Gold Coast coach Neil Henry can see no reason why the Titans should bear the full brunt of Greg Bird's lengthy NRL suspension.

Bird has been slapped with an eight-game ban after being found guilty of a dangerous throw on New Zealand's Jason Nightingale during Sunday's Anzac Test.

The grade two offence, as well as Bird's prior history, mean the back rower will not be seen on a rugby league field for the next two months.

Current convention means only matches where Bird is available for his NRL club count towards his ban, meaning the three State of Origin fixtures he also misses are not part of his suspension.

Henry believes that is harsh on the Titans, given Bird was playing for Australia at the time of the incident and he is an incumbent New South Wales player.

The Titans coach says if Bird's ban included Origin games he would only miss six games for the Titans, not eight and who he was representing at the time of the offence should be taken into account.

"It's one of those things where should he miss out on nine, 10, 11 games?," Henry said.

"That's the reality of it. He's not a fringe player. He's an incumbent player and, being fit, he would be picked (for New South Wales). We know that.

"That's an area maybe to look at, we could possibly explore that, but we're still missing him for a large period.

"It's certainly an area, even though it's a grey area. The responsibility, even though it's a representative game, it falls straight back on the club to defend it."

Bird apologises to Titans team-mates

Bird had addressed his team-mates before training on Friday and expressed his remorse.

"I apologised for the position that the team has been put in," Bird told Titans TV.

"An incident that has happened in a rep game, it's evidently going to impact on our team and I'm sorry I can't be out there with them.

"A lot has been said that I'm going to miss Origin but I'm missing a lot of time here playing for the Titans."

The 30-year-old has been banned four times since 2013 for dangerous throws and although Henry believes the grading for Sunday's incident was too severe, it is clearly an issue Bird needs to resolve.

"There is a very small margin for error and I have to address my technique."

Henry said Bird needs to temper the lifting side of his tackles..

"He's been caught out a few times, it's about being aggressive, stopping the ball and putting the man on his back," Henry said.

"He's just got to take that lifting out of it ... he needs to look at that. His loading will still be there so he only has to have a minor grade one again and he's got a holiday. It's a concern and he understands that."

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