Joseph Tomane

Joseph Tomane
Personal information
Born 11 February 1990 (1990-02-11) (age 22)
Wellington, New Zealand
Height 190 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 111 kg (17 st 7 lb)
Playing information
Rugby league
Position Centre
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2008–09 Melbourne Storm 18 11 17 0 78
2010–11 Gold Coast Titans 14 9 0 0 36
Total 32 20 17 0 114
Rugby union
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2012 Brumbies
As of 26 July 2011
Source: RLP

Joseph Tomane (born 11 February 1990) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Gold Coast Titans of the National Rugby League competition. He plays as a utility back.

In Brisbane Tomane attended Marsden State High School alongside Israel Folau, Antonio Winterstein and Chris Sandow until his senior year[1] when he moved to Nudgee College in where he played rugby union, making the Australian Schoolboys side. Tomane played alongside James O'Connor at Nudgee and Australian Schoolboy level.

In only his 9th NRL game on the 7th of June 2009, playing against the Brisbane Broncos, Tomane scored 3 Tries and took on the goalkicking duties for the night to achieve 6 goals from 9 attempts, to bring his total points tally for the night to 24, half the Melbourne Storm's 48 total points for night to Brisbane Broncos' 4 points.

Tomane signed with the Gold Coast Titans on a 2 year deal starting from 2010. He is regarded as one of the best young guns in the NRL.With 6 tries in 10 appearance playing for the Gold Coast Titans in 2010.

He was selected in the Samoan train on squad in 2010 [2]

Rugby Union

It was announced on 27 June 2011 that Tomane was returning to rugby union as he had signed a two year deal with Australian Super Rugby side the Brumbies.[3]

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