Graham Mackay was born on 12 October 1968 and is a former international and state representative rugby league footballer whose club career spanned Ten Australian and English clubs, including Western Suburbs, Penrith, Gold Coast Chargers, Hull FC and the Ipswich Jets in a sixteen-year top grade career.
15 Facts About Graham Mackay
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Graham Mackay was a schoolboy rugby union representative with the Sydney Combined High Schools side.
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Graham Mackay was graded by Western Suburbs in 1987 and made his first grade debut in round 1 of the 1988 season.
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Graham Mackay was a regular first-grader in 1989 and a capable goal-kicker booting 19 conversions and scoring six tries in his second top-grade season.
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Indifferent form saw Graham Mackay make only eleven appearances in Wests' run-on side in 1990 and at the end of that season he was swapped by Wests in the short-lived and controversial draft system which existed in Australian rugby league solely in the 1991 season.
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Graham Mackay was a member of the Panthers successful 1991 premiership side.
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Graham Mackay was 31st draft choice when snapped up by Penrith coach Phil Gould.
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Under Gould as State coach, Graham Mackay made his representative debut for New South Wales on the wing in game I of the 1992 State of Origin series.
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Graham Mackay scored two tries in a man-of-the-match performance on debut.
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Graham Mackay was chosen in Australia's World Cup squad at year's end, he did not play in the final.
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Graham Mackay regularly competed for a New South Wales wing spot against Andrew Ettingshausen, gaining selection in State of Origin game III of 1993 and game I of 1994.
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Graham Mackay quit the Panthers at the end of 1994 to link with his former coach Gould at Easts.
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Graham Mackay spent the 1995 season there and returned to good goal-kicking form booting 20 goals in just 13 games.
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Graham Mackay played for them at centre, scoring a try, and kicking a goal in their 2001 Super League Grand Final victory against Wigan.
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Graham Mackay started coaching the Ormeau Shearers on the Gold Coast in 2012.