This is sad : Rabbitohs key player has found dead few hours ago

The NRL has been rocked by the tragic loss of a South Sydney Rabbitohs player and premiership winner, who died at the age of 31.

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• WARNING: This story contains the name and image of a deceased Indigenous person, which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers should be aware of.The National Rugby League and the South Sydney Rabbitohs are mourning the loss of a grand finalist who died unexpectedly this week.
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  Kyle Turner died at the age of 31 in his hometown of Coonabarabran, following a spectacular NRL career.

• The country rugby league player shot to sporting stardom when he played for the Rabbitohs in their 2014 grand final win over the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. The Rabbitohs will wear black armbands in tomorrow’s game against the Knights, and his number 15 jersey will be retired and honoured on the interchange bench during the match for this week’s game. Rabbitohs CEO Blake Solly said Mr Turner will be remembered very fondly by everyone connected with the Club. ‘Kyle was an amazing human being,’ Mr Solly said.
• ‘He epitomised the country boy Rugby League player. He was such a tough, uncompromising player on the field, yet a lovely, generous man off the field.’
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  South Sydney Rabbitohs grand final winner Kyle Turner has died aged just 31, sending the footy world into mourning

  Capable of playing on an edge or in the middle at lock, Turner made 91 first-grade appearances for the Rabbitohs between 2014 and 2019.

  He started from the bench in the side’s drought-breaking 2014 grand final victory, the culmination of a rookie season that yielded 24 games.

  South Sydney teammate George Burgess was left shattered by the news and posted: ‘I’m speechless at this news, how we do we save each others lives? Or can we even? This hurts my heart so much.’

  ‘Kyle has a massive legacy in the football community … a lot of juniors admired him, looked up to him,’ a Coonabarabran Rugby League spokesman said through tears as the local team held a moment’s silence in tribute to their fallen teammate on Saturday.

  ‘He was such a role model for not only them but on behalf of the club. Kyle will be sorely missed and we think of his family today.’

  

  Turner was a much-liked member of the Rabbitohs and received the Burrow Supporters Group Appreciation Award from the club’s fans in 2016

  

  The young NRL star’s footy career was cut short by injury and he returned to his hometown of Coonabarabran to play local rugby league and commence his career as a teacher