Manoa Thompson
Encyclopedia
Manoa Thompson is a former professional rugby league
player who represented Fiji. He is the father of Jarryd Hayne
.
, playing 61 first grade games for the club between 1987 and 1993. He spent 1994 with the Western Suburbs Magpies
, playing in only seven matches. In 1995 he was part of the inaugural squad for the new Auckland Warriors franchise. However he again only played in seven matches and was not retained for the 1996 season.
In November 1995 Thompson signed with English club Warrington
.
He later played for French
sides; AS Saint Estève
and AS Carcassonne
.
. Currently, he works as a delivery driver. He is still involved in rugby league, sitting on the Australian Fiji rugby league board and helping to coach that organisations youth sides.
Rugby league
Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
player who represented Fiji. He is the father of Jarryd Hayne
Jarryd Hayne
Jarryd Lee Hayne is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Parramatta Eels of the NRL. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian, Fiji international representative winger and fullback, he has played his entire NRL career to date with Parramatta, with whom he got to the...
.
Playing career
Thompson started his career with the South Sydney RabbitohsSouth Sydney Rabbitohs
The South Sydney Rabbitohs are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Redfern, a suburb of South-central Sydney, New South Wales. They participate in the National Rugby League premiership and are one of nine existing teams from the state capital...
, playing 61 first grade games for the club between 1987 and 1993. He spent 1994 with the Western Suburbs Magpies
Western Suburbs Magpies
The Western Suburbs Magpies are an Australian rugby league football club based in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. Formed in 1908, Wests, as they are commonly referred to, were one of the nine foundation clubs of the first New South Wales Rugby League competition in Australia...
, playing in only seven matches. In 1995 he was part of the inaugural squad for the new Auckland Warriors franchise. However he again only played in seven matches and was not retained for the 1996 season.
In November 1995 Thompson signed with English club Warrington
Warrington Wolves
Warrington Wolves are a professional rugby league football club based in Warrington, England that competes in Super League. They play at the Halliwell Jones Stadium, having moved there from Wilderspool in 2003....
.
He later played for French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
sides; AS Saint Estève
AS Saint Estève
AS Saint Estève were a French rugby league team from Perpignan, in the Catalan Pyrénées-Orientales region of France. They were founded in 1965...
and AS Carcassonne
AS Carcassonne
AS Carcassonne are a professional rugby league football club based in Carcassonne in the south of France. They play in the French rugby league championship and are one of the most successful clubs in French rugby league, having won a total of ten French Championship titles and eleven Lord Derby Cups...
.
Later years
Thompson is the father of NSW, Fiji and Australian representative Jarryd HayneJarryd Hayne
Jarryd Lee Hayne is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Parramatta Eels of the NRL. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian, Fiji international representative winger and fullback, he has played his entire NRL career to date with Parramatta, with whom he got to the...
. Currently, he works as a delivery driver. He is still involved in rugby league, sitting on the Australian Fiji rugby league board and helping to coach that organisations youth sides.