Alan McIndoe

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Playing Career

Vital Statistics

Born
Thursday, 14th May, 1964
Current Age
59 years and 320 days

Biography

Prolific try-scoring winger came to I’warra from Emerald in Central Queensland in 1983. A serious knee injury kept McIndoe off the field in 1984 but he recovered to represent Queensland and Australia during the late 1980s. In 1988 he was selected to play for Australia against the ‘Rest of the World’, thus becoming the Steelers’ first Australian representative player. However, despite two good seasons with Penrith (scoring a try in the club's grand final loss to Canberra in 1990), Test honours eluded him. Returning to I’warra as the club's sole draft choice in 1991 McIndoe was the season's leading try-scorer (19t) and crossed for a club record 5 tries in the match against the G’Coast. His career with the Steelers came to an end when he showed poor judgement and acted as an agent and approached a rival club on behalf of team-mate Dale Fritz. Sacked as club captain McIndoe was released at the end of the 1993 season and went on to captain-coach Tumut in the Group 9 competition. The classy winger holds the distinction of being named in the best ever I’warra (1982-98) and Penrith (1967-2006) merit teams.
- ALAN WHITICKER

Playing Career Statistics

All statistics shown in this section are based only on data available in the RLP database, and are not necessarily a complete and/or 100% accurate representation of a player's career. This information should be used as a guide only. If you see a question mark (?), it denotes that the figure is not available.

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Competitions

Competition   App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
NRL 165 91 -   - 364 78 85 2 47.27% List
National Panasonic Cup 2 2 -   - 8 0 2 0 0.00% List
State of Origin 9 3 -   - 12 7 2 0 77.78% List
NRL Finals 7 3 -   - 12 3 4 0 42.86% List
Tooheys Challenge Cup 6 6 -   - 24 4 2 0 66.67% List


International

International Matches - By Team

Team Years App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Australia 1988 1 - -   - - 1 0 0 100.00% List


Representative

Australia - By Team

Team Years App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
QLD 1988-90 9 3 -   - 12 7 2 0 77.78% List


Club Career

NRL/NSWRL - By Year

Team Season App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Illawarra NSWRFL 1983 5 4 -   - 16 1 4 0 20.00% List
Illawarra NSWRL 1984 2 - -   - - 1 1 0 50.00% List
Illawarra NSWRL 1985 11 5 -   - 20 2 9 0 18.18% List
Illawarra NSWRL 1986 23 11 -   - 44 7 16 0 30.43% List
Illawarra NSWRL 1987 19 9 -   - 36 7 12 0 36.84% List
Illawarra NSWRL 1988 15 9 -   - 36 4 11 0 26.67% List
Penrith NSWRL 1989 18 12 -   - 48 12 6 0 66.67% List
Penrith NSWRL 1990 19 14 -   - 56 14 5 0 73.68% List
Illawarra NSWRL 1991 21 19 -   - 76 12 8 1 57.14% List
Illawarra NSWRL 1992 19 6 -   - 24 11 7 1 57.89% List
Illawarra NSWRL 1993 13 2 -   - 8 7 6 0 53.85% List

NRL/NSWRL - By Team

Team Years App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Illawarra 1983-88, 1991-93 128 65 -   - 260 52 74 2 40.63% List
Penrith 1989-90 37 26 -   - 104 26 11 0 70.27% List
Overall1983-1993 165 91 0   0 364 78 85 2 47.27% List

Your Say

  • Bo jangle
    21/05/2020

    Equal to Willie carne in skill and pace great player

  • Dean
    31/12/2022

    Great player. Very unlucky not to play origin n 91 and 92. Also unbelievable he only played once for Australia against rest of the world.

  • Dean
    24/09/2023

    Deserved a spot in the Australian side in 1989. Great player!

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Contributions: AJ Lucantonio, Paul Carter, Rugby League Tables, Andrew Ferguson, Shawn Dollin, Alan Katzmann, Steven Russo, Max Turner, Greg Fiveash

Sources: NSWRL Rugby League Yearbook 1989-90, Match Video, NSWRL Rugby League Yearbook 1987-88, NSWRL Rugby League Yearbook 1988-89, NSWRL Rugby League Yearbook 1990-91, NSWRL Rugby League Yearbook 1991-92, NSWRL Rugby League Yearbook 1992-93, NSWRL Rugby League Yearbook 1994