Patrick Carrigan (born 1 January 1998) is an Australian professional

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footballer who plays as a and for the

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in the

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(NRL) and

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at international level. He has played at representative level for

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, winning the

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in 2022.

Background

Carrigan was born in

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, Queensland, Australia. He attended St Laurence's College, South Brisbane from year 5 to 7 and he completed his schooling at

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in Brisbane where he was School Captain in 2015. There he played

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and captained their 1st XV. He was selected for Metropolitan North School Sports Rugby League in 2015. Carrigan played his junior football for the

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before being signed by the

. A UQ Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours) student, he received a UQ Blue sporting honour in 2019, only the third Rugby League player to win this award since 1912. Carrigan is eligible to play for the

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via the heritage rule. Efforts were made to recruit Carrigan for the

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with Carrigan ultimately being selected and playing for the

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Playing career

Early career

Carrigan played for the

in the

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from 2016 to 2017, winning the Broncos NYC U20s Player of The Year award both seasons, Broncos NYC U20s Best Forward in 2016 and Broncos NYC U20s Players' Player in 2017. Patrick Carrigan

Carrigan was named in the 2017

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Team of The Year at . Carrigan represented Queensland U18s in 2016 starting at and Queensland U20s in 2017 off the bench and captained the QLD U20s in 2018, starting at in QLDs first ever win in the U20s, winning 30 to 12 vs the NSW U20s. In 2018 with the

ceasing, Carrigan would continue to develop with the

Wynnum Manly Seagulls The Wynnum-Manly Seagulls are an Australian rugby league football club based at Kougari Oval, in Brisbane's bayside suburb of Manly West, which neighbours the suburb of Wynnum. They competed in the Brisbane Rugby League from 1951 to 1997. Since ...

in the

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and would be rewarded with selection for the

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, starting at in the 40-24 win over the

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2019

In Round 5, 2019 Carrigan made his

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debut for the Brisbane Broncos against the

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. Carrigan would finish the season with 19 games played and would be awarded a joint winner of the Broncos Rookie of The Year award alongside fellow Broncos U20s graduate

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2020

With regular captain

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missing the start of the

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due to injury, Carrigan would co-captain Brisbane for the first two rounds of the

alongside recruit

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having only previously played 19 NRL games in his career. Carrigan made 19 appearances for Brisbane captaining in 12 of those games in the

as the club finished last on the table and claimed the wooden spoon for the first time in their history. Carrigan would win both the Broncos Player of The Year & Players' Player awards alongside

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, while being the sole recipient of the Broncos Most Consistent award.

2021

In Round 9 of the

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, Carrigan suffered a season ending

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during Brisbane's 19-18 loss against arch-rivals

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2022

Returning from his ACL in Round 1, Carrigan would return finding career best form for a reborn Brisbane, helping return the club to the Top 4 mid-way through the competition, Carrigan would produce career best numbers to gain his maiden

jumper after just 8 games back. Carrigan played the first two games from the bench and the final game starting at . He became the first player in their debut series to win the

. Following Brisbane's shock loss against the

in round 20 of the

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, Carrigan was referred straight to the NRL judiciary after he performed a hip drop tackle on Wests Tigers

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which ended the players season. As a result of the tackle, Carrigan was suspended for four weeks. Patty Carrigan

In October he was named in the Australia squad for the

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. Carrigan played for Australia in their World Cup final victory over Samoa.

2023

Carrigan re-signed his contract with the club until at least the end of the 2028 season. In round 22 of the

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, Carrigan scored his first ever try in the NRL as Brisbane defeated the Sydney Roosters 32-10.

Statistics

*denotes season competing

Honours

Individual * Brisbane Broncos U20s Player of The Year: 2016, 2017 * Brisbane Broncos U20s Players' Player: 2017 *

Team of The Year: 2017 * Brisbane Broncos " Cyril Connell Award" Rookie of The Year: 2019 * Brisbane Broncos "Gary Balkin Award" Players' Player: 2020 * Brisbane Broncos "

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Award" Most Consistent Player: 2020, 2022 * Brisbane Broncos " Paul Morgan Medal" Player of the Year: 2020 *

: 2022 * Community Service Award: 2022 Representative *

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Winners International * 2021 Rugby League World Cup final Winner

References

External links

Brisbane Broncos Profile
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