The Titans have not picked up the phone to Kevin Walters as the interview process for the vacant head coaching role begins this week
Walters raised eyebrows in league land last Sunday when he removed himself from the race for the position vacated by the mid-season sacking of Garth Brennan.
While his surprising public comments may have soured the Titans' taste for the Maroons coach, it's understood he is still a primary target for a head-coaching job many now label a poisoned chalice.
The Titans' interest in Walters remains genuine but the Herald understands that, as of Sunday evening, they had not made contact to ask the Queensland mentor to apply for the role.
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As the stalemate continues, the Titans will begin interviewing other candidates for the job this week. The Herald understands Justin Holbrook will be one of those candidates interviewed.
Holbrook is keeping one eye on any potential movement at Canterbury but opportunities to take a first NRL head coaching job are few and far between.
Kevin Walters hasn't spoken to the Titans.Credit:AAP
With Dean Pay seemingly safe at the helm of the Bulldogs, for now, Holbrook is firming as the coach of choice should Walters remain unavailable.
The 43-year-old has steered St Helens to a dominant Super League season in England. The club is five games clear on top of the table, winning 20 of their 22 matches so far this season.
If Holbrook is the man of the moment, he has quite the task ahead of him. There was no new coach bounce back for the Titans on Sunday, as they crumbled against a Storm team which was without almost all of their Origin stars.
"I think there were patches there, sometimes small, but patches there of what we have spoken about over the past five or six days," caretaker coach Craig Hodges said after the match. "There were patches, as you would expect this deep into the season, where we fall back into what have been bad habits.
"The scoreboard doesn't reflect it but I saw enough in there to know we are heading in the right direction but we still have a hell of a lot of work to do, obviously. That includes the system that we play with and the people that we play with."
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The Titans have not picked up the phone to Kevin Walters as the interview process for the vacant head coaching role begins this week
Walters raised eyebrows in league land last Sunday when he removed himself from the race for the position vacated by the mid-season sacking of Garth Brennan.
While his surprising public comments may have soured the Titans' taste for the Maroons coach, it's understood he is still a primary target for a head-coaching job many now label a poisoned chalice.
The Titans' interest in Walters remains genuine but the Herald understands that, as of Sunday evening, they had not made contact to ask the Queensland mentor to apply for the role.
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As the stalemate continues, the Titans will begin interviewing other candidates for the job this week. The Herald understands Justin Holbrook will be one of those candidates interviewed.
Holbrook is keeping one eye on any potential movement at Canterbury but opportunities to take a first NRL head coaching job are few and far between.
Kevin Walters hasn't spoken to the Titans.Credit:AAP
With Dean Pay seemingly safe at the helm of the Bulldogs, for now, Holbrook is firming as the coach of choice should Walters remain unavailable.
The 43-year-old has steered St Helens to a dominant Super League season in England. The club is five games clear on top of the table, winning 20 of their 22 matches so far this season.
If Holbrook is the man of the moment, he has quite the task ahead of him. There was no new coach bounce back for the Titans on Sunday, as they crumbled against a Storm team which was without almost all of their Origin stars.
"I think there were patches there, sometimes small, but patches there of what we have spoken about over the past five or six days," caretaker coach Craig Hodges said after the match. "There were patches, as you would expect this deep into the season, where we fall back into what have been bad habits.
"The scoreboard doesn't reflect it but I saw enough in there to know we are heading in the right direction but we still have a hell of a lot of work to do, obviously. That includes the system that we play with and the people that we play with."
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