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Rugby player
| Birth name | Milton Lameski Thaiday | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1980-02-15) 15 February 1980 (age 44) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Townsville, Queensland, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 78 kg (12 st 4 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable relative(s) | Sam Thaiday (cousin) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Fullback | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Milton Thaiday (born 15 February 1980) is an Australian former Torres Strait Islander rugby league player for the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League competition.
He is a cousin of Sam Thaiday of the Brisbane Broncos. In the 2005 season he scored 7 tries in 14 appearances.
Milton suffered a season-ending shoulder injury in round 5 and retired at the end of the 2007 season.
Rugby union career
Thaiday played Super 14 Rugby for the New South Wales Waratahs, scoring a try when the Waratahs played the Pacific Islanders in June 2004.
Career highlights
- Junior Club: Souths Townsville
- Career Stats: 2005–2007 Milton Thaiday played 29 games, scored 14 tries for a total of 56 points
He began his professional career in rugby union playing for the NSW Waratahs in Super 12 Rugby. He was discovered by rugby great Mark Ella while playing in a local competition at Lismore, northern NSW.
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 July 2009. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - Walter, Brad (8 May 2003). "Teenage Dragon gets his big chance, and some advice from Albert the great". The Sydney Morning Herald. Australia: Fairfax Media. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
- "Burke farewells Waratahs faithful". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 25 June 2004. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
- "Bowman roars with Lions". Townsville Bulletin. 18 April 2017.
- Milton Thaiday rugby union profile Scrum.com
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Australian rugby league players
- Australian rugby union players
- Central Charlestown Butcher Boys players
- Footballers who switched code
- Indigenous Australian rugby league players
- Indigenous Australian rugby union players
- New South Wales Waratahs players
- Newcastle Knights players
- Rugby league fullbacks
- Rugby league players from Townsville
- Rugby union players from Queensland
- 21st-century Australian sportsmen