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Player Haizyn Mellars
- Thread starter WahsaurusRex
- Start date
- Date of Birth
- May 5, 2004
- Birth Location
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Nationality
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand
- Height (cm)
- 193 cm
- Weight (kg)
- 100 kg
- Position/s
- Winger
- Warriors Years Active
- 2026
- 2027
- 2028
- College/s
- Marsden State High School, Logan
- Signed From
- South Sydney Rabbitohs
- Junior Club/s
- Gladstone Valley Diehards
- Current Club
- South Sydney Rabbitohs
- Status
- Active
- Rugby League Project
- https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/haizyn-mellars/summary.html
next year for 3 years
High risk, high reward strategy, getting lots of injury prone talent and hoping enough of them can reach their potential.Webby/Cappy going about our squad re-shaping, patiently and quietly.
As fans we will have to get used to more frustrating Berry/ Metcalf type disruption but hopefully enough push on to build a champion squad.
Was he a highly touted junior though?
Seems like Linnane is.
Seems like Linnane is.
Im not too sure how touted he was, but a lot of the bunnies supporters do reckon he would be knocking on the door if he stayed healthy.
if he strings a nice pre season together and gets solid cup games he could be knocking on the door in particular with rog and dals innury
I get he as locked in for top 30 this year by the bunnies, but was that good from the rabbitoes, time will tell I guess.
Love this interview from Mellars
www.warriors.kiwi
Mellars: Coming home was a big factor, lots of connections here
Coming to the club where his father played a big factor in Haizyn Mellars signing with Warriors.
www.warriors.kiwi
The young man has a great attitude! Would love to see him get a debut this year.Love this interview from Mellars
Mellars: Coming home was a big factor, lots of connections here
Coming to the club where his father played a big factor in Haizyn Mellars signing with Warriors.
roguei
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Only took about 3-4 days. I wish the media team would publish the interviews for the public closer to when it is done. Not a huge fan of reading peoples interpretation of the interview when the horses mouth is right there.Love this interview from Mellars
Mellars: Coming home was a big factor, lots of connections here
Coming to the club where his father played a big factor in Haizyn Mellars signing with Warriors.
Ignore all this old news. Just posting for prosperity...
Tue 28 Jun 2022, 03:28 PM
The South Sydney Rabbitohs are pleased to announce the signing and extension of contracts for eight up-and-coming stars including Queensland U19s State of Origin player Jye Gray (2023-24), Haizyn Mellars (2023-25), Liam Le Blanc (2023-24) and TJ Herring (2023-24), as well as South Sydney juniors Tyrone Munro (2023-25), Aaron Macey (2023-24), Daniel Wright (2023-25) and Mateus Heslin (2023-25).
In addition, seven of these eight players will feature at the Australian Schoolboys Carnival to be played in Redcliffe between 2-8 July as part of a South Sydney contingent numbering 18 players out of the 160 players competing at the tournament.
Mellars, 18, is the son of former NRL player Vince Mellars and former New Zealand Olympian and national basketball representative Charmian Mellars. A very talented basketballer himself, Haizyn converted to Rugby League in 2020 and was an inaugural member of the Rabbitohs South-East Queensland EPD program in the same year, as a product of Marsden State High School. Haizyn was selected in the 2022 Queensland Emerging Origin squad and represented the Queensland under 18s Schoolboys this year. Built in a similar mould to Campbell Graham, he is a very tall, athletic player with great skills and a strong leap. He competes strongly for the ball in the air and does the tough work out of the back field. Haizyn will also be looking to study at university in his first year in Sydney in 2023. He will train with the NRL side in the 2023 pre-season before progressing to a development contract in 2024 and a top 30 position in 2025.
www.rabbitohs.com.au
Rabbitohs sign and extend contracts on eight up-and-coming stars
South Sydney RabbitohsTue 28 Jun 2022, 03:28 PM
The South Sydney Rabbitohs are pleased to announce the signing and extension of contracts for eight up-and-coming stars including Queensland U19s State of Origin player Jye Gray (2023-24), Haizyn Mellars (2023-25), Liam Le Blanc (2023-24) and TJ Herring (2023-24), as well as South Sydney juniors Tyrone Munro (2023-25), Aaron Macey (2023-24), Daniel Wright (2023-25) and Mateus Heslin (2023-25).
In addition, seven of these eight players will feature at the Australian Schoolboys Carnival to be played in Redcliffe between 2-8 July as part of a South Sydney contingent numbering 18 players out of the 160 players competing at the tournament.
Mellars, 18, is the son of former NRL player Vince Mellars and former New Zealand Olympian and national basketball representative Charmian Mellars. A very talented basketballer himself, Haizyn converted to Rugby League in 2020 and was an inaugural member of the Rabbitohs South-East Queensland EPD program in the same year, as a product of Marsden State High School. Haizyn was selected in the 2022 Queensland Emerging Origin squad and represented the Queensland under 18s Schoolboys this year. Built in a similar mould to Campbell Graham, he is a very tall, athletic player with great skills and a strong leap. He competes strongly for the ball in the air and does the tough work out of the back field. Haizyn will also be looking to study at university in his first year in Sydney in 2023. He will train with the NRL side in the 2023 pre-season before progressing to a development contract in 2024 and a top 30 position in 2025.
