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A gut feeling convinced former Socceroo Brett Holman to overlook big-money European offers and sign with A-League team Brisbane Roar.Holman has arrived in Brisbane after penning a two-year deal with the club, which will see him play under the salary cap this season but become a marquee player in 2017-18.The experienced attacking utility could have moved back to the Netherlands, where he made his name, remained in the Middle East, where he has played for the past two years on a comfortable salary, or chosen a more stable A-League club to return to.But Holman, 32, said the Roar was the right fit in every way.With almost every move Ive made, football comes first and foremost, Holman told reporters.I think a lot of footballers know you have to have a gut feeling about what sort of move you make.Everything has to come together.Theres different factors, having a young family, but weve been speaking for a while and my gut said this was the right move for me.Holman, who scored twice at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, hasnt played in Australia since leaving the Parramatta Power to embark on a professional career in Europe nearly 14 years ago.The move reunites him with Roar coach John Aloisi, who he played alongside at the 2004 Olympics, as well another ex-Socceroo teammate in football director Craig Moore.At the back end of last season, I saw a few of the games, they went really close to achieving the almost impossible in the season they had, he said.That sort of shows what sort of coach (Aloisi) is that rubs off the team.You saw in difficult circumstances how well Brisbane Roar were playing. 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Australian and NSW State of Origin back-rower Greg Birds NRL career is seemingly over, after he was released from the final year of his Gold Coast contract to join Catalans Dragons in the English Super League.The Titans met the 32-year-olds request for a release on Wednesday night, before the 235-game NRL veteran joined the French-based club on a five-year deal.Bird played for the Dragons in 2009, after they resurrected his career following his sacking from Cronulla at the end of the 2008 season.I had always intended to return to the Dragons and promised (Catalans chairman) Bernard (Guasch) I would come back and win a premiership, Bird said.They reached out to me and offered me a long-term deal this week which I was only too happy to agreed to.Birds exit from the Titans comes after he was believed to have found himself under the eye of NSW Police and the NRLs intergrity unit last month, following an alleged incident at a Brunswick Heads pub where he was denied entry.He later took to social media to deny anyy wrongdoing in the matter, where he claimed he ran in to break up a scuffle between a friend and security.dddddddddddd.A co-captain with Nate Myles in 2013 and 2014, he was stripped of the position after he was caught urinating near an unmarked police car in late-2014, also in the Byron Bay region, leaving him on his last chance at the Titans.He played 129 games for the club on his return from France and helped the Titans to the finals in his first and last seasons there in 2010 and 2016.No one can doubt the commitment Greg has played with throughout his career whether it be for his club, his state or his country, Titans chief executive Graham Annesley said.He is a fierce competitor and always gives 100 per cent which is why his teammates at all levels love playing alongside him.Bird played 18 Origin games and 17 Tests, but was dropped from both Origin and Test sides this year. 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