Michael Morgan

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Height:: 185 cm

Weight:: 94 kg

Age:: 26

Date of Birth:: 27 December 1991

Birthplace:: Townsville, QLD

Nickname:: Morgo

Debut Club:: North Queensland Cowboys
Opposition:: Sydney Roosters

Date:: 10 May 2010
Round:: 9

Previous Club:: -

Junior Club:: Townsville Brothers

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Michael Morgan first pulled on a Cowboys jersey in round one of the 2009 Toyota Cup season, playing his first three games in the NYC at hooker before finding a home in the halves.

After playing 19 games in 2009, he made another 19 Toyota Cup appearances in 2010 either side of his NRL debut as an 18-year-old in round nine.

Morgan ended up with 60 matches on his NYC record, including some as stand-in captain and the 2011 Grand Final against the NZ Warriors, and he had also turned out in eight NRL games by the end of 2011.

A hat-trick in the home elimination final against the Brisbane Broncos was the highlight of his 2012 campaign, which featured another 11 NRL matches.

Morgan was included in the Queensland Emerging Origin squad for the first time for 2013 and scored a vital try for the Mackay Cutters in their Intrust Super Cup Grand Final win against Easts.

Selection in the Kangaroos’ Four Nations train-on squad and the Australian Prime Minister’s XIII showed just how far Morgan came in season 2014.

Thrown into the fullback role, he was a revelation and ended up playing all 26 matches in the No.1 jersey, missing his only minutes when he came off with concussion in the elimination final against Brisbane.

Morgan began the 2015 season in the fullback position once again, but returned to the halves in round 3 and went on to have his best season to date, forming a lethal halves combination with Johnathan Thurston.

He scored an impressive 15 tries in his 23 matches, the most tries for a half in the NRL in 2015, and also managed 11 offloads, 20 line breaks and an average of 84 running metres, and was rewarded with a nomination for five-eighth of the year, along with his first premiership.

Morgan also got his first taste of state representative football in 2015, filling in as Queensland’s bench utility in game one of the State of Origin series.

He held his position in the side for the remaining two games and scored a try in Queensland’s 52-6 victory in the decider at Suncorp Stadium.

In 2016, the gifted footballer produced another consistent season, punctuated by moments of brilliance, and missed just five club games through injury and Origin duty.

Morgan debuted for Australia in the May Test and was also part of the Kangaroos squad to contest the 2016 Four Nations tournament.

The 2017 NRL season – or more to the pointed, the back half of it – was all about Michael Morgan.

Having retained his Australian jersey for the annual May Test against the Kiwis, Morgan was looking for more consistency in his game as the Cowboys battled a rising injury toll.

When the Cowboys lost talismanic co-captain Johnathan Thurston for the remainder of the season following the second State of Origin match in June, Morgan took on the mantle of the team’s chief playmaker.

Fresh from a star turn in the Origin series, Morgan made every post a winner in the back half of 2018, combining with mid-season recruit Te Maire Martin to lead the Cowboys all the way to an unlikely grand final berth against the Storm.

Morgan ended up finishing second in Dally M Medal voting to Storm, Queensland and Australian skipper Cameron Smith, and second behind teammate Jason Taumalolo in the Cowboys’ Paul Bowman Medal for player of the year. He and Taumalolo shared the coveted peer-voted Players’ Player award.

Playing in the unfamiliar role of halfback, Morgan shone week-in, week-out, with his vastly improved kicking game a standout feature of his play.

The stellar season was rewarded with selection at five-eighth in the Kangaroos team to contest the 2017 Rugby League World Cup, with the gifted 25-year-old playing in two of the Roos’ opening three pool games.

