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Flying 'rake' scores four
BRAD EARL
12jul06
FOR someone who was "skinny as a rake" as a child, Jarryd Hayne has made a sensational start to his NRL career at only 18.
"I look at photos from three years ago I just used to be so skinny," Hayne said. "It was pretty funny my calfs were as big as my thighs."
The winger scored four tries in the second half of Parramatta's 46-12 win against the Newcastle Knights last Saturday.
The last time he scored four was in Premier League against the Bulldogs in round 10.
After that Brian Smith quit as Eels coach, Jason Taylor took over and it will go down in history that the first player he promoted was Hayne.
His father is Manoa Thompson, a Fijian who played with South Sydney and the Warriors, and later in England and France.
Hayne grew up in the Campbelltown area and ended up in Parramatta's system only after his junior club tried to stop him playing up a year.
"The club I was at, they didn't want me to play up an age again," Hayne said.
"One of the boys I grew up with was playing at Cabramatta, so I just went with him."
Hayne's athleticism becomes apparent when you look at his second sport as a child, little athletics as shown by our photo of him doing high jump in February 2002.
He says he wasn't that good at first but then did well at a different event every year long jump, triple jump and high jump, in which he made the state titles.
In his last year of little As, under-15s, he tried hurdles with a "weird" style he had seen a girl do.
"Six months later I was at nationals, won a gold medal, and I went to the All Schools (national championships) and got a bronze," he said.
"My mum (Jodie Hayne) used to be a hurdler. She tried to get me into hurdles and I'd say, 'Mum, I can't hurdle'. Then I saw this technique and I really excelled at it."
At the same time, his league career was taking off in the Eels' Harold Matthews side.
http://www.parramattaadvertiser.com.au/common/story_page/0,7168,19755196%255E36457,00.html
BRAD EARL
12jul06
FOR someone who was "skinny as a rake" as a child, Jarryd Hayne has made a sensational start to his NRL career at only 18.
"I look at photos from three years ago I just used to be so skinny," Hayne said. "It was pretty funny my calfs were as big as my thighs."
The winger scored four tries in the second half of Parramatta's 46-12 win against the Newcastle Knights last Saturday.
The last time he scored four was in Premier League against the Bulldogs in round 10.
After that Brian Smith quit as Eels coach, Jason Taylor took over and it will go down in history that the first player he promoted was Hayne.
His father is Manoa Thompson, a Fijian who played with South Sydney and the Warriors, and later in England and France.
Hayne grew up in the Campbelltown area and ended up in Parramatta's system only after his junior club tried to stop him playing up a year.
"The club I was at, they didn't want me to play up an age again," Hayne said.
"One of the boys I grew up with was playing at Cabramatta, so I just went with him."
Hayne's athleticism becomes apparent when you look at his second sport as a child, little athletics as shown by our photo of him doing high jump in February 2002.
He says he wasn't that good at first but then did well at a different event every year long jump, triple jump and high jump, in which he made the state titles.
In his last year of little As, under-15s, he tried hurdles with a "weird" style he had seen a girl do.
"Six months later I was at nationals, won a gold medal, and I went to the All Schools (national championships) and got a bronze," he said.
"My mum (Jodie Hayne) used to be a hurdler. She tried to get me into hurdles and I'd say, 'Mum, I can't hurdle'. Then I saw this technique and I really excelled at it."
At the same time, his league career was taking off in the Eels' Harold Matthews side.
http://www.parramattaadvertiser.com.au/common/story_page/0,7168,19755196%255E36457,00.html
