It’s easy for Kristy Prince to explain just how much attention she paid to the NRL before meeting her husband, Scott.

“None at all! The only footy I watched, because it’s something you have to do living in Queensland, was State of Origin. I always went for Queensland, but I never had any other interest in football whatsoever,” she says.

“Now, it’s a different story. I pretty much watch every game of the week … I love watching with a pizza and a beer.”

Even though her two girls refuse to sit still for eighty minutes to watch a full game, Kristy says they're an invaluable asset to a footballer.

"To succeed I think you need ambition, drive, a sense of self-achievement and self-worth. But having a family, having kids makes a big difference, too."

"It definitely made a big difference to Scott; he feels like he’s got something to work for. He needs to provide for the kids and he wants them to be proud of him."

She explains that their little family has also found a home at the Titans. Despite the demands on each player and their family's time - Kristy is also a paramedic in the Gold Coast - the Titans crew still manage to meet up for dinners, and glam up for the annual charity ball.

But Kristy is, perhaps unintentionally, avoiding the WAG cliche of living to dress up and be photographed. In 2009 she went bald to benefit the Leukaemia Foundation as part of Shave for a Cure, and she can talk endlessly about the community work her husband and his team take part in at the Titans. She sees community work as one of the major reasons the Gold Coast team have such a strong supporter base.

"They’ve just got such a good community spirit. They’re constantly out there, they’ve spent hours and hours in the community spending time with kids. They have a Titans Learning Centre where they go and read to the kids. And because they want to have such good community involvement to promote the club and have the guys involved with interacting with the community, people feel like they’re involved first-hand with the club."

The WAG curse can be hard to shake, though, and the wife of a league star can be an easy target for questions about scandal and bad behaviour.

"I just try and give them an honest answer," says Kristy. "Sometimes I agree, other times the media tends to embellish a little and it's not quite as true. It's just a matter of finding the truth, and if I know it I'll say it".

And in the week leading up to Origin, she's equally up-front with New South Wales fans: "who'll win? Queensland!"

"The Blues picked a 21 man squad, they just can't settle on a team! They can't keep the same team for long enough for them to gel well enough together. The other factor is that they’re in Queensland, so they’ve got the edge. Sorry, guys!"