The Walker brothers, engineers of a revival of rugby league's freewheeling heyday, have approached the Gold Coast Titans about taking their exciting brand of football to the "boring" NRL.

Ben and Shane Walker, co-coaches at the Ipswich Jets where their unconventional brand of football secured a Queensland Cup title in 2015, have approached the Titans to replace sacked coach Neil Henry at Robina.

The axe fell on Henry this week amid a feud with Titans million-dollar man Jarryd Hayne as the Titans limped towards season's end with just seven wins in the book.

Neil Henry's relationship with Jarryd Hayne was "the catalyst" for his firing. ( AAP: Dave Hunt )

Ben Walker confirmed last night that the pair's manager, former State of Origin fullback Clinton Schifcofske, had reached out to Titans chief executive Graham Annesley about taking their unique brand of football to the NRL.

"The Gold Coast has been craving success down there and we'd only be in it to win a grand final," he told ABC Grandstand.

"With our style of footy and the current squad that they have there I'm absolutely convinced that they would thrive under Shane and I.

"I'm not going to promise a grand final in year one but we'd build towards one."

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Since joining the Jets in 2011, the brothers, who appeared in more than 300 NRL games between them, have reimagined how the game is played with a style of football that incorporates short kickoffs, no wrestling and an embrace of running sideways or even backwards in a bid to maximise time in possession.

The brothers have had flirtations with a move to the NRL in the past, dipping their toes in the water for jobs at Newcastle and on the Gold Coast, but Walker said this would be their first serious tilt at a coaching job now that business commitments outside football had eased.

'Our style would suit Hayne'

And he was undeterred by the fate of Henry, who was let go amid a troubled relationship with code-hopping star Hayne.

Chris Walker, the third of the Walker of brothers to have played NRL football, played a handful of games with Hayne at the Parramatta Eels and was able to give his brothers valuable insight into the former San Francisco 49ers running back's approach to the game.

Sorry, this video has expired Jarryd Hayne breaks his silence on the sacking of Titans' coach Neil Henry

"I've never met Hayne but I played against him so I know how good he is," Ben Walker said.

"We have great confidence that our style would suit him. I'd love to have a coffee with him and see what makes him tick.

"Chris played with him at Parramatta and has given us some insights into what makes Jarryd tick and what he said I'm pretty convinced that our style would suit him."

Far from taking credit for reinventing the game, Ben Walker says the "contract football" approach follows the doctrine espoused half a century ago by former Queensland coach Duncan Thompson.

"You've only got to go back to the early '90s or late '80s in Origin, the ball was moved around a lot more," he said.

"That's all we're doing. Giving the ball to a mate in the team who's in a better position than the person carrying the ball is.

"There's not much revolution to it, it's just different to the boring structured way that we watch every week."

Walker did concede the Eels' 52-34 thumping of the Broncos last night broke the mould of the "boring" NRL, but said the game had a long way to go in the entertainment stakes.

"Nothing against the NRL, it's a wonderful product, but I think it's not as attractive as what it will be if we're coaching the Titans," he said.

It could be just the tonic the Titans need as the club battles to bring crowds back to Robina and do what no professional sports team has managed yet … thrive on the Glitter Strip.

Titans fans have been left uninspired by their team's struggles this season. ( AAP: Dave Hunt )

And Walker says "Jets football" would convert readily to the NRL, where the coaches would be able to spend more time preaching the concept to their players.

"We wouldn't have to modify the style at all. The fact that you'd have the squad fulltime would only enhance the current style," he said.

"We put a heap of work into our coaching but we only effectively get our boys for two hours a week hands on. The fact that we could have them fulltime would help out enormously.

"The way that we play right now, the boys call it Jets footy and rightly so because that's where we adopted the style but it would only go to the next level with a fulltime squad and using the best athletes that are out there."