Beau Falloon has vowed to get back to his best for the Titans. Source: Richard Gosling / News Corp Australia
GOLD Coast hooker Beau Falloon has vowed to make amends for his frustrating start to the NRL season and help lead the Titans to a breakthrough home victory against Penrith.
Falloon has endured a difficult season with any momentum he planned to carry over from his Titans player of the year award last year crushed by repeated disruptions.
First a hamstring strain cost him appearances in the first trial game or Nines tournament.
Next were the cocaine charges that resulted in him and four teammates being stood down for the first two weeks of the NRL season by the Titans.
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Falloon struggled as off-field pressures got to him. Source: News Corp Australia
Two games later Falloon was suspended again, this time copping two weeks for a lifting tackle charge that was his second suspension for the offence within a year.
Falloon was also lucky to escape a ban last year for an offence against the Storm, saved only because the tackled player landed on his arm despite being up-ended.
Now as he prepares to return against the Panthers, Falloon has vowed to tidy up his tackling technique and deliver the performances on the field that last year earned selection for NSW City Origin.
"It's been frustrating, I haven't had the best start to the year," Falloon said.
"It's been really disruptive but I've been doing some really hard training. The fitness is not a problem. I'm fit and raring to go.
"The suspension from that tackle didn't come at the best time. I just need to put all that behind me now and focus on stringing some really good games together.
"I'm planning on staying on the field a bit longer than the two weeks this time."
Falloon said as a smaller man he'd developed a tackling technique in his junior career of going lower on the big men and lifting them off the ground to halt their momentum.
Over the past fortnight he has worked extensively with coach Neil Henry and defensive co-ordinator Rohan Smith to develop a technique that is safer within the rules of the game.
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"I've got a bit of a not a bad technique, but just an old habit you can't do anymore," he said.
"I've been working on that the last two weeks so hopefully I can put that into practice and hopefully I don't get charged anymore with lifting tackles.
"One of my habits I have is trying to get under them and I tend to lift. That is what gets me in trouble.
"I've got to get it out of my game, which I'm trying really hard too."
It will be Falloon's second game alongside rookie five-eighth Kane Elgey but he said the 21-year-old was showing positive signs of being quality playmaker for the club.
"He has come along really good. He is out there playing his role and he is a good exciting young kid. Hopefully he just keeps building on his game every week," Falloon said.
"He is only young so he is just going out there and doing his job. That is all we expect of him. "He doesn't have to set the world on fire or anything like that. As long as he goes out and does his job that is the main thing."
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