Menzie Yere

Menzie Yere
Personal information
Full name Emmanuel Yere
Born (1983-10-24) 24 October 1983
Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea
Height 173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 13 st 1 lb (83 kg)
Playing information
Position Centre

Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2009– Sheffield Eagles 279 191 0 0 764
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2008–13 Papua New Guinea 15 9 0 0 36
As of 22 July 2018
Source: [1][2]

Emmanuel Menzie Yere (born 24 October 1983) is a rugby league footballer who plays for the Sheffield Eagles in the Betfred Championship. He is a Papua New Guinea international. He is also Sheffield's all-time leading try scorer.

Club career

Yere was signed by Sheffield Eagles in 2008 following some impressive performances for his country at the Rugby League World Cup.[3]

In 2010, the club discovered that Yere had been buying kit (particularly boots) and taking unwanted kit to send back to his home country, where kit shortage is a problem. With Yere's support they set up Kits2Kids, a charity that collects kit from companies, clubs, schools and individuals and ships it to PNG.[4]

Yere is often known as "The Jukebox" because he has so many hits, referring to the large number of heavy tackles he makes in each game.

In 2013, he scored a club record 46 tries in one season,[5] comfortably beating the previous record of 35 tries set by Quentin Laulu-Togagae a year earlier. He also surpassed Daryl Powell's career total of 114 tries, making him the club's highest all-time try scorer. In April 2017 Menzie became one of few players to have played 250 games for the Eagles, by taking to the field in a 18-42 League win over Rochdale Hornets.

At the beginning of 2018, it became apparent Yere would have trouble starting the season for the Eagles. 'Visa issues' meant he could not be part of the playing squad until Gameweek 14. Subsequently, he missed the while first-half of the regular season. However, Yere's visa was finally clearedin May 2018 thus ending his longest spell without playing in his career.

Representative career

Yere played for PNG in the 2008 Rugby League World Cup, where he scored one try against Australia.[6]

Yere was named as part of the Papua New Guinea squad for the 2009 Pacific Cup.[7] Papua New Guinea won the tournament with Yere scoring two tries in each the semi-final and the final.[8][9]

He played for Papua New Guinea in the 2010 Four Nations tournament scoring two tries, taking his total representative tries to 9, the most for any PNG player.

Yere was selected by coach Adrian Lam as part of the train-on squad for the 2013 Rugby League World Cup.[10]

References

  1. ↑ loverugbyleague
  2. ↑ Rugby League Project
  3. ↑ "Sheffield sign up PNG star Yere". BBC Sport. 10 December 2008. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  4. ↑ http://www.kits2kids.com
  5. ↑ "Club Records". Sheffield Eagles RLFC. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "Wilshere handed Kumuls captaincy". BBC. 2008-10-14. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
  7. ↑ Kumuls named The National, 12 October 2009
  8. ↑ "PNG thrash Tonga to reach Pacific Cup Final". Daily Telegraph. 25 October 2009. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  9. ↑ "PNG seal 2010 Four Nations place". BBC Sport. 1 November 2009. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  10. ↑ http://www.rlwc2013.com/rugby-league-world-news/article/1123/lam-names-png-train-on-squad


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