Greg Inglis
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Player Bio
- Inducted:
- 2024
- Date of Birth:
- 15 January 1987
- Birthplace:
- Kempsey, NSW
- Nickname:
- G.I.
- Debut Team:
- Melbourne Storm
- Date:
- 16 April 2005
- Opposition:
- -
- Venue:
- Olympic Park
- Representative:
- Australia, Queensland
- Clubs:
- Melbourne Storm, South Sydney Rabbitohs
Career
Milestones
- NRL games: 263
- Points: 618 (149 tries, 9 goals, 4 field goals)
- Australia: Tests 39 (2006-16), World Cup 2008, 2013; Tri-Nations 2006, Four Nations 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016
- Queensland: State of Origins 32 (2006-18)
- Grand Finals: 5 – Melbourne 2006 (L), 2007 (W), 2008 (L), 2009 (W), Souths 2014 (W)
- Queensland Under-19s 2005; Queensland Under-17s 2004
- Australian Schoolboys 2004 (from Wavell State High)
- Australian Prime Minister’s XIII 2016
- Captained South Sydney’s World Club Challenge-winning team 2015
- Dally M Fullback of the Year 2013
- RLIF Fullback of the Year 2013
- George Piggins Medal 2013 (joint), 2015
- Represented Indigenous All Stars 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 (c)
- Played in Melbourne’s World Club Challenge-winning team 2010
- Won Golden Boot as best player in the world 2009
- RLIF centre of the year 2009
- Dally M Representative Player of the Year 2008, 2009
- Harry Sunderland Medal winner 2009
- Wally Lewis Medal winner 2009
- Dally M and RLIF Five-eighth of the Year 2008
- Clive Churchill Medal winner 2007
Biography
Greg Inglis burst onto the scene as an 18-year-old with the Melbourne Storm in 2005 and a year later was playing Origin for Queensland and wearing the green and gold of Australia, launching a storied representative career which included 10 series wins with the all-conquering Maroons.
The champion centre was almost unstoppable in his prime, collecting the Golden Boot award as the world’s best player in 2009, the same year he won the Wally Lewis Medal for the player of the Origin series.
Greg Inglis was a special talent
Inglis played 117 games at the Storm from 2005-10 before joining South Sydney in 2011 and helping the foundation club break a 43-year premiership drought in 2014. He scored 71 tries for the Bunnies, including his memorable runaway try in the dying stages of the 2014 grand final over Canterbury, famously celebrated with the ‘goanna’.
Inglis’ try scoring prowess is legendary, with is 18 tries for Queensland the most by any player in Origin history. He scored 31 tries in 39 Tests for Australia, including a hat-trick in a 2008 World Cup demolition of England in Melbourne.
The man known affectionately as ‘GI’ retired in 2019 with 149 tries to his name in 263 NRL games and now runs the Goanna Academy, with a charter to improve mental health outcomes in Australia.
Hall of Fame Members
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