Daryl Halligan

Daryl Halligan

Personal information
Full name	Daryl John Halligan
Nickname	Chook
Born	25 July 1966 Waikato, New Zealand
Playing information
Height	192 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	96 kg (15 st 2 lb)
Rugby union
Position	Fullback
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1986–90	Waikato	56	32	97		360
Rugby league
Position	Wing
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1991–93	North Sydney	64	23	225	2	544
1994–00	Canterbury Bulldogs	166	57	630	2	1490
	Total	230	80	855	4	2034
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1992–98	New Zealand	20	4	60	1	137
Source: [1]

Daryl John Halligan (born 25 July 1966^[2] in Waikato, New Zealand) is a rugby league football commentator and former professional player. A New Zealand international winger, he was the pre-eminent goal-kicker of his era, retiring as the highest point scorer in Australian premiership history. Halligan played club football in Australia for the North Sydney Bears and Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, winning the 1995 ARL Premiership with the latter. Before switching to the professional code of rugby league, Halligan played amateur rugby union for Waikato. He played on the wing for the Canterbury Bulldogs in their loss in the 1998 NRL grand final to the Brisbane Broncos.

In rugby league, Halligan was renowned as a fine goalkicker, his 855 first grade goals coming at an impressive 80% success rate. Halligan is noted for revolutionising goal-kicking by using a plastic tee from which to kick, instead of the old method where kickers would set the ball upon a mound of sand or earth.^[3] He has since worked to design the popular "Supertee" line of kicking tees, used by top kickers in both codes of rugby across the world.

In 2000 Halligan became the first person to score 2,000 points in the NRL. That same year he overtook Mick Cronin's record for the most points scored in an NSWRFL career (1,971) - a record which had stood since 1986; Halligan's eventual total of 2,034 was bettered by Jason Taylor in 2001. Halligan also scored 80 tries, and kicked 4 field goals to amass that total.

Halligan is currently a commentator with Sky Network Television in New Zealand.

References

1. Rugby League Project
2. Matt Logue. "Legend Q&A". Rugby League Week. Sydney, NSW: PBLMedia (23 April 2008): 30–31.
3. Alan Whiticker & Glen Hudson (2007). The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players. Wetherill Park, New South Wales: Gary Allen Pty Ltd. p. 215. ISBN 978-1-877082-93-1.

External links

• Canterbury Bulldogs profile

1. Heads, Ian and Middleton, David (2008) A Centenary of Rugby League, MacMillan Sydney