Appearances: 140
Tries: 54

Appearances: 11

Scoring

Tries: 1

Kicking

Forced Drop Outs: 2
Average Kicking Metres: 119.2

Attack

Try Assists: 8
Line Break Assists: 9

Passing

Offloads: 5
Receipts: 388

Defence

Tackles Made: 132
Tackle Efficiency

Running Metres

Average Running Metres: 65.8
Total Running Metres: 724

Fantasy

Total Points: 343
Average Points: 31.2

2018 Season - By Round
Summary															Passing		Defence		Running Metres
Round	Opponent		Score	Position	Minutes Played	Tries	Goals	Points	Kicking Metres	Forced Drop Outs	Try Assists	Linebreaks	Tackle Breaks	Post Contact Metres	Offloads	Receipts	Tackles Made	Missed Tackles	Total Running Metres	Hit Up Running Metres	Kick Return Metres
3	Storm	Lost	30 - 14	Five-Eighth	80	-	-	-	38	-	-	-	-	9	-	36	9	1	40	-	-
4	Panthers	Lost	14 - 33	Five-Eighth	80	-	-	-	182	-	2	-	-	12	1	36	7	2	48	-	20
5	Warriors	Lost	22 - 12	Five-Eighth	80	-	-	-	59	-	1	-	-	21	-	43	17	6	73	-	-
6	Bulldogs	Lost	10 - 27	Five-Eighth	80	-	-	-	256	1	2	-	1	17	1	47	22	1	61	-	-
7	Titans	Won	26 - 14	Five-Eighth	80	-	-	-	282	-	1	-	-	27	-	39	13	2	60	-	-
8	Raiders	Lost	8 - 18	Five-Eighth	80	-	-	-	71	1	-	1	3	22	-	32	10	2	92	-	-
9	Panthers	Won	20 - 26	Five-Eighth	80	1	-	4	110	-	-	1	1	3	-	29	18	6	17	-	-
10	Wests Tigers	Lost	20 - 12	Five-Eighth	80	-	-	-	147	-	-	1	1	14	1	24	29	4	56	-	-
11	Rabbitohs	Lost	19 - 20	Five-Eighth	80	-	-	1	41	-	2	-	5	17	-	40	2	1	80	7	1
12	Storm	Lost	6 - 7	Fullback	80	-	-	-	98	-	-	-	6	36	2	47	3	2	157	8	68
15	Warriors	Lost	16 - 23	Fullback	27	-	-	-	28	-	-	-	-	12	-	15	2	1	36	-	6

Career By Season
															Passing		Defence		Running Metres			Fantasy
	Year	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	Win %	Tries	Goals	Points	Kicking Metres	Kicking Metres Average	Goal Conversion Rate	Forced Drop Outs	Try Assists	Offloads	Receipts	Tackles Made	Missed Tackles	Total Running Metres	Average Running Metres	Kick Return Metres	Total Points	Average Points
Cowboys	2010	4	2	2	-	50%	2	-	8	235	58.75	-	-	3	2	-	116	19	145	36.25	-	-	-
Cowboys	2011	4	2	2	-	50%	-	-	-	212	53.00	-	-	1	1	-	54	16	77	19.25	-	-	-
Cowboys	2012	14	10	4	-	71%	4	-	16	381	27.21	-	-	5	8	-	233	41	941	67.21	34	-	-
Cowboys	2013	9	2	7	-	22%	2	-	8	766	85.16	-	2	3	7	273	165	28	596	66.24	-	-	-
Cowboys	2014	26	15	11	-	58%	10	-	40	764	29.40	-	7	17	15	846	134	35	2,774	106.73	1,227	620	23.8
Cowboys	2015	23	16	7	-	70%	15	-	60	1,505	65.44	-	3	12	11	691	381	34	1,938	84.26	133	1,018	44.3
Cowboys	2016	22	13	9	-	59%	9	-	36	1,846	83.92	-	4	20	13	678	376	53	1,535	69.77	7	890	40.4
Cowboys	2017	27	16	11	-	59%	11	-	46	7,042	260.81	-	18	22	25	1494	351	73	2,220	82.25	48	1,285	47.6
Cowboys	2018	11	2	9	-	18%	1	-	5	1,311	119.22	-	2	8	5	388	132	28	724	65.85	96	343	31.2

Career Overall
Summary									Scoring				Kicking					Attack			Passing			Defence			Running Metres				Fantasy
		Year Start	Year End	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	Win %		Tries	Goals	Points		Kicking Metres	Kicking Metres Average	Goal Conversion Rate	Forced Drop Outs		Try Assists		Offloads	Receipts		Tackles Made	Missed Tackles		Total Running Metres	Average Running Metres	Kick Return Metres		Total Points	Average Points
	Cowboys	2010	2018	140	78	62	-	-		54	-	219		14,064	100.45	-	-		91		87	-		1,942	327		10,952	78.00	1,547		4,193	35.5