Former Wallabies fly-half Carter Gordon seems set for a return to rugby union, with NRL facet the Gold Coast Titans reportedly agreeing to launch the playmaker one 12 months early.
Code Sports activities revealed on Friday morning that the Titans have accepted a six-figure switch price from Rugby Australia, which has additionally been reported by The Roar.
It’s believed Gordon will keep within the Sunshine State, with the Queensland Reds shaping up because the 24-year-old’s possible vacation spot, as Sydney Morning Herald scribe Michael Chammas revealed earlier this week.
Gordon made the swap to rugby league in 2024, starring in Queensland’s Hostplus Cup within the centres and halves. In eight appearances for the Tweed Seagulls, Gordon scored 5 tries, kicked 9 targets, and accomplished about 87 per cent of his sort out makes an attempt.
After an extended stint on the sidelines this 12 months with a major again damage, Gordon debuted at NRL for the Titans of their final-round conflict with the Wests Tigers. Gordon performed within the centres fairly than the halves.
The Roar’s Christy Doran revealed on Thursday that Gordon might doubtlessly be a shock inclusion in Joe Schmidt’s Wallabies squad for his or her Spring Tour. Gordon final performed a aggressive match of rugby union on June 8, 2024, for the Melbourne Rebels.
Gordon was the Wallabies’ first-choice fly-half on the 2023 Rugby World Cup below coach Eddie Jones, with Ben Donaldson additionally masking that position. One other eventual code-hopper featured in that squad, with Mark Nawaqanitawase impressing on the wing.
Nawaqanitawase signed with the Sydney Roosters and later topped the NRL’s try-scoring charts within the 2025 common season. It’s since been reported that Nawaqaniatwase will return to the 15-player sport, with Japanese or French membership rugby the winger’s subsequent step.
“Is it a shock? Is it a shock,” 2002 Sydney Roosters premiership participant Brian Fletcher mentioned on SEN 1170 Drive final month.
“It’s all the time been mooted that he wished to return to rugby, however he ought to thank the Roosters as a result of how a lot do you assume this earlier season has added to his contract?
“What is going to occur now could be I’d think about we don’t see him in league after 2027 as a result of it’ll be the World Cup, then French rugby, Japanese rugby, even English rugby.”
