Menai Roosters

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Menai Roosters
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Club information
Full nameMenai Roosters Rugby League Football Club
Current details
Ground(s)
  • Akuna Oval
Competition CSDRFL
2015 A-Grade Reserve1st

The Menai Roosters Rugby League Football Club (also known as Menai District) is a rugby league football club that was formed in 1981 and competes in the Cronulla-Sutherland District Rugby Football League. The club is based out of Akuna Oval at Bangor where its clubhouse and headquarters are located and usually draws the large majority of its junior players from Menai and the surrounding suburbs of Bangor, Illawong, Alfords Point and Barden Ridge.

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The Menai club currently field teams from Under 6 age groups all the way up to A Grade.

Notable players

Player
Professional club(s)
Cameron Ciraldo Cronulla / Newcastle Knights / Penrith Panthers / Flag of Italy.svg Italy
Brent Grose Cronulla / Warrington
Luke Milton Sydney Roosters / NSW Waratahs / Australia national rugby sevens team / New York Rugby Club
Alejandro Don Fillipe Castro Martinez Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal

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