Alan Tongue
 Tongue while playing for Canberra in 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 94 kg (14 st 11 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Lock, Second-row, Hooker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Rugby League Project As of 16 July 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alan Tongue (born 13 October 1980) in (Tamworth, New South Wales) is a professional rugby league player who is the current captain of the Canberra Raiders in the National Rugby League (NRL) competition. His position of choice is at lock.
Early years
While attending Farrer Memorial Agricultural High School in 1998, Tongue was selected to play for his country in the Australian Schoolboys team.[1]
Playing career
Tongue is a 10 year veteran at Canberra, making his debut in 2000 and winning the Raiders' Rookie of the Year award after joining the club in 1998. He spent the majority of his early years moving between the backrow, hooker and the interchange bench. He established his position within the side in 2005, and in 2006 Tongue broke the record for most tackles in the regular season with 1,087 taking the record from Richard Swain (also an ex Farrer boy).[2] The next highest ranking player was Nathan Hindmarsh with 911. Tongue was also voted the Raider's Player of the Year in 2006.[3]
At the end of the 2008 NRL regular season, Tongue was awarded Dally M recognition for Lock of the Year and Captain of the Year after leading the Raiders to 6th on the competition ladder. Tongue was also named in the Prime Minister's XIII at the end of 2008.[4]
In his 200th game for Canberra, on Saturday 28 August 2010, a Tongue supporter commented on the opposition (North Queensland Cowboys, through its player Willie Mason) in a sexually suggestive crowd poster shown prominently at the stadium and in TV coverage: "Who needs a Big Willie when you have a great Tongue?". In this game, Tongue returned to the side, and suffered another injury, in a 48-4 crushing defeat of the Cowboys at Canberra Stadium[5] that had the Raiders join the top 8 teams in the competition and join the finals rounds for the 2010 competition.
Representative career
Tongue was selected in the City vs Country match on 8 May 2009.[6]
References
- ^ "Australian Secondary Schools Rugby League". Sporting Pulse. Retrieved 2008-10-10.
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- ^ Tongue tied with the Raiders until 2010
- ^ Tongue named in PM'S XIII
- ^ Raiders in the eight in Tongue’s 200, Canberra Raiders, 28 august 2010, accessed 29 August 2010
- ^ Balym, Todd (2009-05-03). "Blues halfback duel in two as Mitchell Pearce misses selection". Fox Sports. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
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