Allan Fitzgibbon

Allan Fitzgibbon

Personal information
Full name	Allan Fitzgibbon
Playing information
Position	Lock, Five-eighth
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 1968–70 Balmain Tigers 7 0 0 21 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 1968 NSW Firsts 1 0 0 0 0 1971 NSW Country Firsts 1 0 0 0 0
Coaching information
Club Years Team Gms W D L W% 1982–83 Illawarra Steelers 52 14 0 38 27 1988–91 Cronulla Sharks 92 50 37 5 54 1995 Illawarra Steelers 18 8 1 9 44 Total 162 72 38 52 44
Source: Rugby League Project

Allan Fitzgibbon is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach. He played for the Balmain Tigers between 1968 and 1970, and appeared in the 1969 Grand Final where the Tigers won in an upset against the South Sydney Rabbitohs. His son, Craig Fitzgibbon became an international representative rugby league player.

Fitzgibbon coached Dapto between 1971 and 1981, and represented Country in 1973. In 1982, he became the first coach of the Illawarra Steelers and guided the team through their first two seasons in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership.^[1] He would also coach the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks between 1988 and 1991. In 1995, he became the caretaker coach of the Steelers following the sacking of Graham Murray.

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