| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | June 11, 1968 | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Height | 188cm | |||||
| Weight | 95 kg | |||||
| Position | Centre | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1987–1993 | South Sydney | 61 | 29 | 0 | 2 | 118 |
| 1994 | Western Suburbs | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | Auckland Warriors | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995–1996 | Warrington Wolves | |||||
| 2000 | AS Carcassonne | |||||
| Total | 75 | 29 | 0 | 2 | 118 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1996 | Fiji | |||||
| Source: RLP | ||||||
Manoa Thompson is a former professional rugby league player who represented Fiji. He is the father of Jarryd Hayne.
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Thompson started his career with the South Sydney Rabbitohs, playing 61 first grade games for the club between 1987 and 1993. He spent 1994 with the Western Suburbs Magpies, playing in only seven matches. In 1995 he was part of the inaugural squad for the new Auckland Warriors franchise. However he again only played in seven matches and was not retained for the 1996 season.
In November 1995 Thompson signed with English club Warrington.[1]
He later played for French sides; AS Saint Estève and AS Carcassonne.[2]
Thompson represented Fiji in 1996.
Thompson is the father of NSW, Fiji and Australian representative Jarryd Hayne. Currently, he works as a delivery driver.[3] He is still involved in rugby league, sitting on the Australian Fiji rugby league board[4] and helping to coach that organisations youth sides.[5]
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