That’s the defiant message from Gold Coast Titans owners Rebecca Frizelle and Daryl Kelly, who have put to bed the scuttlebutt and “ignorant opinions” about the Coast franchise packing up shop and moving up the road to Brisbane.

Ms Frizelle said despite all of the talk, the team cannot legally be moved unless the co-owners decide they want to do that.

“We haven’t paid it much attention, because we thought it was so fanciful and ridiculous, we just put it to the side and thought ‘how silly, no one is going to buy into that’,” Ms Frizelle said.

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media_camera Rebecca Frizelle says the Titans aren’t going anywhere. Picture: Jerad Williams

“But it unsettles our fans and members, which is fair enough, so we need to put this to rest.

“It just won’t happen, legally, despite what anybody wants, it can’t happen unless the Frizelle’s and the Kelly’s agree to it. And we’re never going to agree to it.

“I think the hard part for us is the game has a problem with people who suffer from relevance syndrome, it’s a terrible virus in rugby league, but it strikes a number.

“I think we sometimes fall at the hands of that, because we have so many wonderful helpers on the sidelines commenting that really have no understanding of what’s going on, none whatsoever.”

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media_camera Jai Arrow of the Gold Coast Titans is tackled during the round 24 NRL match between the Newcastle Knights and the Gold Coast Titans at McDonald Jones Stadium on August 31, 2019 in Newcastle, Australia. (Photo by Tony Feder/Getty Images)

Titans co-owner Darryl Kelly said there was no chance of a move.

“We’re the only ones who can make the decision and we’re not going anywhere.

“We only invested for one reason, because we thought the Gold Coast deserved and needed a bloomin’ NRL side and it’s something we still believe in.

“We’ve had the club for two years, it’s a bit early days to be calling for it to be shifted.

“And as far as I understand it the broadcasters want more Queensland teams not less Queensland teams … why would you give up the Gold Coast for goodness sake, it’s rugby league heartland.”

Ms Frizelle said there was no way the NRL would let the Titans be moved from one of the greatest breeding grounds for rugby league talent in the country.

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“The NRL did not spend 15 or 20 million dollars, a substantial amount of money, to keep the club alive after it went into administration, only to move it’s licence.

“If they were going to do it, they would have moved it then, when they were the owners, and they didn’t.

“They know how important it is to have a club here, it is very strategically important to them as a region, they are never doing it.

“We’re defending over 100 years of rugby league on the Gold Coast, it’s a heartland for rugby league, it’s the second largest junior nursery in the country, we’ve invested over $1.2 million in junior rugby league players that hasn’t been done before, if that isn’t a clear signal in what we’re doing to build for the future, than I don’t know what is.”

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media_camera Tyrone Peachey of the Gold Coast Titans looks on during a match. (Photo by Ashley Feder/Getty Images)

Although the Titans aren’t going anywhere, Ms Frizelle said she believes if another team is to go into Brisbane, a 16 team league would be the way forward.

“Firstly you’ve got to think about the funding model. Where’s the funding going to come from to field a 17th team? The clubs all get grants, there is only a certain amount of funding, so it’s got to come out of the existing clubs, who will have to accept less to fund another team.

“The broadcasters aren’t going to pay more to put another team in.

“You come back to that simple math, the clubs aren’t going to cop getting less than what they are now to put a 17th team in, this is my theory.

“You come back to the 16, it would make sense that they would move a club, or put out offers, but they can’t move any club, unless the club wants to move.

“The broadcasters don’t want less teams in Queensland, they want more.”

She said there has been a lot of great work going on off the field, with the club hopefully turning it around on the park next year.

“There are so many great things happening behind the scenes, the club has never been in a better position then it is now.

“Obviously our on field performance is disappointing, it’s certainly not where we expected it to be. We can’t forget half of our playing roster got lost to injury at the start of the year, we lost our two halves at the start, we lost our captain, ever since then, we’ve been ravaged by injury.

“We’re putting our tender together now to have an NRLW team and we will keep pressure on until we get one.

“We have some of the most loyal fans and members in the game and we have some of the best sponsors and partners in the game and we’re so appreciative of that. We will fight and continue the good fight and we won’t lose and we will be hear talking and laughing about this in another 20 years.”