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Emmanuel Menzie Yere (born 24 October 1983) is a Papua New Guinean former rugby league footballer who played for the Sheffield Eagles in the RFL Championship. He is a Papua New Guinea international. He is also Sheffield's all-time leading try scorer with 192 tries in 287 games.

Club career

Yere was signed by Sheffield Eagles in 2008 following some impressive performances for his country at the Rugby League World Cup.^[3]

Yere is often known as "The Jukebox" because he has so many hits, referring to the large number of heavy tackles he made.

In 2013, he scored a club record 46 tries in one season,^[4] comfortably beating the previous record of 35 tries set by Quentin Laulu-Togagae a year earlier. He also surpassed Daryl Powell's career total of 114 tries, making him the club's highest all-time try scorer. In April 2017 Menzie became one of few players to have played 250 games for the Eagles, by taking to the field in an 18-42 League win over Rochdale Hornets.

At the beginning of 2018, it became apparent Yere would have trouble starting the season for the Eagles. 'Visa issues' meant he could not be part of the playing squad until Gameweek 14. Subsequently, he missed the first half of the regular season. However, Yere's visa was finally cleared in May 2018 thus ending his longest spell without playing in his career.

Personal life

In 2010, his club discovered that Yere had been buying kit (particularly boots) and taking unwanted kit to send back to his home country, where kit shortage is a problem. With Yere's support they set up Kits2Kids, a charity that collects kit from companies, clubs, schools and individuals and ships it to PNG.^[5]

After his final season with the Eagles it became apparent that Yere was going to struggle to gain British citizenship based on the cost of application. Therefore, the Sheffield Eagles' Supporters Trust began a campaign to raise the sufficient funds for the Yere's to stay in the country. They managed to raise £5,000 in five days.^[6]

Representative career

Yere played for PNG in the 2008 Rugby League World Cup, where he scored one try against Australia.^[7]

Yere was named as part of the Papua New Guinea squad for the 2009 Pacific Cup.^[8] Papua New Guinea won the tournament with Yere scoring two tries in each the semi-final and the final.^[9]^[10]

He played for Papua New Guinea in the 2010 Four Nations tournament scoring two tries, taking his total representative tries to 9, the most for any PNG player.

Yere was selected by coach Adrian Lam as part of the train-on squad for the 2013 Rugby League World Cup.^[11]

References

1. ^loverugbyleague
2. ^Rugby League Project
3. ^{{cite web|title=Sheffield sign up PNG star Yere|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_league/7775765.stm|website=BBC Sport|accessdate=5 August 2014|date=10 December 2008}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Club Records|url=http://www.sheffieldeagles.com/Page/Content/2038|publisher=Sheffield Eagles RLFC|accessdate=5 August 2014}}
5. ^http://www.kits2kids.com
6. ^{{cite web|title=Menzie Yere- JustGiving|url=https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/menzieyere|publisher=JustGiving.com|accessdate=8 November 2018}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_league/7669326.stm|title=Wilshere handed Kumuls captaincy|publisher=BBC|date=2008-10-14|accessdate=2008-10-14}}
8. ^Kumuls named The National, 12 October 2009
9. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/png-thrash-tonga-to-reach-pacific-cup-final/news-story/528ed4df2f6a347e3f82b8bc50348bab|title=PNG thrash Tonga to reach Pacific Cup Final|work=Daily Telegraph|date=25 October 2009|accessdate=11 December 2016}}
10. ^{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_league/8336567.stm|title=PNG seal 2010 Four Nations place|work=BBC Sport|date=1 November 2009|accessdate=11 December 2016}}
11. ^http://www.rlwc2013.com/rugby-league-world-news/article/1123/lam-names-png-train-on-squad

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