Timana Tahu

Timana Tahu

Tahu playing for the Knights in 2012.
Personal information
Born	(1980-10-16) 16 October 1980 (age 36) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Playing information
Height	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	98 kg (15 st 6 lb)
Rugby league
Position	Centre, Wing, Second-row
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 1999–04 Newcastle Knights 97 82 2 0 332 2005–07 Parramatta Eels 46 20 0 0 80 2010 Parramatta Eels 17 5 0 0 20 2011 Penrith Panthers 7 3 0 0 12 2012–14 Newcastle Knights 29 11 0 0 44 Total 196 121 2 0 488 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 2001–10 NSW Country 4 3 0 0 12 2002–10 New South Wales 12 8 0 0 32 2002–06 Australia 5 5 0 0 20 2010 New Zealand Māori 1 0 0 0 0 2013 Indigenous All Stars 1 0 0 0 0
Rugby union
Position	Centre
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 2008–09 NSW Waratahs 20 3 0 0 15 2016 Denver Stampede 11 0 0 0 0 Total 31 3 0 0 15 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 2008–09 Australia 4 0 0 0 0 2008 Australia A 5 4 0 0 20
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Timana James Aporo Tahu (born 16 October 1980) is an Australian professional rugby league and rugby union footballer. He currently plays for Denver Stampede in the US PRO Rugby competition. A dual-code international representative three-quarter back for Australia's Kangaroos and then the Wallabies, he could also play second-row and played for New South Wales in State of Origin. Tahu started his career in the National Rugby League for the Newcastle Knights, with whom he won the 2001 NRL Premiership before moving to the Parramatta Eels. He then played for the New South Wales Waratahs in the Super Rugby competition. Tahu returned to the NRL with the Eels and then the Penrith Panthers before finishing his NRL career where it started with the Newcastle Knights.

Tahu was born in Melbourne of a New Zealand Māori father and an Australian Aboriginal mother, as a result he was eligible for both the New Zealand Kiwis and Australian Kangaroos. He grew up in St Kilda before moving with his mother to Bourke in western New South Wales at the age of 12. From there he went on to live in towns including Wilcannia, Grafton and Byron Bay.