For the 2014 season, the Titans committee entered a team into the flag football league, to provide further opportunities to play for existing members and to attract new members to the club who were not interested in playing contact.
Utilising players from the Senior Kitted team and later the Junior Team (Flag is for ages 16+). The Titans managed a respectable 4-6 record in 2014, going undefeated in tournaments in Manchester (Mayhem) and Calderdale.
For both 2015 and 2016 this model continued with no real focus on flag the team was an extension of the contact arm of the club, in 2015 the team finished 4th in the MEC South conference with a 4-9 record. The story was the same in 2016, 4th again this time with a 9-7 record in an expanded competition. Despite strong inter-conference performance they were unable to make the post-season due to the strength of the MEC South division.
During 2016, Richard McEwen and Alan Mead started to focus more on the flag team with formal training session and playbooks formulated. For 2017 the Titans now had a squad dedicated to flag football, with players from both the Adult and Women’s teams training flag twice a week on with a dedicated Tuesday night session that doesn’t collide with other club training session. The league announced that for 2018, there would be a two tier structure so to ensure they play at the highest level the Titans must finish in the top 2 position in their division which for 2017 contains’ Manchester Crows, Wigan Warhawks and Cheshire Cavaliers.
The Titans 2017 season was a great success, winning their division in the MEC the Titans clinched a berth in the top division as the leagues split into two tiers and made the 1/4 finals of the play-offs.
2018 saw the Titans build on their first division title as they again won the MEC Premier Division to qualify for the National Finals, where they finished 7th Overall.
In 2019, the Titans high scoring offense recorded 414 points – an average of over 50 points a game during MEC Games as they romped to another Division Title with a 10-4 record. The narrowly lost out to 2018’s Champions London Smoke in the playoffs and before beating Northants in “The Clash of the Titans” to again finish 7th in the UK.2020 saw the season cancelled due to COVID-19.As the world was recovering from the global pandemic, in 2021 it was decided that all football would be regional to prevent the spread of Corona Virus. The Titans saw a massive influx of players post-COVID – enough for a 2nd Team – nick-named “The Bees” because of the Manchester worker bee, and a play on “B-Team”. The Bees acquitted themselves very well in the combined Northwest region, while the Titans went 13-0 with their first undefeated season in their history.
In 2022, the Bees played in Division 1 and finished with a respectable 7-7 record. Meanwhile the Titans again went 10-4 and won the Northern Prem to qualify for the playoffs. A resounding victory over the Grangemouth Broncos gave them a semi-final match up against the former champion Cardiff Hurricanes, but despite the Titans leading with 2 minutes to go, Cardiff battled back to snatch victory, leaving the Titans as the 4th best team in the UK.
2023 saw the Titans having 2 Division winning sides as the Bees won the Division 1 North B Title and promotion to the Premiership, whilst the Titans won the Northern Premiership title. Once again the Titans stumbled in the playoffs, despite an epic victory over the Reading Devils, they lost in the Semi Finals to the Glasgow Hornets and ended up 4th in the Country again.
In 2024, the Titans and the Bees both resided in the Northern Premiership, whilst a 3rd Team, the Tridents was formed for new players to play in Division 1. The Titans missed out on the Division Title but still made the playoffs where they were knocked out by the London Smoke. But they managed to claim the Plate Trophy with a string of victories over the Broncos, Crows and Outlaws. Unfortunately the Bees failed to secure their place in the Premiership as they lost out in the Promotion/Relegation games and will join the Tridents in Division 1 for 2025.
