Newcastle Knights beat injury-hit Gold Coast Titans in NRL round seven Gold Coast sustained some serious damage on the scoreboard and in the injury department as Newcastle logged their first away win of the NRL season at Skilled Park on Sunday. Greg Bird of the Titans. THE Titans face a brutal trip across the Tasman next week without eight top line players after Origin star Ashley Harrison, utility Luke O'Dwyer and hooker Matt Srama suffered serious injuries in the club's brutal 30-6 loss to Newcastle at Skilled Park. A shattered Gold Coast outfit were cut down to just 14 men inside the opening 10 minutes, ending any hope of competing with a full strength Newcastle. After a 4-2 start to the season, the Titans, now 4-3, face a horror trip to New Zealand for Sunday's clash against the Warriors. Harrison will undergo scans today but is facing at least a month out with an ankle syndesmosis injury and twisted knee while O'Dwyer (broken jaw) and Srama (compound finger fracture) are set for lengthy stints on the sideline. The trio are joined by centre Brad Takairangi (hamstring), forward Ben Ridge (pec), prop Matt White (knee) and wingers Kevin Gordon (hamstring) and David Mead (jaw) on the injury list. The Titans lost the trio inside the opening 10 minutes yesterday, smashing their bench rotation under the searing Gold Coast sun and allowing Newcastle to run in a late flurry of tries in front of 14,201 fans. "On a day like that, to lose three players in the first 20 minutes isn't ideal," Titans coach John Cartwright said. I spoke at half-time that we nearly had to play the perfect half of football with only one front rower on the bench. We couldn't give them any cheap ball or possession but unfortunately that's what we did. At 12-6, with 25 minutes to go, I thought there was a big shift in momentum there. We went back to our starting halves and that made us a little bit more stable. Ashley Harrison down injured. Picture: Adam Head Source: The Courier-Mail From that point we came up with some errors. Some bad kicks and errors. It was a shame the scoreboard got out to that because it wasn't a reflection of the game. If a few things went our way against Parramatta (28-22 win) they definitely didn't go our way today. A mad scramble saw halfback Albert Kelly shifted to left centre in the first half with Greg Bird moved into the halves. Kelly reverted back to his preferred position in the second half and scored a tearaway try to make it 12-6, but a double to James McManus and late try to Blues hopeful Akuila Uate blew out the score. O'Dwyer and Harrison were on the receiving ends of unpenalised high tackles when injured and Cartwright predicted the match review panel would be busy today. "Him (O'Dwyer) and Harro both got hit and got up holding their heads," he said. I don't know what happened in the tackles. I'll have to have a look at it. Both were groggy after the tackles and those were the tackles they got injured in. They look at them every week so I daresay they will (review) them. They didn't replay them a lot at the ground but both those boys don't lie down.