Haas Brothers Set Fifth Clash in Broncos Vs Titans Derby
broncos vs titans will put the Haas brothers on opposite sides again on Saturday night at Suncorp Stadium. Klese Haas and Payne Haas are set for their fifth meeting, with the head-to-head locked at two wins apiece.
Klese Haas Chases Bragging Rights
The Titans prop said the family edge still matters. “Hopefully I get bragging rights over him. He's got a lot to brag about, so hopefully I get something over him.”
Klese Haas, 24, has played 70 NRL games and knows the size of the assignment. Payne Haas, 26, has already set a standard the younger brother keeps chasing, and the derby gives him another chance to square the ledger in front of the same crowd.
Payne Haas Returns To Suncorp
The Broncos prop comes in after producing 281 metres and 33 tackles in a 30-26 loss to St George Illawarra. That output sits inside a Brisbane run that has gone four losses in a row and left the club in 11th place.
Payne Haas will join South Sydney next year, while Klese Haas is contracted to the Gold Coast through 2027. That means Saturday night is one more chapter in a rivalry that still has no clear edge, even as the clubs around them search for form.
Titans Form Under Pressure
The Gold Coast have dropped their last five matches and sit in 16th place, which gives the derby a sharper edge than the sibling angle alone. Klese Haas said the group feels it can still finish games better: “There's been a lot of games where the 50-50 calls aren't going our way, but I feel a lot of the games we are in it right to the end and it's just execution at the end of the day.”
He also said the pair keep talking right through the week. “We talk almost every day and he's probably the first person to message me after games and see how I pulled up, so it's really good.”
The messages will keep coming, but not the game plans. “He always calls me and gives me like a paragraph of stuff to work on after games, so it's good to have someone to lean on like that.”
For the Titans, the more immediate task is carrying that relationship into a match where the Broncos need to reset after another defeat and the Gold Coast need to stop the slide. Klese Haas said the mood around Brisbane will be heated after the loss, and both teams arrive with a record that makes Saturday night about far more than sibling bragging rights.
