{"id":396619,"date":"2024-05-23T21:34:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T21:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=396619"},"modified":"2024-05-23T23:05:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T23:05:19","slug":"footy-power-couple-pleased-after-fifita-backflip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=396619","title":{"rendered":"Footy power couple 'pleased' after Fifita backflip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Titans<\/a> forward Shaylee Bent admits she was thrilled when her partner David Fifita\ufeff<\/a> turned his back on a $3.3 million deal with the Roosters to recommit to Gold Coast<\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Fifita informed the Titans he would be leaving the club at season's end, before quickly agreeing to terms with the Tricolours on a huge four-year deal.<\/p>\n

However, \ufeffin a stunning turn of events, the 24-year-old backflipped on the arrangement to re-sign with the Titans for a further two seasons.<\/p>\n

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After \ufefffour seasons with the Dragons, Bent signed with the Titans ahead of the 2023 NRLW<\/a> season, with the pair first starting a long-distance relationship in 2022.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the \ufeffNRL's Indigenous Round launch on Wednesday, Bent was grateful her relationship was not going to be once again split between Sydney and the Goldy.<\/p>\n

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"I honestly was so pleased," she told media of Fifta's decision to stay at the Titans.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffI've moved from Penrith to the Gold Coast \u2014 I'd been back and forth from the Dragons. To finally have a year when I'm on the Gold Coast full time and I don't have to do long distance coming back and forth is so pleasing for me.<\/p>\n

"I'm so thankful that we're both at the Titans this year and hopefully, for me next year as well because my life is up there now."<\/p>\n

Bent is off contract at the end of the upcoming NRLW season which begins on July 25 but always intended to continue her career on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n

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"I'm really happy where I am at the Titans and I love my team," she said.<\/p>\n

"The success we had last year \u2014 making \ufeffit to the grand final after coming dead last the year before. So, we're building something big and I want to be there [for that].<\/p>\n

"It's the same with David, [the Gold Coast] is our home now. We love the community, we love the fans, we love the club and we love our teams.<\/p>\n

"We've built a life up there so we're really happy.\ufeff"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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