Queensland Reds players to shave beards to raise money for Leukaemia Foundation

SHAVING his lumberjack beard is the fun end of the serious work that Reds hooker James Hanson is doing for the Leukaemia Foundation.

Reds players Jono Owen, James Hanson and Curtis Browning prepare to lose their beards for

SHAVING his lumberjack-style beard for charity is the fun end of the serious work that Reds hooker James Hanson is doing for the Leukaemia Foundation.

Behind the scenes, Hanson has made a point of delivering Reds tickets to the families of sufferers at the ESA Leukaemia Foundation Village at Brisbane’s Dutton Park.

“I’ve had friends touched by the illness and you know that the supporting families do it tough themselves,” Hanson said.

Reds fans have kicked in over $14,000 already to remove the beards of Hanson, Curtis Browning and Jono Owen plus the hair of Mike Harris and Liam Gill.

A razor trimmed Hanson to an unseemly mohawk hairstyle at Ballymore yesterday to show he means to go through with it for the Leukaemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave.

All going well, Harris and Gill will be bald next week and the Reds’ “Beardos” club will be no more. The fundraising goal is $25,000.

http://my.leukaemiafoundation.org.au/QueenslandReds