| Birth Name: | Milton Lameski Thaiday | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 15 February 1980 | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Townsville, Queensland, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Height: | 178cm (70inches) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 78kg (172lb) | ||||||||||||||||
| Ru Position: | Fullback | ||||||||||||||||
| Super1: | NSW Waratahs | ||||||||||||||||
| Superyears1: | 2002–04 | ||||||||||||||||
| Superapps1: | 13 | ||||||||||||||||
| Superpoints1: | 20 | ||||||||||||||||
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Milton Thaiday (born 15 February 1980) is an Australian former Torres Strait Islander rugby league player for the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League competition.[1]
He is a cousin of Sam Thaiday of the Brisbane Broncos.[2] In the 2005 season he scored 7 tries in 14 appearances.[1]
Milton suffered a season-ending shoulder injury in round 5 and retired at the end of the 2007 season.
Thaiday played Super 14 Rugby for the New South Wales Waratahs, scoring a try when the Waratahs played the Pacific Islanders in June 2004.[3]
He began his professional career in rugby union[5] playing for the NSW Waratahs in Super 12 Rugby. He was discovered by rugby great Mark Ella while playing in a local competition at Lismore, northern NSW.