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Birth name | Milton Lameski Thaiday | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 15 February 1980 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Townsville, Queensland, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 78 kg (12 st 4 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Notable relative(s) | Sam Thaiday (cousin) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Fullback | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Milton Thaiday (born 15 February 1980) is an Australian former Torres Strait Islander rugby league player for the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League competition. [1]
He is a cousin of Sam Thaiday of the Brisbane Broncos. [2] In the 2005 season he scored 7 tries in 14 appearances. [1]
Milton suffered a season-ending shoulder injury in round 5 and retired at the end of the 2007 season.[ citation needed ]
Thaiday played Super 14 Rugby for the New South Wales Waratahs, scoring a try when the Waratahs played the Pacific Islanders in June 2004. [3]
He began his professional career in rugby union [5] playing for the NSW Waratahs in Super 12 Rugby. He was discovered by rugby great Mark Ella while playing in a local competition at Lismore, northern NSW.
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