Neil Tierney

Neil Tierney

Personal information
Full name	Neil Joseph Tierney
Born	22 October 1967 (1967-10-22) (age 44) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Playing information
Height	189 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	118 kg (18 st 8 lb)
Position	Prop
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1990–1993	St. George Dragons	57	1	0	0	4
1994–1995	Wests Magpies	19	2	0	0	8
1996–1999	Manly-Warringah	77	1	0	0	8
	Total	153	4	0	0	20
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1997	Queensland	3	0	0	0	0
Source: RLP

Neil Tierney (born 22 October 1967) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s. 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. 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 Newcastle.

External links

• Neil Tierney at yesterdayshero.com.au
• Neil Tierney at rugbyleagueproject.com
• Neil Tierney at nrlstats.com

Persondata
Name	Tierney, Neil
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	22 October 1967
Place of birth	Brisbane, Queensland
Date of death
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