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AAP Sports News (Australia)
04-22-2008
AFL: Titans boss sees hope for Gold Coast AFL team

By Laine Clark

BRISBANE, April 22 AAP - A twist of fate has given Titans boss Michael Searle hope
that a proposed Gold Coast AFL team won't follow the same path as the doomed Chargers.

A Gold Coast bid team today officially applied for the AFL's 17th licence and were
given six months to meet criteria spelled out by league boss Andrew Demetriou.

In a strange twist, the bid group is headed by lawyer John Witheriff who today revealed
he was once a member of the rescue team for the Gold Coast Chargers rugby league club.

The Chargers were killed off by 1999, a casualty of the Super League war.

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