UPDATE: CEO Graham Annesley can’t guarantee more Titans won’t be charged in relation to the Gold Coast cocaine scandal.

Six past and present players have now been charged - including Origin stars Greg Bird and Dave Taylor.

All have been stood down with immediate affect. So far five have indicated they will defend the charges.

Bird and Taylor were this afternoon served with notices to front court, just hours after the Titans arrived back on the Glitter Strip from a trial match in Cairns.

media_camera Greg Bird and Dave Taylor have been charged.

Winger Kalifa Faifai Loa and former squad member Joe Vickery were also charged today, while hooker Beau Falloon and fringe first grader Jamie Dowling were charged on Friday.

High-profile Queensland Reds star Karmichael Hunt has also been charged.

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Annesley said he believed, to his knowledge, no more players are set to be charged, but he made no guarantee.

“To the best of my knowledge, and I’m not getting a lot of information from the authorities, so I’m cautious about this, but this is it,” he said.

Annesley agreed he’d had a “gutful” with the crisis.

“It’s stating the bleeding obvious, we’ve all had enough. We’re all over it.

“The players that aren’t involved in this are over it. We want some clear air for this club. We want the opportunity to show the potential that this club has.

media_camera Beau Falloon is one of the players charged. Picture: Mike Batterham

Defence lawyer Campbell MacCallum will represent five of the players charged and said they would emphatically defend the charges.

Mr MacCallum represents Bird, Taylor, Faifai Loa, Dowling and Vickery.

He said the players were shattered at the accusations.

Annesley said the club would begin a process to determine whether the players charged by police could indeed be sacked before the court process is finalised.

“The board has made it very clear that whilst all of these players, the five players involved so far, are entitled to a presumption of innocence in the courts until they have the opportunity to defend the charges, that the club intends to run a separate contractual process where the players will in the near future be required to attend and meet with the board and explain why action should not be taken against them for the reputational damage that the club has incurred as a result of the players placing themselves in a situation where they have been charged with these matters.

“We expect that will take a little bit of time because at the moment we have very little information from which to make that assessment, but over the coming days, or perhaps the next week or so, we will hope we have more information and at that time the players will be called to appear before the board.”

Annesley praised the support received from the community, NRL and rugby league boss Dave Smith, and said that rugby league would continue its prominence on the Gold Coast.

“It’s such a fantastic region of this country, in the middle of rugby league heartland,” he said. “This is the sixth largest city in the country. It deserves to have a rugby league team to be proud of.”

Bird has been one of the club’s best players for the past five years and was co-captain until he was busted urinating in public in Byron Bay the day after his wedding late last year.

Taylor is one of the most damaging ball runners in the game, racking up eight Origin matches for Queensland and a Test for Australia.

Titans players arrived back on the Gold Coast from Cairns this morning, with most refusing to comment as they left the airport.

media_camera Kalifa Faifai Loa has been charged.

Vickery, 25, is a former Titans squad member who spent the last two seasons playing in the British Super League, including stints at Leeds and Wakefield.

He has since returned to the Gold Coast but is not an active member on the Titans roster.

Faifai Loa, also 25, joined the Titans last year after playing stints with St George Illawarra and North Queensland Cowboys.

He has played Test football for the Kiwis and Samoa.

Falloon was named Titans player of the year last season, while Dowling has played 12 first grade games.

Titans players will attend a series of crisis meetings with their managers, club officials and lawyers on the Gold Coast on Sunday night with some managers planning to meet their players at Gold Coast Airport on Sunday afternoon in case police are present to serve them on site.