Mal Meninga believes Kevin Proctor was trying to defend himself in biting Shaun Johnson. KANGAROOS coach Mal Meninga has signed a coaching deal with the Gold Coast Titans in a move sanctioned by the NRL AAP November 7, 2018 … KANGAROOS coach Mal Meninga has signed a coaching deal with the Gold Coast Titans in a move sanctioned by the NRLMen of League dinner at Brothers Leagues Club. Meninga will remain Australian coach as he balances his new role, which will include mentoring second-year NRL coach Garth Brennan.Club chairman Dennis Watt said Meninga would be used across the business both on and off the field.“To have someone like Mal Meninga, with everything that he has achieved in the game, be so excited about joining the Titans is a terrific show of faith and belief in the strength, leadership and potential of the Gold Coast,” he said.But Meninga said he wouldn’t step on Brennan’s toes when it came to running the team.“I have said on several occasions I have no desire to return to NRL club coaching and that remains the case.Rugby league legend Mal Meninga has joined the Gold Coast Titans.“But working with the Titans — the youngest club in the NRL — in this role allows me to contribute to the game at club level with new and different challenges.”NRL CEO Todd Greenberg said a condition of the appointment was that Meninga’s national coaching duties would continue to have top priority.“Mal is required throughout the year to promote the game, providing mentoring and assistance to young players and to assist with the elite level of the game,” Greenberg said.“But since there are no Kangaroos matches until the end of the 2019 season he will have capacity to devote to the Titans’ role.“It is crucial that we do all we can to protect and develop rugby league in the heartland of the Gold Coast and northern New South Wales and I have no doubt Mal will help achieve that.”Brennan said he also supports the move, claiming he will enjoy being able to work alongside rugby league’s newest immortal.“Mal is a legend of the game and clearly has much to offer with his insights on leadership“He will be a great sounding board for myself and the coaching staff.”Meninga said he will move to the Gold Coast to be able to work with the Titans in a full-time role. Kangaroos coach Mal Meninga during a Q & A at the dinner. GOLD Coast Titans have announced their biggest signing of the 2019 season — Mal Meninga. Rugby league legend Mal Meninga has been given autonomy to conduct a comprehensive review of the Titans football department in a move club hierarchy hope will re-establish the Gold Coast … That dampens my achievement forever, it’s a sour ending to a milestone game.“I am filthy that I let my teammates down. Meninga was on the Gold Coast … This is also known as Online Behavioural Advertising. After that 10 minutes, I said to our football manager Anthony Laffranchi, ‘How many minutes left?’ and he said, ‘Mate you are gone for the game’.“I thought the sin bin was bad, but when I realised I was sent off, I was gutted.”After the Kiwi Test forward was sent off the Sharks ran away with the game. He has been sent straight to the judiciary for the alleged bite and told the “I will be telling the NRL judiciary I didn’t bite Shaun Johnson,” Proctor said.“Rugby league has been going on for 112 years and no-one has ever been sent off for alleged biting.“To be accused of biting someone is the lowest thing you can face as a footballer.”Proctor was so assertive that Fox League analyst Braith Anasta even started to doubt it was a bite.“The fact he’s so strong on it, I’m starting to doubt myself a little bit and I want to keep looking at the bite to see if I’m right… but unless I’m going crazy I still believe it is a bite,” he told the Ben Ikin says it “looks and smells like a bite” but believes if Proctor can provide enough evidence that“He clearly thinks he didn’t bite him on purpose, Shaun Johnson feels something on his arm, he immediately reacts, apparently cameras have picked up a bite mark, which Kevin Proctor says it’s not true and that can’t have happened.“He’s going to get his day in front of the judiciary, he’s going to be able to argue his case, so if he absolutely believes he did not do this and he’s got the evidence to support his case then he will get off but based on what I’ve seen thus far, that looks and smells like a bite to me.”Proctor, 31, believes there was no need for him to be sent off, in fact he actually thought he had just been sent for 10 in the bin.