[49], On 1 August 2018, Meninga was announced as one of The Immortals, along with Norm Provan, Frank Burge, Dave Brown and Dally Messenger. As he also had scored a try at Wembley, Meninga joined legendary Australian winger Ken Irvine (1963), and unlikely try scorer, Queensland and Canberra Prop Sam Backo (1988) as the only Australian's to score a try in each test of an Ashes series. After Canberra failed to make the finals of the 2001 NRL season, finishing fourth-last (11th out of 14 teams), Matthew Elliott replaced Meninga as the Raiders coach. As a coach, he began with the Canberra Raiders, before coaching Queensland to nine State of Origin titles between 2006 and 2015.
Son of Australian rugby league coach Mal Meninga passed out drunk and had to be rescued from a TOILET at the Hong Kong Sevens - by a team of firefighters using … Former teammate and coach of the London Broncos, Gary Grienke was hopeful of bringing Meninga to his club for a swansong season,[19] but this did not eventuate. During 1994, Meninga played his final test on Australian soil when he led the Kangaroos to a record 58–0 win over France in a one-off test at Sydney's Parramatta Stadium in front of an almost packed house of 27,318. After playing in the centres for the first two test wins over the Kiwis, Meninga was moved to the second-row for the third test in Auckland with great effect as he scored a try and kicked one goal to add to his 5 goals in the first test and 2 in the second. Meninga would score the opening try of the Kangaroo Tour in the first game against his old club St Helens at Knowsley Road. [41][42], In February 2008, Meninga was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the NRL and ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia. He is expected to be subject to regular drug and alcohol tests after booze was found to be a factor in his horrific attack on 19-year-old Cheree, who was struck repeatedly with a tree branch. Most points scored in Test matches for Australia (272 – 21 tries, 96 goals) – since surpassed by, Most goals kicked in Test matches for Australia (96) – since surpassed by Johnathan Thurston, Most goals kicked in a State of Origin match for Queensland (7 in Game 1 1980) – since surpassed by Johnathan Thurston, Most State of Origins won as coach in a row. . He is also the only player to captain two Kangaroo Tours, in 1990 and 1994. Current Australian coach Mal Meninga's son Josh attended the event in a corporate suite and was only discovered once concerned friends noticed that he hadn't returned to his seat after using the men's room, Axe wielding firefighters were called into to break down the door to gain access to the passed out 28-year-old, It is not the first time that the Meninga family have got into trouble with alcohol, Mal was infamously kicked out of a Brisbane bar in 2013 after going behind the bar to retrieve a drink. Meninga, of South Sea Island heritage, was born in Bundaberg, Queensland. Mal then went on to score another try in the third and deciding test as Australia won 14–0 and retained The Ashes they had held since 1974. The Canberra Raiders' player of the year receives the Mal Meninga Medal in his honour since 2008 and a statue of him has been placed behind the Mal Meninga grandstand next to the one of Laurie Daley. Later that year he played in the Magpies' BRL Premiership grand final loss, scoring a try and kicking 3 goals as the Magpies went down to Norths 17–15. [citation needed], Meninga is regarded as an official spokesperson for the South Sea Islander community. Under his parole conditions, the 42-year-old must not live in the Sunshine Coast region and will undergo regular drug and alcohol tests. I'm buggered, I'm sorry, I have to resign. Australia won the test series 2–1 against the Kiwis with Meninga in the centres for each test, but on a tour that had seen the NSW vs Qld rivalry come into play in an Australian team, New Zealand won the dead rubber 3rd test at Carlaw Park in Auckland 18–0. With only a couple of minutes remaining and the scores locked at 10 all, his Raiders teammate Ricky Stuart raced through a gap in the tired Lions defence and sprinted 70 metres upfield. On an unseasonably warm day, Meninga's lack of match fitness since his return told (he had only played 60 minutes of the Preliminary final win over Eastern Suburbs the week before) and he was finally replaced by Raiders reserve back Kevin Walters midway through the second half. Mal's size, strength, and at that stage of his career his speed (in the early 1980s he was once reportedly timed at 11.9 seconds over 100 metres[citation needed]) saw him wreak havoc with the weaker English club side defences, as well as the Lions test side. A second broken arm before the start of the 1988 NSWRL season saw Meninga missing until Round 15. [43][44] Meninga went on to be named as one of the centres, along with Reg Gasnier, in Australian rugby league's Team of the Century. Following his retirement Mal Meninga openly supported the Super League concept during the Super League war of the mid-1990s. Halfback Ricky Stuart badly broke and dislocated his right ankle in the second half and despite a club record 68–0 win, without their halfback and chief play maker, the Raiders fell apart.
