| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Graham Mackay | |
| Date of birth | 12 October 1968 | |
| Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) | |
| Senior clubs* | ||
| Years | Club | Apps (points) |
| 1988–1990 1991–1994 1995 1996 1997–1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 |
Western Suburbs Penrith Easts South Queensland Gold Coast Manly Leeds Bradford Hull |
47 (102) 82 (255) 13 (68) 8 (26) 43 (144) 8 (8) 12 (44) 16 (50) 27 (120) |
| Representative teams | ||
| 1992–1994 1992 2000 |
New South Wales Kangaroos Scotland |
4 (2) 1 (8) 1 (2) |
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* Professional club appearances and points |
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Graham Mackay (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian former national and state representative rugby league player whose club career spanned nine Australian and English clubs, including Western Suburbs, Penrith, Gold Coast Chargers and Hull F.C. in a fifteen year top grade career. Events 539 BC - The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. History See also History of rugby league The grass roots of rugby league can be traced to early football history, through the playing of ball games The Western Suburbs Magpies are a Rugby league football club in Sydney Australia The Penrith Panthers is an Australian professional Rugby league football team Gold Coast were a Rugby league team which played in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership from 1988 to 1994, the Australian Rugby Hull FC is a professional Rugby league football club formed in 1865 and based in Hull, East Yorkshire, England. His position of choice was on the wing.
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Club career
Mackay was a schoolboy rugby union representative with the Sydney Combined High Schools side. Overview See also Playing rugby union A rugby union match lasts for 80 minutes (plus stoppage time with a short He was graded by Western Suburbs in 1987 and made his first grade debut in round 1 of the 1988 season. The Western Suburbs Magpies are a Rugby league football club in Sydney Australia He was a regular first-grader in 1989 and a capable goal-kicker booting 19 conversions and scoring six tries in his second top-grade season. Indifferent form saw him make only eleven appearances in Wests' run-on side in 1990 and at the end of that season he was swapped by Wests in the short-lived and controversial draft system which existed in Australian rugby league solely in the 1991 season. A draft is a process used in the United States, Canada, and Australia to allocate certain players to Sports teams The 1991 New South Wales Rugby League premiership was the eighty-fourth season of professional Rugby league football in Australia
Mackay was 31st draft choice when snapped up by Penrith coach Phil Gould. The Penrith Panthers is an Australian professional Rugby league football team For the drummer Phil Gould see Phil Gould (musician. Phillip Ronald Gould (born 1958 in Sydney, New South Wales) is His Penrith years were the highlight of his career and from there he made his state and national representative debuts. A strong runner and defender Mackay added the strength of an extra forward to the backline. He was a member of the Panthers successful 1991 premiership side. The 1991 New South Wales Rugby League premiership was the eighty-fourth season of professional Rugby league football in Australia
Mackay quit the Panthers at the end of 1994 to link with his former coach Gould at Easts. The Sydney Roosters is a professional Rugby league club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia. He spent the 1995 season there and returned to good goal-kicking form booting 20 goals in just 13 games.
In 1996 he joined the South Queensland Crushers for that club's second season in the ARL. The South Queensland Crushers were an Australian Rugby league football club based in Brisbane, Queensland. Following a pay dispute with the cash-strapped Crushers, he joined the neighbouring Gold Coast Chargers and captained the Chargers during the final two years of the club’s existence. Gold Coast were a Rugby league team which played in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership from 1988 to 1994, the Australian Rugby Following the demise of the Gold Coast, Mackay signed with his sixth club, the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles for the 1999 season. The Manly - Warringah Sea Eagles are an Australian professional Rugby league club based on the Northern Beaches of Sydney
In 2000 he journeyed to English rugby league playing with the Leeds Rhinos in 2000 and with the eventual English Super League premiers Bradford in 2001. Leeds Rhinos, or informally Leeds or Rhinos, are an English professional Rugby league football club based in Leeds The Bradford Bulls are a professional Rugby league club based in the city of Bradford, England. The swansong of his long and varied first grade career was in 2001 with Hull F.C.
Representative career
Under Gould as State coach, Mackay made his representative debut for New South Wales on the wing in game I of the 1992 Rugby League State of Origin series. Hull FC is a professional Rugby league football club formed in 1865 and based in Hull, East Yorkshire, England. The New South Wales Rugby League team represents the state of New South Wales annually in the Rugby League State of Origin competition against arch-rivals Queensland The 1992 State of Origin series was the 13th annual Rugby League State of Origin series between New South Wales and Queensland. He also played in game II of 1991, game III of 1993 and game I of 1994 regularly competing for a wing spot against Andrew Ettingshausen. Andrew Ettingshausen (born 29 October 1965 in Sutherland, New South Wales) is an Australian former Rugby league player Despite his goal-kicking ability and strong bursts down the flank, his representative form was inconsistent and he was dropped after the Blues' game I loss of 1994. The New South Wales Rugby League team represents the state of New South Wales annually in the Rugby League State of Origin competition against arch-rivals Queensland
In 1992 he made his Australian national debut in a Test match against Papua New Guinea in Townsville. Mackay scored two tries in a man-of-the-match performance on debut. He was chosen in Australia's World Cup squad at year's end, he did not play in the final. The Rugby League World Cup is an international competition contested by the men's national rugby league teams of the member nations of the Rugby League International
In the 2000 World Cup competition Mackay represented Scotland.
Sources
- Andrews, Malcolm (2006) The ABC of Rugby League Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney
- Big League's 25 Years of Origin Collectors' Edition , News Magazines, Surry Hills, Sydney
- Whiticker, Alan & Hudson, Glen (2006) The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players, Gavin Allen Publishing, Sydney
Links
Graham Mackay at the State of Origin official website. Alan J Whiticker born 1958 Penrith, New South Wales is a prolific Australian non-fiction author with currently over 35 published books State of Origin is an annual best-of-three series of Rugby league matches between the Maroons, representing the state of Queensland, and the Blues
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