 The opening round also saw two matches at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium, one featured reigning champions Brisbane playing fellow Queensland side the Cowboys, while the second match introduced the newest club to be admitted to the competition, the Gold Coast Titans.The North Queensland Cowboys' Jason Smith was the NRL's oldest player in 2007 at 35 years and 186 days.Teams had fewer byes in 2007 than in the 2006 competition.