In the coming weeks the Sydney Morning Herald, in conjunction with Wide World of Sports and NRL.com, will unveil the greatest Origin teams of the past 40 years voted by Nine's commentators. He was selected to play for Brisbane in the 1979 Amco Cup, kicking a goal in the final which was lost to the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks. It is believed to be a condition of his parole that he not live on the Sunshine Coast, where his victim’s family lives. According to BBC commentators Ray French and former Great Britain halfback Alex Murphy, the Lions players simply could not handle the 'Manu Mountain' Meninga. Despite suffering a broken arm in a sickening collision with the goal posts in the Raider's Round 10 match with Manly-Warringah at the Raiders then home ground Seiffert Oval and subsequently missing 10 weeks (including Queensland's successful 1987 State of Origin series and the one-off test loss against New Zealand), Meninga returned to play in Canberra's 18–8 loss to Manly in that year's Grand Final at the SCG, the last ever Grand Final to be held at the ground. This was the third consecutive opponent of Meninga in State of Origin coaching to have been a teammate of the 1990 Winfield Cup Grand Final-winning Canberra side. He trained with Wayne Bennett's Maroons on Friday and declared both his head, and troublesome knee, will be ready for Game 1 against the NSW Blues in Adelaide on Wednesday night. Meninga is the only player in history to be selected for four Kangaroo Tours. Sorry we couldn't find a match for that, please try again, TITLE: Meninga said today Bevan was still coming to terms with his release. The 1991 murder shocked the Sunshine Coast community when the young woman’s mutilated body was found in dense parkland at Alexandra Headland. OVERNIGHT: BEVAN Meninga is a free man today after serving almost 22 years for the savage murder of Cheree Richardson on the Sunshine Coast. After just 4 games back for the Raiders, Meninga played for Australia in their record 70–8 win over Papua New Guinea at Wagga Wagga in country NSW, scoring two tries. [citation needed] His third also saw him miss a place in Australia's 25–12 win over New Zealand in the World Cup Final at Eden Park in Auckland at the end of the 1988 season. The State of Origin series is the only trophy Mal Meninga would not win as a team captain. In 2010, Meninga coached Queensland to a fifth straight series win, and is now regarded as the greatest and most successful Origin coach in history. Meninga continued his good form for Souths in 1985, playing in their 10–8 Grand Final win over Wynnum-Manly. The Maroons, however, still scored more points than the Blues across all three matches.[31]. “Christian Welch, Felise Kaufusi, Paps (Ryan Papenhuyzen) and Dale (Finucane), they were all pretty happy to go in (to Origin camp),” Cooper Johns told SEN’s Morning Glory with Matty Johns on Friday. All we can is be around and make sure he is well looked after and doing all the right things. When it all occurred it was a difficult time for the family. She is understood to have moved from the Sunshine Coast to help her son after his release from a low-security prison farm at Rathdowney. Cameron Munster’s desperate bid to delay his entry into the Queensland Maroons’ bubble is officially part of rugby league folklore after a Melbourne Storm team-mate confirmed the star five-eighth's daring phone call to Mal Meninga. [45][46], In June 2008, he was chosen in the Queensland Rugby League's Team of the Century at centre.
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