Rod Wishart
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Full name | Roderick James Clarke Wishart | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Gerringong, New South Wales, Australia | 15 October 1968|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 88 kg (13 st 12 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Wing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rod Wishart (born 15 October 1968) is an
Background
Wishart was born in Gerringong, New South Wales, Australia.[citation needed]
Playing career
Wishart, who played both centre and wing in his junior years, grew up in his home town of
Illawarra Steelers
Wishart played his first match for the Illawarra Steelers in 1989, finished his rookie season as the club's top point-scorer with 84 from 2 tries and 37 goals from his 19 games. [citation needed] During the season he scored a try in the Steelers 18–20 loss to the Brisbane Broncos in the 1989 Panasonic Cup Final at Parramatta Stadium.
He made his State of Origin debut on the wing for New South Wales in 1990 and was considered a certain selection [by whom?] for the 1990 Kangaroo tour though he was ultimately ruled out through injury. [citation needed] In the second test of the 1991 Trans-Tasman Test series against New Zealand at the Sydney Football Stadium.
Wishart became the second Steelers player after Alan McIndoe to be selected to play for Australia and the first Steelers junior to do so. [citation needed] injury was not enough to keep him out of Australia's 40–12 win in the deciding third test at Brisbane's Lang Park, where he scored his second of an eventual 10 test career tries.
Wishart made 22 appearances for New South Wales between 1990 and 1998 in the State of Origin, scoring 66 points from 5 tries and 23 goals. [citation needed] He was NSW first choice goal kicker between 1992 and 1995.
During the
Wishart failed to regain his test place in 1993, despite good performances for the Steelers and NSW, who won their second Origin series in a row with selectors preferring the Brisbane Broncos pair of Willie Carne (who made his test debut in the same game as Wishart in 1991) and Michael Hancock. He was again the Steelers leading point and try scorer for the 1993 season, scoring 118 points from 11 tries and 37 goals.
His goal kicking improved dramatically in the
In
At the end of 1995, Rod Wishart scored a try in Australia's 16–8 win over England in front of 66,540 at London's Wembley Stadium in the 1995 Rugby League World Cup final.
A serious shoulder injury restricted Wishart to just 5 games in 1997. Injury also restricted him to just 15 games in 1998. [citation needed]
By the end of the Illawarra Steelers final season in 1998, Rod Wishart had set a number of club point scoring records.
- Most career tries – 68
- Most career goals – 386
- Most points in a season – 176 (11 tries, 66 goals) in 1995
- Most career points – 1,044
St. George Illawarra Dragons
When the Steelers formed the
Post playing
In 2005, he was named one of the 25 greatest ever New South Wales rugby league team players.[citation needed]
Wishart appeared in the 2006 film, Footy Legends.
His son
References
Sources
- Alan Whiticker & Glen Hudson (2007). The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players. ISBN 978-1-877082-93-1.
- Big League's 25 Years of Origin Collectors' Edition, News Magazines, Surry Hills, Sydney