mates already miss mateo

[parra_jesus]

FELETI Mateo is determined to remind Parramatta powerbrokers what they are losing at season's end as the Eels continue their late-season surge.

• Christian Nicolussi
• From: The Daily Telegraph
• August 19, 2010 12:00AM

The blue and gold army are already bemoaning the fact that Mateo will be a Warrior in 2011, given that his form over the past month has been as good as superstar teammate Jarryd Hayne.

While Eels officials told Mateo they could not match his asking price because of salary cap restraints, the club has since tabled a $500,000-a-season deal for Wallaby Quade Cooper.

Parramatta junior Mateo was initially disappointed to be leaving but now only wants to focus on Wests Tigers in front of a packed house on Sunday and the drive towards the finals.

"What's done is done now, I'm not here next year so good luck to them," Mateo said as he returned from a four-day freshen-up yesterday.

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"I just want to concentrate on this year and hopefully win the title.

"It's always sweet to play good ... the fans are all that matter and they may ask, 'Why did you let him go?', so all you can do is play well and the rest takes care of itself."

He has been lethal in attack and his offloads will be watched by the Tigers.

Mateo's form was not lost on teammate Luke Burt, who said: "Feleti has been pretty awesome, and last Friday night [during the 30-14 win over Brisbane] he looked that hard to tackle."

In a welcome sight, winger Eric Grothe joined in his first skills session yesterday for the first time since he hobbled off during the round-15 Knights clash with a knee problem.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...iss-feleti-mateo/story-e6frexnr-1225906999448

 

[dazeely]

Whatever. Blah blah blah blah. 2-3 weeks of decent footy and the media thinks he's worth a squillion. Fmd. Feliti oozes potential and can turn it on but it's such a pity he didn't play more consistant footy. On the other hand horo seems to give his all each and every game and would be a third of the price.

Not worth the coin reportedly warriors are paying. Would prefer him in the blue and gold but can't have them all. Good luck to him.

 

[hineyrulz]

Of course his mates miss him, he has been missing most of this season.......

 

[oldmancraigy]

If he'd managed to 'turn it on' from round 1 then:

(a) we wouldn't be facing a must win game this week

and

(b) he wouldn't have to be "sending a message" to anyone as he would've got a nice contract here.


Frustrating player since he could be ANYTHING on his day, but off his day is just awful. $200k is probably more his value....

 

[Gronk]

Mateo is like the fat jilted girlfriend who had let herself go.. She loses weight and starts to look glam like she used to.

 

[Craig Johnston]

Mateo is like the fat jilted girlfriend who had let herself go.. She loses weight and starts to look glam like she used to.

well i must have had too many xxxx's at the game last weekend, coz he looked f**king stunning

 

[SCoops]

To hot and cold a player, Plays like a champion one game and then goes missing the next. It's been said in these forums for while now.

I have no issue with him going. What will p!ss me off more is if he decides to pick up his game at the Warriors and play constantly.

It just looks as though he is not keen to be here. It has been like it for some time.

Like Inu, awesome player on his day, but just look at his performance over last two years now, way to lazy.

Sorry to say this but.... "don't let the door hit you in the ar5e on the way out."

Coops

 

[SDM]

So sour grapes as a motivational tool? The Warriors will get value out of him, in his 3rd season after they fail to re-sign him.
On the news last night when he was having a cry, he looked as fat as ever, how can he carry so much at this time of the season?

 

[Parra Guru]

Get over yourself Feleti. Maybe if you listened to criticism and turned your game around earlier in the season, people would see you as a genuine loss.

Instead you sulked in the corner and started to take the p!ss in your playing style. And now you want regret from the club after 2 good games??

 

[Stagger eel]

the next 3 weeks will tell if he's a genuine marquee player or not...2 decent games in a row doesn't get you there.

 

[DeanPay98]

He'll be a loss. But its all been said before. What i don't get is how he's acting like we've done him wrong when he's the one who spends most of the season playing at half speed and being mentally absent.

For 850K at least Quade Cooper will perform for the entire season ... IF we sign him.

 

[Ike E Bear]

Mateo is such an enigma. Even against the Broncos, where he was given MOTM, for every three breaks he made, two of them ended with him throwing the ball staight to a Brisbane player. I was surprised he got the award actually.

 

[Stagger eel]

Mateo is such an enigma. Even against the Broncos, where he was given MOTM, for every three breaks he made, two of them ended with him throwing the ball staight to a Brisbane player. I was surprised he got the award actually.

yeah, despite that it was his best game for a while, he was extremely difficult to handle.

 

[spiderdan]

wow people are harsh.

the dude makes a couple of errors each game but that comes with the style of play. he tops our offloads (and yes, most of them are effective) and would be in the top 3 forwards for metres gained i reckon.

yes, he can get lethargic at the back end of games in his defence but that is no different (apart from being a ball player) to a couple of years ago when he was the only one sparking our attack and everyone kissed his now fat arse.

he should have been given more ball playing responsibility earlier in the year. had that happened i am sure mortimer would have looked better because then he would have been able to utilise his strengths better. apart from hayne there is no-one else in the team that can lead a player through a gap via pass or offlaod as well as mateo does.

next year you will see mateo carve up for the warriors on the left side.

~fin~​

 

[sooperdooper]

i like mateo as a player... but lets get serious here.
We know he can turn it on... we werent willing to compete with a reported 400k per season.
We wanted to keep him... not for that price.

However him being 'inconsistant' will have alot to do with the fact he was only playing like he was allowed to by his coach....

 

[spiderdan]

i like mateo as a player... but lets get serious here.
We know he can turn it on... we werent willing to compete with a reported 400k per season.
We wanted to keep him... not for that price.

However him being 'inconsistant' will have alot to do with the fact he was only playing like he was allowed to by his coach....

pretty sure it wouldn't have been anywhere near $400k we were competing with if the club acted in pre-season instead of pampering the mortimer clan. that offer from the warriors came well into the season.

 

[Ike E Bear]

I'm definitely a Mateo fan and hope he does well at the Warriors.

I think Ando tried to improve Mateo's game by helping him to learn to be more selective and generally play "tougher", but Feleti didn't really respond to it very well. It ended up stifling the positive parts of his game. And now he seems to have been given his freedom again, but the original problems are still there.

You could look at it both ways - Mateo was a poor student and with a better attitude could have been anything; or Ando was a poor teacher because he couldn't find a style of coaching that Feleti would respond to. Maybe it's genuinely a bit of both.

It's all academic now - we have 2010 with Mateo and that's it. We'll either be better, worse or the same without him ... only time will tell.

 

[DeanPay98]

I get what you're saying Ike, but I don't think that it can be said that Ando is a poor teacher when he's had the results he's had at several clubs. It might not have worked with Mateo but I think DA at least tried.

I hope Mateo has a great career with the Warriors. But if we get a quality halfback we won't miss Mateo.

 

[Gronk]

i like mateo as a player... but lets get serious here.
We know he can turn it on... we werent willing to compete with a reported 400k per season.
We wanted to keep him... not for that price.

However him being 'inconsistant' will have alot to do with the fact he was only playing like he was allowed to by his coach....

The coach likes him to be overweight, lazy and erratic ?

 

[H0WZAT]

People blaming DA for Mateo's horrendous season are grade A numpties. The bloke is a pea heart. Guaranteed at least 3 errors a match from poor ball control and stupid offloads. When he stayed down and had a cry against the Roosters it showed his character to a tee.