Jayson Bukuya

Jayson Bukuya
Bukuya at the 2008 RLWC
Personal information
Born (1989-04-21) 21 April 1989
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 103 kg (16 st 3 lb)
Playing information
Position Second-row, Lock, Prop

Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2008–13 Cronulla Sharks 59 13 0 0 52
2014 New Zealand Warriors 18 2 0 0 8
2015– Cronulla Sharks 85 10 0 0 40
Total 162 25 0 0 100
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2008–15 Fiji 10 3 0 0 12
As of 4 March 2018
Source: [1]

Jayson Bukuya (born 21 April 1989) is a Fijian international rugby league footballer who plays for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League. He plays as a lock or in the second-row. Bukuya was part of the Cronulla team that won their maiden premiership title in the 2016 season.

Background

Bukuya was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Bukuya is of Indian-Fijian descent.

He attended Sandgate District State High School, he was also a Aspley and Norths Brisbane junior [2].

Playing career

2008-13

Bukuya made his National Rugby League debut for the Cronulla Sharks in 2008. Bukuya played all 4 games for Fiji at the 2008 World Cup, and was again named in the Fiji squad for the 2013 Rugby League World Cup.[3] During his first stint with the Sharks, Bukuya played in 59 NRL games, and scored 13 tries.

2014

He joined the New Zealand Warriors for the 2014 season. He finished off the year playing 18 NRL games and scoring 2 tries. On 1 November 2014, Bukuya was released from his Warriors' contract on compassionate grounds to return to Sydney.[4]

2015-present

On 11 November 2014, Bukuya signed a two-year deal to rejoin the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks.[5] In 2016, he was a part of the Sharks maiden premiership winning grand final team.[6] In 2017, Bakuya was part of the Cronulla side which qualified for the finals but were eliminated in week one after suffering a shock defeat to North Queensland 15-14. In 2018, Bakuya made 21 appearances for Cronulla as the club reached the preliminary final before being defeated by Melbourne 22-6.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ Jason Bukuya Rugby League Project
  2. ↑ http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/cronulla-forward-jayson-bukuya-in-frame-for-queensland-emerging-origin-spot/news-story/3894ce5a5093f35d5db0a4f56956203c?sv=5bc9d9060e90628d9f7c9cfa4f2593a0
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2015-12-26.
  4. ↑ Media, NRL Digital. "Vodafone Warriors sign Thompson".
  5. ↑ "Bukuya returns to Sharks on two-year deal". NRL - The official site of the National Rugby League - NRL.com.
  6. ↑ https://www.nrl.com/news/2016/10/02/2016-grand-final-sharks-player-ratings/
  7. ↑ https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/melbourne-storm-cronulla-sharks-nrl-finals-live-blog-video-highlights/322aa602-8563-4081-97af-5691ce074d53
  8. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2017/sep/10/cronulla-sharks-v-north-queensland-cowboys-nrl-elimination-final-live
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