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| Nickname | Dom, Nique | |||||
| Born | 7 July 1988 New Zealand |
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| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | |||||
| Weight | 89 kg (14 st 0 lb) | |||||
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| Position | Wing, Centre | |||||
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| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2011– | Gold Coast Titans | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2009–2010 | Cook Islands | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| As of 16 November 2011 | ||||||
| Source: rleague.com, RLP | ||||||
Dominique Peyroux (born 7 July 1988 in New Zealand) is a professional rugby league footballer currently dual-registered with the Tweed Heads Seagulls in the Queensland Cup via the Gold Coast Titans in the National Rugby League and Toyota Cup competitions in Australasia.[1] He primarily plays at centre but has been known to convert to the wings and the back-row. Despite never playing domestic first-grade football, Peyroux represented the Cook Islands at international level in the 2009 Pacific Cup.
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New Zealand born, Peyroux is of Samoan, Solomon Island, Cook Island and French descent.[2] Peyroux attended and played for the Sarah Redfern High School after moving to Australia with his family to pursue his rugby league career.Peyroux signed with the Sydney Roosters and then moved to Mattraville Sports High School in his final year of schooling, winning the AAC National Champions Trophy with the school in 2007.[3]
Peyroux signed professionally for the Sydney Roosters in 2007 but never featured for their first grade side, instead playing in the National Youth Competition in the Under 20 set-up.[4] He then featured for Sydney's feeder side, the Newtown Jets, in the New South Wales Cup for the 2008 season,[5] before returning to the NRL with the Gold Coast Titans. Similarly to his spell at the Roosters, Peyroux has featured more predominantly for the Under 20 team and has yet to make his first grade debut for the Titans.[4] In 2010, he was dual registered with Tweed Heads Seagulls, a feeder club to the Titans.
Peyroux was selected for the Cook Islands for their 2009 Pacific Cup competition in October 2009 and has featured against Samoa, in a 22-20 win to qualify for the group stages,[6] and against Fiji in another narrow win; 24-22 in which Peyroux, playing on the wing, scored twice, the second of which being the match-winning try in the final minute.[7][8][9] This win guided them to the final against Papua New Guinea on Sunday 1 November 2009. They lost this final by 42-14, a game in which Peyroux scored his third try in as many games in the tournament.[10]
Whilst playing for the Roosters in 2008, Peyroux featured in the Naked For A Cause initiative Gods of Football in which AFL and ARL players compiled a nude calendar to raise money for breast cancer charity the McGrath Foundation.[11][12]
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