Sonny Whakarau

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Sonny Whakarau
Personal information
Born 1965/1966 (age 57–58)
Playing information
Position Hooker, Prop, Second-row
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
19??–1985 Unknown (MRL)
Upper Hutt
1990–1991 Batley
1991–1992 Bramley
1994–1995 Doncaster
1995–1996 Sheffield Eagles
1996 Keighley Cougars
1996–1998 Wakefield Trinity
Total 0 0 0 0 0
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
19??–1986 Manawatu
1986–19?? Wellington
1996–2004 New Zealand Māori
Source: RLP

Sonny Whakarau is a former New Zealand rugby league footballer who played professionally in England and represented the New Zealand Māori.

Playing career

A Manawatu representative, Whakarau moved south in 1986, joining the Wellington Rugby League and becoming a Wellington representative.

In the 1994/1995 English season Whakarau joined Doncaster and helped them win promotion to the First Division.[1] Sheffield Eagles in 1995/96 season.[2] He played for the Keighley Cougars in 1996.[3] Later in the season he was loaned to the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats.[4]

He played for the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats in 1998.[5]

Whakarau then returned home and played for the Levin Knights and Manawatu. In 2000 he was appointed player-coach of the Manawatu team but handed the coaching reigns over to former coach Paul Sixtus after one game.[6] He was then appointed the Manawatu Rugby League development officer in 2001.

In 2002 the Central Falcons were admitted to the Bartercard Cup and Whakarau became a regular in the side, playing close to 50 games over the next three seasons until his retirement from representative football at the end of the 2005 season.[7]

In 2004 Whakarau played for the Levin Lions in the Western Alliance club competition.[8]

Representative career

Whakarau represented New Zealand Māori at the 1996 Pacific Cup and then played in their defeated of Papua New Guinea and Great Britain the same year.[3][9]

Whakarau was again selected for the 2004 Pacific Cup squad.[10][11][12]

References

  1. ↑ 'It was like hearing someone had died' The Independent, 1 January 1995
  2. ↑ Centenary waits for the revolution The Independent, 18 August 1995
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Bulls in Wembley charge; Bradford 30, Wakefield 18 The Mirror, 26 February 1996
  5. ↑ No regrets: Defiant Leigh back decision to move up The Bolton News, 9 March 1998
  6. ↑ Job comes first The Evening Standard, 28 February 2001
  7. ↑ Whakarau calls it a day with Central Falcons The Evening Standard, 17 August 2005
  8. ↑ Western Alliance First Round Review rleague.com, 11 March 2004
  9. ↑ Morley given immediate chance to atone The Independent, 21 October 1996
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ Pacific Cup tourney to be Whakarau's swansong The Evening Standard, 13 October 2004
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