Alan McIndoe (born 14 May 1964) is an Australian former

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footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. A

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State of Origin and Australian international representative , he played club football in the

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for the

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, with whom he topped the League's try-scoring list in 1991, and the Penrith Panthers. On 4 October 2006 McIndoe was named on the wing in a 40 Year Panthers Legends Team. The same year he was named on the wing in the Illawarra Steelers' "Team of Steel".

Playing career

Coming from

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, McIndoe started playing first grade football for Illawarra in 1983. He made his debut for Queensland in the

1988 State of Origin series The 1988 State of Origin series was the seventh annual three-game series between the New South Wales and Queensland representative rugby league football teams to be contested entirely under 'state of origin' selection rules. Queensland enjoyed th ...

, scoring a try in game 1 and playing in all three matches. That year he also represented Australia against a 'Rest of the World' team. The following season McIndoe moved to Penrith and also played in all three matches of the

1989 State of Origin series The 1989 State of Origin series was the eighth time the annual three-game series between New South Wales and Queensland was contested entirely under 'state of origin' selection rules. It was Queensland's second consecutive Origin clean-sweep and ...

, scoring in games 1 and 2. In the 1990 season he was, for the third consecutive year, selected for Queensland in all three games of the State of Origin before playing for the Panthers in their Grand Final loss to Canberra. He returned to Illawarra in the

1991 NSWRL season The 1991 NSWRL season was the eighty-fourth season of professional rugby league football in Australia. This year the New South Wales Rugby League experimented with a draft system for the first time. Sixteen clubs competed for the J J Giltinan Sh ...

and that year took the club record for most tries in a match with 5 against the Gold Coast and went on to be the League's top try-scorer with 19. McIndoe played his final season with the Steelers in 1993. In 2020, McIndoe spoke to NRL.com about his final year at Illawarra saying "I love Illawarra - it will always be my second home but we had a disagreement in my final season in 1993. I got into financial planning and one of my teammates was Dale Fritz. We sat down and he told me how much money he was on ... he was a good player and I told him he could do better and to put feelers out. Another coach found out - and told the Steelers and the shit hit the fan. They wanted to sack me straight away. In the end, they stripped me of the club captaincy, which hurt. But we resolved it and I left on good terms. I had two years as captain-coach of Tumut and then gave it away".

References

Sources

Alan McIndoe at stateoforigin.com.auAlan McIndoe at nrlstats.comAlan McIndoe at yesterdayshero.com.auQueensland representatives at qrl.com.au
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