Rising Rooster Terrell May has an ambivalent attitude towards rugby league. There’s only one reason why he keeps playing it.
On any given day, despite being a rising star in a star-studded team, May often ponders the prospect of throwing it all in for a third time.
“Then you just look at the bigger picture. You need to support your family and I couldn’t do it without footy. I have aspirations to take the club to the GF and to play for NSW.” “All of us brothers, we always talk about it, we didn’t really enjoy playing footy, we just played it because we’re good at it.”Indeed, the May brothers are particularly good at football. One of the reasons Terrell continues to play it is the chance to help provide for his parents, Sally and Jason, as well as for his own young family.
Every player has their ‘why?‘, their motivation to reach the top. For May, it’s the chance to provide his children with an easier life than he experienced.“We grew up not eating dinner often and not taking school lunch ever. But we also grew up very grateful. We grew up with boys that are on different paths, like a lot of boys just in construction, in jail, in that gangster life, some in footy. It was all different paths in Mount Druitt.
After his humble beginnings, May has ended up at the NRL’s most glamourous club. Every day he makes the long commute from Sydney’s west, which he still calls home, to Bondi Junction. “Not many people know what’s going on at home and no one will know besides the people that are in my circle,” he says.
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