Graham Appo, Date of Birth

    

Graham Appo

Papua New Guinea rugby league player

Date of Birth: 11-Jul-1974

Profession: rugby league player

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Graham Appo

  • Graham Appo (born 11 July 1974) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of Papua New Guinean descent of the 1990s and 2000s.
  • He played all throughout the back-line during his long career and was also a talented goal-kicker.
  • Appo started playing first grade club football in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership for the Canberra Raiders in 1994, winning the club's rookie of the year award.
  • Early in the 1998 season he joined the Adelaide Rams for their final season in the NRL, setting club records for most tries in a match (3), most tries in a season (12), most goals in a match (8), most points in a match (24) and most points for a season (116).
  • He then moved to the Sydney City Roosters and later the North Queensland Cowboys for a season each. Appo embarked on a Super League career after the 2000 NRL season.
  • In England he played for the Huddersfield Giants and Warrington Wolves.
  • Appo's best year came in 2003 when, covering at stand-off for the injured Lee Briers, he scored 23 tries for Warrington, in one game scoring a total of 34 points which was the second highest individual points haul for a player in Super League at the time.
  • He was later named in that year's Super League Dream Team.

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