Tyrone Munro

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Tyrone Munro
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Personal information
Full nameTyrone Munro
Born (2004-12-26) 26 December 2004 (age 19)
Moree, New South Wales, Australia
Height187 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight85 kg (13 st 5 lb)
Playing information
Position Wing
Club
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
2023– South Sydney 530012
Source: [1]

Tyrone Munro or also known as Ty Ty (born 26 December 2004) is an Australian professional Rugby league player who plays as a winger for NRL club South Sydney Rabbitohs.

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Early life and family

Munro was born in Moree, New South Wales on 26 December 2004 and grew up in the Inner Sydney suburb of Glebe, New South Wales, Australia. He is the cousin of Canterbury Bulldogs winger Josh Addo-Carr. [2] Munro attended Alexandria Park Community School for his high school education and captained the NSW Combined High Schools Rugby League team while attending Endeavour Sports High School.

Playing career

Early career

While playing for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the Harold Matthews Cup, Munro won the Player of the Year award in 2021 and was also a proficient player for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the Jersey Flegg Cup. At the NSW Cup level, Munro achieved two try assists, four line-breaks, 156 average run metres and 10 tackle breaks in his only 3 games. [3] On 28 June 2023, Munro signed a three-year contact extension with the Rabbitohs until the end of the 2025 NRL season. [4]

NRL career

2023 NRL Premiership season

Munro made three appearances in the 2023 NRL season for the South Sydney Rabbitohs and scored three tries in his three games.

Munro made his NRL debut against the New Zealand Warriors in round 18 of the 2023 NRL season [5] . At Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand he was in the starting line-up for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, scoring one try and making two errors. South Sydney Rabbitohs won this game 6-28.

In his second game against the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs at Stadium Australia in round 19 of the 2023 NRL season on 8 July [6] , Munro was selected in the South Sydney starting line-up. In this game, he scored tries in the 18th and 76th minute; ran a line-break in the 18th, 73rd and the 77th minute, and made an errors in the 32nd minute. The result for this game was the Bulldogs winning, 32-36. [7]

In Munro's third and last game for South Sydney in the 2023 NRL season, he played against the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks at Optus Stadium [8] . This was in round 23 on 5 August. He was in the starting line-up. In this game he made errors in the 3rd, 13th, 39th, 72nd and the 77th minute. The final score for this match was 16-26, Cronulla's way. [9]

Munro was selected in fourth game against the St. George Illawarra Dragons, but he was selected as the 18th man and he didn't get a chance to play.

2024 NRL Premiership season

His first match for the Rabbitohs in 2024 NRL season occurred in Round 6 against the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks at Stadium Australia, Sydney [10] . He was selected to start this match. Munro only managed to play the first 19 minutes of the game before reaggravating a collarbone/shoulder injury [11] that kept him out for the previous 5 matches of the 2024 season. Souths lost this game 22-34.

Tyrone Munro's first NRL game after recovering from his collarbone injury was against the Newcastle Knights at Stadium Australia, Sydney on 24th August [12] . This game occurred in Round 24 of the 2024 NRL season. Munro was named in the starting line-up for this game. In this match, he made errors in 7th, 49th, 75th and 79th minutes of the game. The final result for this match was the Newcastle Knights winning 16-36.

Playing career outside NRL

2023

On 24 September 2023, Munro played for South Sydney Rabbitohs in their 2023 NSW Cup grand final victory over the North Sydney Bears [13] . Munro scored the winning try for Souths with less than five minutes remaining. [14]

On 1 October 2023, in the NRL State Championship, the Rabbitohs were versing the Brisbane Tigers at Stadium Australia, Sydney [15] .The final result was the Bunnies winning 42-22. [16] In this match, Tyrone Munro scored a hattrick, [17] by scoring tries in the 10th, 37th and the 55th minutes. Because of this performance, he won the player of the match.

Tyrone Munro's first match after recovering from his collarbone injury was against the Western Suburbs Magpies in Round 24 of the 2024 NSW Cup season on the 17th of August [18] . This match occurred in at Campbelltown Sports Stadium, Sydney. In this game, Munro scored tries in the 17th and 57th minute, achieved a line-break in the 57th minute and made an error in the 62nd minute. The Rabbitohs won this game 14-28.

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