spurred them on other clubs. Starling, now 27, has played 126 NRL games - all but one of them for Canberra Hosking, 28, was twice named Newcastle's NSW Cup player of the year, but couldn't get a start in first grade and left for Brisbane ahead of the 2022 season where he made his NRL debut that year. He has now played 47 NRL games. Canberra have made somewhat of a habit of signing former Knights players or Hunter products. In addition to Starling, Hosking and Sasagi, the Raiders' top-30 roster features Joseph Tapine, Danny Levi, Hudson Young, Myles Martin and Pasami Saulo, who is returning to the Knights next year. Their five-eighth, Ethan Strange, hails from the Central Coast but did not come through the Knights' system. Jake Clydsdale (Scone Thoroughbreds), Kain Anderson (Central Newcastle) and Caleb Garvie (Cessnock Goannas) are playing in Canberra's lower-grade sides. The Raiders have also signed Knights hooker Jayden Brailey for next season. "The Canberra Knights," Young joked about the growing number of former Newcastle players at the club late last year. Starling, who re-signed with Canberra in May until the end of the 2027 season, looks set to go head-to-head this week with the man he will be competing with for the club's No.9 jersey next year. Both he and Brailey have been named at hooker for their respective sides ahead of Sunday's clash in Canberra. Brailey, who has started at hooker in four of Newcastle's past five games, will link with the Raiders for the next two seasons. Owen Pattie is the other emerging rake on Canberra's roster. A win clear at the top of the NRL points table, the Raiders are on an eight-game winning streak and coming off a 40-16 win over Parramatta on Saturday. The Knights, after a 20-15 loss to the Warriors on Sunday, have kept largely the same side for the 2pm match at GIO Stadium. Experienced forward Jack Hetherington has won a recall. He was named on the bench, while Tom Cant has dropped out of the side. Brodie Jones, who was a late withdrawal from the Warriors match - one of a dozen or so Knights players to fall ill on the eve of the game falling a virus outbreak - is in the extended match squad, which also includes Cant, James Schiller, Matt Arthur and Kyle McCarthy. The Knights should take plenty of confidence into the game, having pushed the fourth-placed Warriors all the way and only lost to Canberra 22-18 a month ago. Sasagi, who has mostly been used in the back row this season, will start in the centres against his former team after Raiders back Sebastian Kris (concussion) was ruled out. It's the rejection that helped fuel Canberra hooker Tom Starling's NRL career, and countless others as well, including some of his Raiders teammates. Starling made his way through Newcastle's development system before making his NRL debut for the Knights at age 20 in the last round of the 2018 season. It would be the Kincumber Colts junior's only first-grade game for the club. "It was old boys' day, I didn't play too bad. I didn't light the house on fire, but I thought I was going to get a contract out of that," Starling said. "But I didn't hear anything back from them. "I don't know if my manager was sheltering me from it ... but ... I run into [former Knights football manager] Darren Mooney down the beach, he was leaving the club ... and I'm just sort of in no man's land waiting for a call and he goes: 'Have you found anything yet?' "I'm like, 'What do you mean?' And he goes, 'Oh, haven't they told you? They think you're too small and they're going to bring in another [hooker].' "I rang my manager up and said: 'We've got to go find something else'. "At the time I probably used it as motivation, but looking back on it now, they obviously needed to win right away and thought they'd move in a different direction." Starling, who recalled his Newcastle exit on an episode of the Backstage with Cooper and Matty Johns podcast this week, isn't the first Knights product to go on and have a successful career elsewhere after being overlooked, and he certainly won't be the last. It's the nature of the sport. The Knights have a huge catchment area to potentially draw junior players from, ranging from the Central Coast in the south, the Upper Hunter in the west and up along the coast to the north. The club's modus operandi is to try and find and develop the best of them, but you simply can't keep them all. Knights management have previously said, however, that for a period of time they weren't as focused on their own backyard as they should have been. In recent years, the likes of Grant Anderson (Melbourne Storm), Kurt Donoghoe (The Dolphins) and Starling's Canberra teammates Zac Hosking and Simi Sasagi have become established NRL players after spending time in Newcastle's development system. 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The Raiders have also signed Knights hooker Jayden Brailey for next season. "The Canberra Knights," Young joked about the growing number of former Newcastle players at the club late last year. Starling, who re-signed with Canberra in May until the end of the 2027 season, looks set to go head-to-head this week with the man he will be competing with for the club's No.9 jersey next year. Both he and Brailey have been named at hooker for their respective sides ahead of Sunday's clash in Canberra. Brailey, who has started at hooker in four of Newcastle's past five games, will link with the Raiders for the next two seasons. Owen Pattie is the other emerging rake on Canberra's roster. A win clear at the top of the NRL points table, the Raiders are on an eight-game winning streak and coming off a 40-16 win over Parramatta on Saturday. The Knights, after a 20-15 loss to