Meet Halle Lahrs, the 2021 delivery adding richness to the lives of her parents, Tom and Amber, in "Tamworth by the sea", Townsville.
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Tom Lahrs - known to league fans as Tom Learoyd-Lahrs (Learoyd is his mother's name) - has moved from Tamworth to the North Queensland capital to start a new life with his family.
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For the former Raiders enforcer, the relocation has been a transformative experience: he has started a mature-age carpentry apprenticeship with his father, Michael.
The 35-year-old commenced the apprenticeship when he was playing, but halted it because of his rugby league commitments.
And then when he retired from professional footy in 2015, his knees were too dodgy to restart the trade. But years away from the game, and a number of post-footy operations, has resulted in his knees improving.
In Tamworth, he had worked as Farrer's Indigenous liaison officer and its assistant rugby league coach.
"It was always something I was gonna do," he said of resuming carpentry. "I just had to wait until I could physically do it, I guess."
"My knees are always gonna be a problem," the father of four added. "But I'm managing it. There's things I can do and things I can't do."
At Michael Lahrs Carpentry, it is just him and his dad.
"I'm enjoying it; it's been good," he said, adding: "It's not really a big business. He just does renovations and stuff like that."
The former Australia and NSW representative - whose name morphed into Learoyd-Lahrs on the advice of the Broncos, his first NRL club - described Townsville as "Tamworth by the sea".
"It's a big country town. People are very similar [to Tamworth] ... It's got a lot of similarities to Tamworth."
He said he was "enjoying" life in the tropics. "It's nice to go to the footy. I watch my kids play.
"I've got no obligations to coach or anything like that at the moment ... It's actually quite relaxing."
"I love coaching," he added. "But I was probably due for a break."
Lahrs's coaching duties had included North Tamworth's under-18 side, whom he led to the 2019 premiership, and the 2020 Greater Northern Tigers under-18 side.
"I've got no doubt that at some stage I will get back into a little bit of coaching."
Lahrs played for Norths late in the 2016 season, when they won their third-straight premiership, and has not played since. His wife's brothers are former Bears player Shane-Leigh Wadwell and current Bear Brock Wadwell.
"I still get the itch now," he said. "I sit around and watch people play football and I feel like I should be out there trying to have a go. It's a hard sport to let go of."
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