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November 3rd 2009 @ 2:21am
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Giteau backs Tuqiri to be success in England
Wallabies five-eighth Matt Giteau backed former teammate Lote Tuqiri to be a big hit with Leicester after the English Premiership champions on Monday confirmed the signing of the dual international.
The contract is likely to be a short-term one with Tuqiri thought to have come to an agreement with Wests Tigers to relaunch his rugby league [...]
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captain nemo said | November 3rd 2009 @ 8:59am | Report comment
I think this is probably a better outcome for Lote than if he had gone back to the NRL with the West tigers.
Go_the_Wannabe's said | November 3rd 2009 @ 10:04am | Report comment
Giteau is obviously very tight with Lote and would have been disappointed with the ARU’s handling of Lote’s case. This goes along way to explaining Git’s current form.
Git’s went out with a bang at the Force cos he didn’t want the fans to think he was sooking over not getting his 3rd party money.
We need some similar motivation for him at test level now!
fox said | November 3rd 2009 @ 1:53pm | Report comment
Nobody cares.
formeropenside said | November 3rd 2009 @ 1:56pm | Report comment
I concur with my brother Fox and have nothing useful to add.
Rin said | November 3rd 2009 @ 5:26pm | Report comment
we already know that Lote had his contract torn up because ARU regetted signing him up on such a lucrative contract when he was getting over the hill, they were looking for an excuse to kick him out and free up some money.
Whatever Leicester Tigers paid for him it was too much!
AC said | November 3rd 2009 @ 5:34pm | Report comment
No Rin, he had it torn up because he was a goose and f’d up too many times. Remember “Last Chance Lote”?
Pretty convenient though.
danwighton said | November 3rd 2009 @ 6:23pm | Report comment
If he was in form, he would not have had it torn up. Simple Ben Cousins/Todd Carney syndrome (note: I am aware they eventually had their contracts torn up! – but at that time, there was considerable public (sponsorship/members) pressure to do so).
There was no external pressure on the ARU, because noone knows what it is that he got up to.
danwighton said | November 3rd 2009 @ 6:24pm | Report comment
***If anything****
If it was a big enough deal, we would know about it by now – apparently its just something to do with a girl in a hotel room – he wouldnt be the first unfaithful footballer…