League is a team game.You win as a team and you lose as a team. To put the blame for us falling short squarely on Reyno is just blatantly wrong.
Couldn't agree more!! In the past three years, there's no way we'd even make those Prelims without Reyno.
From the Daily Mail, a massive well done to Cam and his partner. What great people they are and I'm so glad we have him at our club. Souch a touching gesture, all class.
A young woman with a 'fighting spirit' won't live to see her 21st birthday after overcoming a teenage meth addiction, homelessness and ovarian cancer.
Hayley Smith wound up on the streets when she was 15 after running away from her western Sydney home and developing a meth addiction.
The now-20-year-old learned on Monday that she has just days to live after an initial diagnosis said she wouldn't survive beyond her 21st birthday in July.
Her family are grieving the impending loss and struggling to come to terms with the fact that they'd only 'just got their girl back' when she was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2019.
She'd finished a stint in rehab for a drug and alcohol dependency which was topped off by meeting then-up-and-coming South Sydney Rabbitohs star Cam Murray after a match in 2018.
After completing her treatment, Hayley moved into her own home, re-enrolled in school and was determined to become a better person.
Her brother Nathan Sproule told Daily Mail Australia that Hayley spoke very little about her time on the streets and in the grips of addiction.
She couch surfed, got into street fights and was using meth and marijuana regularly, but other than that, Hayley will likely take the knowledge of what she went through with her to the grave.
While taking classes at school, Hayley worked on weekends and nights to support herself and had 'completely turned her life around' in the lead up to her diagnosis.
Hayley was competing in a school cross country competition when she collapsed suddenly. She was rushed to hospital where doctors discovered a cancerous cyst the size of a golf ball on her ovaries.
Surgeons removed one of Hayley's ovaries and she began chemotherapy shortly after.
'We'd only just got her back, and then we got the news that she had cancer,' her brother Nathan Sproule said.
Everyone took it really hard.'
Mr Sproule said even while undergoing chemotherapy, the then-teenager was determined to support herself and continued working, often needing to commute via two trains and a bus each and every day.
Hayley was declared cancer free later that year, but by April 2020 doctors discovered it had returned.
While the prognosis was stage four ovarian cancer, Hayley was determined to keep fighting and underwent a full hysterectomy in June that year.
Still, the cancer continued to get worse and doctors suggested a new bout of chemotherapy, which concluded in January 2021.
By early February, doctors informed Hayley and her family that chemotherapy did not work in reducing or erasing the cancer, and she was told nothing further could be done.
Initially doctors said she likely wouldn't make it to her 21st birthday in July 2021.
While receiving treatment, nurses in her ward learned of her obsession with NRL, and one of the staff who knew Murray personally let him know of Hayley's diagnosis.
Mr Sproule told Daily Mail Australia Murray then sent Hayley a text asking if he and his partner could visit her in hospital.
Hayley finished a stint in rehab for a drug and alcohol dependency which was topped off by meeting then-up-and-coming South Sydney Rabbitohs star Cam Murray after a match in 2018
'It wasn't through his club or anything like that, he just organised it on his own,' Mr Sproule explained.
'He showed up with his personal jersey and some hand cream and other gifts and a really nice message, and then they spent about two hours with Hayley just talking to her and cheering her up.'
After Murray left, several of his teammates, including Latrell Mitchell, Adam Reynolds and Dane Gagai sent Hayley video recorded messages sending their well wishes.
Mr Sproule said the effort the men put in meant the world to Hayley as she struggled to come to terms with her diagnosis.
On Monday, Hayley and her family learned that her condition had deteriorated. Doctors now think she has just days to live.
Mr Sproule had only just returned to his home in Western Australia after three weeks away from his pregnant fiancee and job.
Hayley's family are raising money to give her the funeral she wants and deserves. Hayley wants to be buried at a cemetery in Sydney's south-east
'My mum can't really take much more time off, neither can I. It's hard for her because if she doesn't work, she doesn't get paid. And she needs income still, too,' Mr Sproule explained.
'Hayley's coming to terms with the fact that she probably won't leave hospital again. Not now.'
The family are raising money on
GoFundMe to give Hayley the send off she deserves.
She has asked to be buried in a cemetery in south-east Sydney, and early estimates suggest the funeral will cost at least $25,000.
'After everything she's been through, it is really hard to hear,' Mr Sproule said.
'She still gets visits from her [drug and alcohol] counselors and they've been raising money to help us. They say she is a real success story from the program.'
