Matt Giteau - a rooster ????

[Guest]

Lol this guy probably got pissed at a function Gits was at and decided to drunkenly brag, you can tell from the photo they're not pals.

ha ha I definitely got pissed n I suffered all day today. I just said what I was told, I don't think I was trying to brag n at no stage did I say we were pals. As you can see from the title of the thread I merely asked a question n it got people talking about the pro's n con's which is really what I wanted to do n from what I have read most agree it would be a bad move. I still think the guy has something to offer n in his prime could have been an awesome rugby league player but that is just my opinion which, just like arseholes, everyone has one.

Troy.

[ROC181]

So they replaced him with wonder boy Quade...Good one Deans! I'm 100% positive Giteau would have done a better job. Giteau would be much better than Mortimer.

[Guest]

So they replaced him with wonder boy Quade...Good one Deans! I'm 100% positive Giteau would have done a better job. Giteau would be much better than Mortimer.

People complain about how boring rugby is and you want Giteau at 10?

At least Cooper's errors were interesting. And at least he is talented.

Giteau had some talent a fair while ago. He is now hopeless.

Deans made many, many poor choices, including the repeated selection of McCabe, McCalman and even Elsom, but leaving Giteau out was not one of them.

[Guest]

Topic is funny. But I remember Ronnie Giteau playing for the Roosters. Actually, I remember Ronnie playing for the magpies before us. There really isn't any ties between the Roosters and the Giteau's.

[Kingbilly]

The best thing that happened to Aust Rugby since they pissed Eddie Jones off was to get rid of Giteau.

[Guest]

he was following the well laid footsteps of gregan larkham little horan et al in hanging around at the aru getting 500 a year to be mediocre

only diff was he started a lot younger

let someone else pay off his property portfolio

[ROC181]

People complain about how boring rugby is and you want Giteau at 10?

At least Cooper's errors were interesting. And at least he is talented.

Giteau had some talent a fair while ago. He is now hopeless.

Deans made many, many poor choices, including the repeated selection of McCabe, McCalman and even Elsom, but leaving Giteau out was not one of them.

People..right!!! so these 'people' are right? Are you one of these 'people'? I'm not. I like rugby. Giteau is better than Cooper, then and now. Cooper might recover one day.I suspect If you don't like rugby, then you don't know the difference.

[Kingbilly]

Big Morls, no one can accuse Larkham of lazing around, of all those players he was quality and if he had a decent half inside him he would have been touted as one of the greatest ever.

ROC I love Rugby too, but Giteau is incredibly overrated in my opinion. He never had the ball skills nor the consistent general play kicking game to be a "Real" #10, wasn't big enough for a centre and was not fast enough for an outside back, in fact he never really had anything that to me warranted his selection in any Australian side.

[ROC181]

The best thing that happened to Aust Rugby since they pissed Eddie Jones off was to get rid of Giteau.

So your suggesting that our RWC was successful through not having Giteau? Come on KB, you told me you follow the game. I'm not an out right Cooper or Giteau fan but I always found it strange not having Giteau in the squad. I think that Giteau is a little more reliable than the mercurial Cooper. My belief is that Giteau and Barnes would have been a better fly half/ inside center combo.

[Guest]

So your suggesting that our RWC was successful through not having Giteau? Come on KB, you told me you follow the game. I'm not an out right Cooper or Giteau fan but I always found it strange not having Giteau in the squad. I think that Giteau is a little more reliable than the mercurial Cooper. My belief is that Giteau and Barnes would have been a better fly half/ inside center combo.

It was the right decision to start Cooper in 10. He played extremly well during the regular season. Giteau should have made the squad on his versatility alone. We had 3 halfbacks in the squad. Deans should however have recognised Cooper was overwhelmed earlier in the competition and should not have persisted with him. Barnes should have been there either next to Cooper or starting ahead of him to provide some stability.

Hindsight is a beautiful thing however. On his day Cooper is as good as any. He just lacks consistency.

[Kingbilly]

Big Morls, no one can accuse Larkham of lazing around, of all those players he was quality and if he had a decent half inside him he would have been touted as one of the greatest ever.

ROC I love Rugby too, but Giteau is incredibly overrated in my opinion. He never had the ball skills nor the consistent general play kicking game to be a "Real" #10, wasn't big enough for a centre and was not fast enough for an outside back, in fact he never really had anything that to me warranted his selection in any Australian side.

The RWC I consider a failure in many ways, the only game I was proud of was the South African one and yet it showed our lack of attack.
I just believe that Giteau was never really that good ever and always surprised that he played for Australia. I certainly don't think he would have made any difference at all, except if he had played against SA we would have lost.

[Guest]

Big Morls, no one can accuse Larkham of lazing around, of all those players he was quality and if he had a decent half inside him he would have been touted as one of the greatest ever.

ROC I love Rugby too, but Giteau is incredibly overrated in my opinion. He never had the ball skills nor the consistent general play kicking game to be a "Real" #10, wasn't big enough for a centre and was not fast enough for an outside back, in fact he never really had anything that to me warranted his selection in any Australian side.

Larkham was an incredible natural talent with a great mind and good ball skills, my point was he went about two years too long and I think him not taking the field as we were bundled out of RWC 07 by a woeful England attests to my argument. Also agree that he spent a career making Gregan look incredible which was testament to Larkhams talent because Gregan was awful.

Giteau did have one thing when he was about 17 "Potential" he never lived up to it and the fact they kept picking him for over ten years until Aussie Bob Deans wised up to his ruse is embarassing.

He is a big never was and hopefully never will be a Rooster

[Guest]

It was the right decision to start Cooper in 10. He played extremly well during the regular season. Giteau should have made the squad on his versatility alone. We had 3 halfbacks in the squad. Deans should however have recognised Cooper was overwhelmed earlier in the competition and should not have persisted with him. Barnes should have been there either next to Cooper or starting ahead of him to provide some stability.

Hindsight is a beautiful thing however. On his day Cooper is as good as any. He just lacks consistency.

What versatility is that, the ability to be mediocre at everything?

[Guest]

People..right!!! so these 'people' are right? Are you one of these 'people'? I'm not. I like rugby. Giteau is better than Cooper, then and now. Cooper might recover one day.I suspect If you don't like rugby, then you don't know the difference.

No. I too like rugby.

Giteau was good, once. Not great, probably not even very good, but a standard good.

He is now very, very ordinary. His game against Samoa was atrocious - all across field, directionless, aimless "attack" - if you can call it that. It exposed an ageing player who never really achieved what he was supposed to.

If we had selected him as first five, it would have been a massive step backwards for Australian rugby.

Maybe you should suspect less and start talking about what you actually know.

[Guest]

He is crap these day. Anyway he has signed with a French Rugby Club.