Billy Weepu

Billy Weepu is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Manly Sea Eagles. He is the brother of All Black Piri Weepu. Weepu started his career with the Wainuiomata Lions in the Wellington Rugby League competition. He was then scouted by Manly and joined the club in 1994. He went on to play 13 first grade games for the club in 1995 and 1997 as well as becoming a regular in reserve grade. He was regarded as one of the heaviest players to play in the Australian competition. Weepu played for both Wellington and Taranaki in the 1999 National Provincial Competition, becoming the subject of a NZRL appeal. Along with fellow Wellington prop, Tino Brown, Weepu was later ruled ineligible to play for the Taranaki...