South Sydney Rabbitohs – Article
The South Sydney Rabbitohs are pleased to announce the signing and extension of contracts for eight up-and-coming stars.
www.rabbitohs.com.au
Mellars to Depart at Season’s End
South Sydney RabbitohsThu 21 Aug 2025, 01:00 PM
Rabbitohs outside back Haizyn Mellars will depart the Club at season’s end to take up an extended contract at another NRL Club.
Mellars moved to Sydney to join the Rabbitohs in 2023, having been part of the Club’s elite pathways and player development squad in south-east Queensland since 2020. Haizyn has gone on to play in nine NSW Cup and 12 Jersey Flegg Cup games so far in his career. He is yet to make his NRL debut.
Rabbitohs CEO, Blake Solly, said: “Haizyn is a lovely young man and is a popular figure around the Club, however unfortunately due to injuries, he has not been able to play consistent football and show his wares over the past three seasons.
“We wish Haizyn all the very best of luck at his new club and he is always welcome at the Rabbitohs.”
Mellars to Depart at Season’s End – South Sydney Rabbitohs
Rabbitohs outside back Haizyn Mellars will depart the Club at season’s end to take up an extended contract at another NRL Club.
www.rabbitohs.com.au
Son of former Warrior secured for three years until 2028
Richard Becht warriors.kiwi21 Aug 2025, 01:00 pm
Promising winger Haizyn Mellars is the latest son of a former Warrior to have the chance of completing the first father-son NRL double in the One New Zealand Warriors’ history.
The 193cm, 100kg, 21-year-old has been signed from the South Sydney Rabbitohs on a three-year NRL contract until the end of the 2028 season.
He was born in Auckland when his Wellington-born father Vince Mellars was at the Warriors in 2003-2004 while his mother Charmian is a top former basketballer who represented the Tall Blacks at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Haizyn Mellars has come through South Sydney’s pathways programme making his New South Wales debut this year, scoring seven tries in nine games.
“Haizyn has been in our sights for a while. He’s a young winger with special ability as he has shown through the grades,” said One New Zealand Warriors general manager recruitment, pathways and development Andrew McFadden.
“He comes from an impressive sporting background with his mother and father both being high achievers at elite level and he is really keen to come back to New Zealand.”
Mellars says the lure of being back home and the Warriors’ direction as a club were major factors in his decision to sign.
“First and foremost, I’m excited for the opportunity to come back home,” said Haizyn.
“Joining the Warriors is a blessing and is something that means a lot to me and my family.
"After talking with Webby (coach Andrew Webster) and seeing the club’s direction, it’s where I want to be.
“I’m excited to get back home and develop my game alongside the coaching staff and the boys in particular and also learn off some of those senior guys.”
In his nine New South Wales Cup games this year, Mellars has averaged 120 metres and made 40 tackles breaks.
“Haizyn has so much going for him and we’re excited to bring him into the club,” said One New Zealand Warriors head coach Andrew Webster,
“He’ll add depth and he’ll be able to learn from the experienced players he’ll have around him in the outside backs.”
Mellars traces a strong rugby league connection through his family.
After making a try-scoring debut against the Sharks as Warrior #106 in 2003, Vince Mellars went on to play for Cronulla Sutherland and the Sydney Roosters followed by a stint in rugby union when he played for Canterbury before he resumed his rugby league career in the Super League. Vince’s father Peter, a front rower, toured Australia and Papua New Guinea with the Kiwis in 1982 while Peter’s brother Tam played for Wellington.
Until now the Warriors have never had an instance of a father and son playing for the club at NRL level.
Previously Warrior #51 Kevin Iro’s son KL, now with Cronulla Sutherland, represented the Warriors at under-20 and NSW Cup level while Warrior #18 Joe Vagana’s son Isaiah, who’s with Wakefield in the Super League, was a regular in both grades as well while he also played in an NRL trial.
Earlier this month Warrior #55 Ali Lauitiiti’s daughter Ivana made her NRLW debut to give the club its first case of a father and daughter making their top-level debut for the club.
Now Mellars and halfback Jett Cleary – father Ivan (Warrior #73) – are in line to provide the first instances of father-son NRL doubles for the Warriors.
Profile | Haizyn Mellars
Born: May 5, 2004Birthplace: Auckland, NZ
Junior clubs: Gladstone Valleys Diehards
Position: Wing
Height: 193cm
Weight: 100kg
NRL debut: Yet to make debut
Current club: South Sydney Rabbitohs
New South Wales Cup appearances: 9 (2025)
New South Wales Cup points: 28 (7 tries)
Son of former Warrior secured for three years until 2028
Haizyn Mellars latest to have chance of first father-son NRL double in Warriors’ history.
www.warriors.kiwi
