Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Born
- Saturday, 4th March, 1967
- Current Age
- 57 years and 100 days
Biography
Rock-solid defence, coupled with a growing confidence with the ball, made second row forward Neil Piccinelli one of I’warra’s most valuable players during the club's 1992 semi-final campaign. The Helensburg junior was named the Steelers’ player of the year in 1993. After giving great service to the club Piccinelli signed a Super League contract in 1996. Linking with the Hunter Mariners for the divided 1997 season he joined defending premiers Newcastle after the Super League club folded. In 1999 he walked away from a six-figure contract with Souths and announced his retirement due to family commitments.
- ALAN WHITICKER
Playing Career Statistics
All statistics shown in this section are based only on data available in the RLP database, and are not necessarily a complete and/or 100% accurate representation of a player's career. This information should be used as a guide only. If you see a question mark (?), it denotes that the figure is not available.
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Competitions | |||||||||||||||
| Competition | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
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| NSWRL/ARL/Super League/NRL Premiership | - | 188 | 40 | 23 | - | 206 | 92 | 90 | 6 | 48.94% | List | ||||
| NSWRL/ARL/Super League/NRL Finals | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | 0 | 20.00% | List | ||||
| Midweek Cup | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Challenge Cup AU | - | 9 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.56% | List | ||||
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NSWRL/ARL/Super League/NRL Premiership - By Year | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Illawarra | NSWRL 1989 Winfield Cup | 16 | 3 | - | - | 12 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 6.25% | List | ||||
| Illawarra | NSWRL 1990 Winfield Cup | 16 | 3 | - | - | 12 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Illawarra | NSWRL 1991 Winfield Cup | 21 | 5 | - | - | 20 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 57.14% | List | ||||
| Illawarra | NSWRL 1992 Winfield Cup | 17 | 2 | - | - | 8 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 52.94% | List | ||||
| Illawarra | NSWRL 1993 Winfield Cup | 22 | 4 | 11 | / | 15 | 73.33% | - | 38 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 54.55% | List | |
| Illawarra | NSWRL 1994 Winfield Cup | 22 | 1 | 10 | / | 27 | 37.04% | - | 24 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 50.00% | List | |
| Illawarra | ARL 1995 Winfield Cup | 17 | 6 | - | - | 24 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 58.82% | List | ||||
| Illawarra | ARL 1996 Optus Cup | 14 | 4 | - | - | 16 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 28.57% | List | ||||
| Hunter | Super League 1997 Telstra Cup | 17 | 6 | 2 | / | 7 | 28.57% | - | 28 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 41.18% | List | |
| Newcastle | 1998 NRL Premiership | 26 | 6 | - | - | 24 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 69.23% | List | ||||
NSWRL/ARL/Super League/NRL Premiership - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Illawarra | 1989-96 | 145 | 28 | 21 | / | 42 | 50.00% | - | 154 | 67 | 73 | 5 | 46.21% | List | |
| Hunter | 1997 | 17 | 6 | 2 | / | 7 | 28.57% | - | 28 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 41.18% | List | |
| Newcastle | 1998 | 26 | 6 | - | - | 24 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 69.23% | List | ||||
| Overall | 1989-1998 | 188 | 40 | 23 | / | 49 | 46.94% | 0 | 206 | 92 | 90 | 6 | 48.94% | List | |
Contributions:
Rugby League Tables, Andrew Ferguson, AJ Lucantonio, Alan Katzmann, Shawn Dollin, Greg Fiveash, Paul Carter, Terry Liberopoulos, Max Turner, Steven Russo
Sources:
David Middleton's Rugby League Yearbook (1987-88 to present)
Your Say
21/03/2011
One of the most underrated players of his era, a high quality footballer. One of the Illawarra Steelers' greatest ever players.
25/10/2012
Best player to not play state of origin or Australia.
25/09/2013
Without question one of the most underrated players I have seen play the game.
15/09/2019
Ono of the good guys of the game always well behaved a good role model for the game and a good person.
18/02/2023
My favorite Steeler of all time. Absolutely phenomenal workrate in both defence and attack, and surprisingly skilflul with the ball. When I got a Steelers jersey for a gift, I had his original number 11 put on the back. When he changed to number 12, I was quite upset!
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