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<blockquote data-quote="ak47" data-source="post: 282935"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nickdnz @ Oct 14 2009, 04:46 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=416446" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>Ask the man Matt Giteau himself</p><p><a href="http://" target="_blank">http://</a><em>For a while, Matt Giteau remained part of the same insurgency. "They really build up the First XV and make that team the be-all and end-all," Giteau says, in language just that tiny bit more clipped, more carefully phrased, than that of your average NRL player.</em></p><p></p><p><em>"By the time you hit year 11 and year 12 ... they told me if I wanted to play First XV, I had to give up league - so I did<strong>." Fair? "Not really,</strong> but if you wanted to play in that top team, that's what they were saying. But league at that time was getting a bit stale for me and I was starting to enjoy my union.</em></p><p></p><p><em>I saw no reason why I shouldn't give it up."</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ak47, post: 282935"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nickdnz @ Oct 14 2009, 04:46 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=416446']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> Ask the man Matt Giteau himself [url="http://"][/url][i]For a while, Matt Giteau remained part of the same insurgency. "They really build up the First XV and make that team the be-all and end-all," Giteau says, in language just that tiny bit more clipped, more carefully phrased, than that of your average NRL player.[/i] [i]"By the time you hit year 11 and year 12 ... they told me if I wanted to play First XV, I had to give up league - so I did[b]." Fair? "Not really,[/b] but if you wanted to play in that top team, that's what they were saying. But league at that time was getting a bit stale for me and I was starting to enjoy my union.[/i] [i]I saw no reason why I shouldn't give it up."[/i] [/QUOTE]
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