Talk:Ron Giteau

Personal Memory of Ron Giteau

I remember going to watch a game at lidcombe in the mid 1970's when Western Suburbs had their home ground on Olympic Boulevarde. Western Suburbs were playing my team, the Balmain Tigers. The ground was cut back into a rise and a railway line ran along the top of the rise. On this day Ron Giteau lined up a kick for goal and as he kicked it a goods train came past. The ball sailed between the posts, over the fence and landed in an open railway goods carriage. That was the last we saw of that ball.

In the early 1990's, Ron Giteau had a mobile fish sales van and often pulled in to the service station in the ACT near where I lived. Ron had married a New Zealand girl and had settled in Canberra after captaining the Canberra Raiders from 1983 to 1986. I had many chats with Ron Giteau, reminiscing the 'old days' and one day I mentioned the train episode. He remembered it and said no-one was more surprised at what happened that day then he was and the club later asked him to delay a goal kick if a train was in the vicinity as footballs were expensive!

John2480 (talk) 05:26, 30 November 2008 (UTC)