Nathan Blacklock
| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Nathan Dylan-Drake Blacklock | |||||
| Nickname | Tingha Tornado | |||||
| Born |
4 April 1976 Tingha, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Playing information | ||||||
| Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | |||||
| Weight | 83 kg (13 st 1 lb; 183 lb) | |||||
| Rugby league | ||||||
| Position | Wing | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1995 | Sydney Roosters | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1997–98 | St George Dragons | 23 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 80 |
| 1999–04 | St George Illawarra | 114 | 100 | 14 | 0 | 428 |
| 2005–06 | Hull F.C. | 47 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 132 |
| Total | 189 | 154 | 14 | 0 | 644 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2001–04 | Country NSW | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2001 | Australia | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 12 |
| Rugby union | ||||||
| Position | Wing | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2003 | New South Wales | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Source: RLP, NSW Player List, Yesterday's Hero | ||||||
Nathan Blacklock (born 4 April 1976) is an Australian former professional rugby league and, briefly, rugby union footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. An Australia national rugby league representative winger, he played for the Sydney City Roosters, the St. George Dragons before they merged to form the St. George Illawarra Dragons, with whom he continued playing, becoming the National Rugby League's top try-scorer for three consecutive seasons from 1999 to 2001. Blacklock also played in Super League for English club, Hull F.C., with whom he won the 2005 Challenge Cup.
Born in Tingha, New South Wales, Blacklock went on to gain the nickname, Tingha Tornado.
Blacklock began his professional career in 1995 at the Sydney City Roosters, before moving to the St George Dragons where he played between 1997 and 1998. In 1998, playing for the St George Dragons, he scored 20 tries from 22 games, the second highest in the competition that year. From 1999 to 2002 he played for the newly formed joint venture St George Illawarra Dragons. He played on the wing for the Dragons in their 1999 NRL Grand Final loss to Melbourne. In 1999 Blacklock scored 24 tries from 24 matches, the highest that year. Blacklock was the top try scorer in the Australian National Rugby League competition for three consecutive seasons whilst playing for the St George Illawarra Dragons between 1999 and 2001. It was the first time since the 1920s in Australian rugby league that a player had topped the try scoring list for three consecutive seasons. Blacklock was the first ever player to score 20 or more tries in 4 consecutive seasons.
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