Le Feuvre learns fast

RENE Le Feuvre had never played a game of Australian rules football before his first representative game.

The QAFL’s Round 16 Rising Star Award nominee and Surfers Paradise wingman, who grew up in the small sugar milling town of Giru, just south of Townsville, was all about rugby league before a chance call-up changed everything.

“I loved rugby league and I grew up in a league town,” Le Feuvre (pictured) told aflq.com.au. “Then one day, they didn’t have enough players to fill a Burdekin under-12s Aussie rules rep side, so I agreed to play.

“It was pretty funny because I didn’t even know the rules. But I got picked to play in the Queensland championships after that.”

Le Feuvre joined the Gold Coast Suns academy as a 14year-old and played seven NEAFL games for the club before leaving to join the Demons where he has since played 26 QAFL games.

Le Feuvre is the fourth Surfers Paradise player to earn a Rising Star nomination, joining teammates Harris Newton, Jasper Taylor and Alby Jones.

“That is fantastic for the club and is a flow-on from the program that the club set up,” Surfers coach Brad Moore said.