the Warriors on Sunday, have kept largely the same side for the 2pm match at GIO Stadium. Experienced forward Jack Hetherington has won a recall. He was named on the bench, while Tom Cant has dropped out of the side. Brodie Jones, who was a late withdrawal from the Warriors match - one of a dozen or so Knights players to fall ill on the eve of the game falling a virus outbreak - is in the extended match squad, which also includes Cant, James Schiller, Matt Arthur and Kyle McCarthy. The Knights should take plenty of confidence into the game, having pushed the fourth-placed Warriors all the way and only lost to Canberra 22-18 a month ago. Sasagi, who has mostly been used in the back row this season, will start in the centres against his former team after Raiders back Sebastian Kris (concussion) was ruled out. It's the rejection that helped fuel Canberra hooker Tom Starling's NRL career, and countless others as well, including some of his Raiders teammates. Starling made his way through Newcastle's development system before making his NRL debut for the Knights at age 20 in the last round of the 2018 season. It would be the Kincumber Colts junior's only first-grade game for the club. "It was old boys' day, I didn't play too bad. I didn't light the house on fire, but I thought I was going to get a contract out of that," Starling said. "But I didn't hear anything back from them. "I don't know if my manager was sheltering me from it ... but ... I run into [former Knights football manager] Darren Mooney down the beach, he was leaving the club ... and I'm just sort of in no man's land waiting for a call and he goes: 'Have you found anything yet?' "I'm like, 'What do you mean?' And he goes, 'Oh, haven't they told you? They think you're too small and they're going to bring in another [hooker].' "I rang my manager up and said: 'We've got to go find something else'. "At the time I probably used it as motivation, but looking back on it now, they obviously needed to win right away and thought they'd move in a different direction." Starling, who recalled his Newcastle exit on an episode of the Backstage with Cooper and Matty Johns podcast this week, isn't the first Knights product to go on and have a successful career elsewhere after being overlooked, and he certainly won't be the last. It's the nature of the sport. The Knights have a huge catchment area to potentially draw junior players from, ranging from the Central Coast in the south, the Upper Hunter in the west and up along the coast to the north. The club's modus operandi is to try and find and develop the best of them, but you simply can't keep them all. Knights management have previously said, however, that for a period of time they weren't as focused on their own backyard as they should have been. In recent years, the likes of Grant Anderson (Melbourne Storm), Kurt Donoghoe (The Dolphins) and Starling's Canberra teammates Zac Hosking and Simi Sasagi have become established NRL players after spending time in Newcastle's development system. All of them have admitted that their Newcastle rejections spurred them on other clubs. Starling, now 27, has played 126 NRL games - all but one of them for Canberra Hosking, 28, was twice named Newcastle's NSW Cup player of the year, but couldn't get a start in first grade and left for Brisbane ahead of the 2022 season where he made his NRL debut that year. He has now played 47 NRL games. Canberra have made somewhat of a habit of signing former Knights players or Hunter products. In addition to Starling, Hosking and Sasagi, the Raiders' top-30 roster features Joseph Tapine, Danny Levi, Hudson Young, Myles Martin and Pasami Saulo, who is returning to the Knights next year. Their five-eighth, Ethan Strange, hails from the Central Coast but did not come through the Knights' system. Jake Clydsdale (Scone Thoroughbreds), Kain Anderson (Central Newcastle) and Caleb Garvie (Cessnock Goannas) are playing in Canberra's lower-grade sides. The Raiders have also signed Knights hooker Jayden Brailey for next season. "The Canberra Knights," Young joked about the growing number of former Newcastle players at the club late last year. Starling, who re-signed with Canberra in May until the end of the 2027 season, looks set to go head-to-head this week with the man he will be competing with for the club's No.9 jersey next year. Both he and Brailey have been named at hooker for their respective sides ahead of Sunday's clash in Canberra. Brailey, who has started at hooker in four of Newcastle's past five games, will link with the Raiders for the next two seasons. Owen Pattie is the other emerging rake on Canberra's roster. A win clear at the top of the NRL points table, the Raiders are on an eight-game winning streak and coming off a 40-16 win over Parramatta on Saturday. The Knights, after a 20-15 loss to the Warriors on Sunday, have kept largely the same side for the 2pm match at GIO Stadium. Experienced forward Jack Hetherington has won a recall. He was named on the bench, while Tom Cant has dropped out of the side. Brodie Jones, who was a late withdrawal from the Warriors match - one of a dozen or so Knights players to fall ill on the eve of the game falling a virus outbreak - is in the extended match squad, which also includes Cant, James Schiller, Matt Arthur and Kyle McCarthy. The Knights should take plenty of confidence into the game, having pushed the fourth-placed Warriors all the way and only lost to Canberra 22-18 a month ago. Sasagi, who has mostly been used in the back row this season, will start in the centres against his former team after Raiders back Sebastian Kris (concussion) was ruled out.
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