Neil Tierney

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Neil Tierney
Personal information
Full nameNeil Joseph Tierney
Born (1967-10-22) 22 October 1967 (age 57)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Playing information
Height189 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight118 kg (18 st 8 lb)
Position Prop
Club
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
1990–93 St. George Dragons 571004
1994–95 Western Suburbs 192008
1996–99 Manly Sea Eagles 771008
Total15340020
Representative
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
1997 Queensland 30000
Source: [1]

Neil Tierney (born 22 October 1967) is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Playing career

A prop forward, he started his football career in Queensland with the Wynnum-Manly club, winning the Brisbane Rugby League premiership's Rothmans Medal for best and fairest of the 1989 season. The following season Tierney moved to Sydney to play in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership with the St. George Dragons. [2] [3]

He spent four seasons there, then another two with the Western Suburbs Magpies before settling at the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles. Tierney played for the Sea Eagles in the 1996 season's grand final win and the following year's split competition was selected to play in Paul Vautin's Maroons in the 1997 State of Origin series.

At the end of the 1997 ARL season, he played in his second consecutive grand final for Manly, which was lost to the Newcastle Knights. [4]

Tierney played with Manly up until the end of the 1999 NRL season before the club controversially merged with arch rivals North Sydney to form the Northern Eagles as part of the NRL's rationalization policy. Tierney played in what was then Manly's final game before the merger, which was a 20-18 loss against St George at WIN Stadium. He was not offered a contract with the new joint venture club and subsequently retired at the conclusion of the 1999 season.

References

  1. "Neil Tierney – Career Stats & Summary – Rugby League Project". Rugby League Project. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  2. "Tribute to 1996 Premiers at Brookie". Manly Sea Eagles.
  3. "Brad Fittler calls for Manly Sea Eagles and North Sydney Bears to merge and form a 'behemoth' club". Fox Sports.
  4. "Western Suburbs Magpies First Grade Players". Wests Magpies. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 16 October 2019.