I don't think the Cowboys will sign Thaiday any time soon . Mum has spoken !!!:lol:
Julie gears up for Thaiday night footy
TOWNSVILLE BULLETIN | August 4th, 2010
THIS Friday night, Julie Thaiday will be at Dairy Farmers Stadium cheering the visiting team against the North Queensland Cowboys.
Not because her son Sam will be playing for the opposition Brisbane Broncos, you understand. No, Julie will be booing and jeering the Cowboys because that's what she does at every home game ... and pays handsomely for the right.
"I kinda got brushed by the Cowboys," Sam Thaiday told Rugby League Week.
"That's why mum's always been filthy at the Cowboys. I think she's a season member up there at Townsville but she goes for every other team that comes to play there, just to rub it in their (face).
"That's why mum really doesn't want me to go home. They didn't want to sign me then, she had to let me go when I was 17 to come down here. That's why she doesn't want me to come back now."
Recent reports have suggested Thaiday is about to do just that; that he will be sacrificed at Red Hill to accommodate Greg Inglis and will be wearing blue, white and silver before you know it.
Previously, the Indigenous All Stars second rower has dismissed that possibility out-of-hand. Now, he says: "I think they're interested in me going up there but I haven't talked to anyone else at the moment except for the Broncos.
"I don't know if they (North Queensland) have spoken to my manager or not but I've told my manager for the time being, I want to talk to the Broncs first and that's my first priority."
Certainly, it will take a lot to convince Julie that the club which indirectly robbed her of her teenage son is now worthy of his services.
"I did one training camp with them once and there were a few scholarships up for grabs ... but I never really got offered one," Sam recalls.
"I remember Murray Hurst was there when I was a little bit younger and he showed a bit of interest in me but he was never there long enough.
"By the time I was playing some good football in Townsville, Murray Hurst was on his way out."
For now, however, it's all about getting the Broncos back into the top eight and keeping them there. Not so long ago, walking on the moon would have seemed more straightforward.
"One to 17 every week was busting their butt but through a little bit of a lack of experience with a lot of young kids in the side, it was hard to really grind out those wins," Thaiday says. "But that tough period, when we look back now, was pretty good for the team. We were able to blood a lot of players, some new young talent, and we found some good little players in there that in previous years may not have been in the side even."
Thaiday predicts Matt Gillett will be Brisbane's rookie of the year but wants to be around to see Ben Hunt, Josh Hoffman Corey Norman and the rest come of age, too.
"In a perfect world, I'd love to stay in Brisbane until I retire," he says.
"I'd love to captain the side. I'd love to win more premierships. I'd love to do a lot of things here in Brisbane still."
Just what mum wants to hear.
Read the full Thaiday interview in the latest edition of Rugby League Week
