Graham Appo

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Graham Appo
Personal information
Born (1974-07-11) 11 July 1974 (age 51)
Southport, Australia
Playing information
Height176 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight85 kg (13 st 5 lb)
Position Wing, Fullback, Five-eighth, Centre
Club
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
1994–98 Canberra Raiders 2073034
1998 Adelaide Rams 1412340116
1999 Sydney City Roosters 305010
2000 North Qld Cowboys 1543022
2001 Huddersfield Giants 740016
2002–05 Warrington Wolves 7335800300
Total132621250498
Source: [1]

Graham Appo (born 11 July 1974) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. He played throughout the back-line during his long career and was also a talented goal-kicker. Appo started playing first-grade club football in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership for the Canberra Raiders in 1994, winning the club's rookie of the year award. Early in the 1998 season, he joined the Adelaide Rams for their final season in the NRL, setting club records for most tries in a match (3), most tries in a season (12), most goals in a match (8), most points in a match (24) and most points for a season (116). He then moved to the Sydney City Roosters and later the North Queensland Cowboys for a season each.

Appo embarked on a career in the English Super League after the 2000 NRL season. In England, he played for the Huddersfield Giants and Warrington Wolves. Appo's best year came in 2003 when, covering at stand-off for the injured Lee Briers, he scored 23 tries for Warrington, in one game scoring a total of 34 points, which was the second-highest individual points haul for a player in Super League at the time. He was later named in that year's Super League Dream Team.

References

  1. "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.