Matthew Gidley

Matthew Gidley
Matt Gidley
Matt Gidley.jpg
Gidley while playing for St Helens in 2007
Personal information
Full name Matthew Gidley
Born 1 July 1977 (1977-07-01) (age 34)
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
Height 186 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 94 kg (14 st 11 lb)
Position Centre
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1996–06 Newcastle Knights 221 68 0 1 273
2007–10 St. Helens 105 40 6 0 172
Total 326 108 6 1 445
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1999–04 Australia 15 7 0 0 28
2000–04 New South Wales 11 5 0 0 20
2005 Country Origin 1 0 0 0 0
Source: NRL Stats and Rugby League Project

Matthew "Matt" Gidley (born 1 July 1977) is an Australian rugby league administrator and retired professional footballer. Born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Gidley represented New South Wales and Australia. He is the currently CEO of Football Operations at the Newcastle Knights. He played the majority of his career at Newcastle, winning a premiership in 2001, before playing four seasons for St. Helens in the European Super League competition. Matt is the older brother of Newcastle Knights fullback and captain Kurt Gidley.

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Playing career

While attending Glendale High School, Gidley played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 1995.[1]

Newcastle

Gidley had played all his junior football in the five-eighth position, however with Matthew Johns taking up the position in the Knights line up, he slotted in to right centre.[citation needed]

Gidley has won one NRL Premiership with Knights, in 2001 (defeating Parramatta Eels 30–24). At the end of the 2001 NRL season, he went on the 2001 Kangaroo tour.

Gidley became famous for his wing/centre combination with former Knight Timana Tahu. A common play was for the ball to be sent out to the right side of the field where Gidley would run, draw one or two players in before doing the famous Gidley flick pass to Tahu or placing a grubber kick down the line. This play was used at both club and representative level.

2006 saw a rejuvenation of sorts for Gidley seeing him recapture some of his old magic flick pass play with Knights winger Brian Carney. In 2006 Gidley retired from representative football, aiming to focus on playing well at club level. This move was questionable as it was right before the annual City vs Country Origin clash, where many thought Gidley was going to make the Country side in the centre position.

He became only the 4th Newcastle Knight to play more than 200 career games.

St Helens

Gidley joined English club St. Helens in Europe's Super League as a replacement for Jamie Lyon in 2007 when Lyon returned to Australia with the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles. His first match for the English club was their victory in the 2007 World Club Challenge over the Brisbane Broncos.

Gidley was named in the Super League Dream Team for the 2008 season.[2]

He played in the 2008 Super League Grand Final defeat to the Leeds Rhinos.[3]

He then put pen to paper on a one-year contract to keep him at Knowsley Road for 2010.[4]

Statistics

  • State Of Origin: Played 11 games in total for New South Wales
  • International: Played 11 tests for Australia

Administration career

In 2011 Gidley returned to the Newcastle Knights as the Business Development Manager before being appointed the CEO of Football Operations in June 2011 by the new owners, Hunter Sports Group.[5]

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