IT’S a tough question for me to answer because the Broncos played such a massive role in the early stages of my rugby league career.

Everyone asks whether I’m going to play for the Broncos again in the future and all I can tell them is that if it happens, it happens. If it’s meant to be it’s meant to be.

I wouldn’t be at the Titans if it wasn’t meant to be, I wouldn’t be playing first grade if the Titans didn’t give me an opportunity and I wouldn’t be playing my 50th NRL game this week if it wasn’t for the Titans.

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I was nine years old and living in western Queensland when the Broncos came to do a clinic at St George State School. I don’t remember exactly which players came, all I remember is trying to be the best in every drill we did to try and impress these guys that I idolised.

In our house Mum was a Broncos fan and Dad went for the Storm and I probably leaned towards the Storm when I was really young. Once we moved to Toowoomba when I was 11 I started going for the Broncos and loved everything they did.

Ash Taylor working with Brisbane Broncos coach Wayne Bennett in 2015. Photo: Annette Dew Source: News Corp Australia

I signed my first Broncos scholarship when I was 12 years old and not long after that moved into the development squad.

Being such a young age, I was shocked that I was signing a piece of paper that had the Brisbane Broncos printed across the top.

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You think you’ve become part of what is a very successful club and the fact that they were going to put time into develop you into a better footy player was surreal.

Getting the team gear at that age was probably the coolest thing. I used to get two training shirts, two training shorts and a pair of Nike boots and joggers. That was the best thing ever.

It really hit me that I was part of the Broncos when I’d come down once a month from Toowoomba.

Coming down and seeing where they train and seeing their lockers, just being around the same facility that the Broncos used at the time was a massive step and made me pretty nervous.

Darren Lockyer was always my hero growing up and I remember Dad coming in and embarrassing me by taking a photo of me in front of his locker. It was pretty embarrassing.

At the time the Broncos were the only club I wanted to play for. I didn’t want to be anywhere else.

One thing I always saw as an under-20s player walking through the Leagues Club was the little tiles they have on the floor with the names of everyone who has played for the Broncos and how many games they played for the club.

That’s what I wanted and when I made my debut in Round 26, 2015 I became part of Broncos history forever but I haven’t actually been back to see if my name’s on the floor of the Leagues Club yet.

We’re now trying to forge a new history at the Titans and there’s no doubt playing against the Broncos means just that little bit more.

Ash Taylor made his NRL debut for the Broncos in Round 26, 2015 but lasted just 26 minutes before suffering two broken fingers. Photo: Darren England. Source: News Corp Australia

For a number of us we are playing against mates we had at the club and also guys who you trained alongside coming up through the grades.

Every year that I play them I love the lead-up to the game because I know how important a game it is for myself and my team.

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We haven’t beaten them in the four games that I’ve played against the Broncos since coming to the Titans and we’re still trying to shake that tag as the little brother of the Broncos.

They’ve been successful over the years and won premierships and that’s something we’re yet to achieve.

We’ve come close to beating them but haven’t been able to tip it over the line against them. If we were to beat them on Sunday we’d probably get the same reaction as we got when we beat the Storm last year.

Ash Taylor is contracted to the Titans until the end of the 2021 season. Photo: Jason O'Brien Source: Getty Images

To beat the Broncos at Suncorp would be massive for me but also for the team to beat a successful club.

The rivalry has been one-sided in recent years but I can promise our members and supporters that we’re all working hard at the Titans to make it a genuine rivalry between the two clubs.

We want to fill out Cbus Super Stadium but we haven’t been able to do that because we haven’t been performing.

Once we start performing and showing people that we can play footy I’m sure that we’ll get more people into the stadium and we’ll take our fair share of big scalps.

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