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</style><table class="infobox vcard" style="width:25em; line-height: 1.5em"><caption class="infobox-title fn" style="font-size: 125%;">Darrell Trindall</caption><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><div style="background: #b0c4de; width:100%;">Personal information</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1972-02-16</span>) </span>16 February 1972<br><a href="Narrabri" title="Narrabri">Narrabri</a>, <a href="New_South_Wales" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a>, Australia</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><div style="background: #b0c4de; width:100%;">Playing information</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Height</th><td class="infobox-data">172 cm (5 ft 8 in)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Weight</th><td class="infobox-data">72 kg (11 st 5 lb)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Position</th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="Five-eighth" title="Five-eighth">Five-eighth</a>, <a href="Rugby_league_positions#Halfback" title="Rugby league positions">Halfback</a>, <a href="Fullback_(rugby_league)" title="Fullback (rugby league)">Fullback</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">
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<th style="background: #EBF5FF; text-align: center" colspan="7">Club
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<th style="width: 6.5em">Years
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<th style="width: 16em">Team
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<th style="width: 1.5em; text-align: center"><abbr title="Played">Pld</abbr>
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<th style="width: 1.5em; text-align: center"><abbr title="Tries">T</abbr>
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<th style="width: 1.5em; text-align: center"><abbr title="Goals">G</abbr>
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<th style="width: 1.5em; text-align: center"><abbr title="Field goals">FG</abbr>
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<th style="width: 1.5em; text-align: center"><abbr title="Points">P</abbr>
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<td style="white-space:nowrap">1990–99
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<td><a href="South_Sydney_Rabbitohs" title="South Sydney Rabbitohs">South Sydney</a>
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<td style="text-align: center">150
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<td style="text-align: center">44
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<td style="text-align: center">73
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<td style="text-align: center">6
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<td style="text-align: center">328
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<td style="white-space:nowrap">1994–95
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<td><a href="Sheffield_Eagles" title="Sheffield Eagles">Sheffield Eagles</a>
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<td style="text-align: center">19
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<td style="text-align: center">0
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<td style="text-align: center">3
</td>
<td style="text-align: center">0
</td>
<td style="text-align: center">6
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<td style="white-space:nowrap">2000
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<td><a href="St_Helens_R.F.C." title="St Helens R.F.C.">St Helens</a>
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<td style="text-align: center">2
</td>
<td style="text-align: center">0
</td>
<td style="text-align: center">0
</td>
<td style="text-align: center">0
</td>
<td style="text-align: center">0
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<td style="white-space:nowrap">2001–02
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<td><a href="Canterbury_Bulldogs" class="mw-redirect" title="Canterbury Bulldogs">Canterbury Bulldogs</a>
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<td style="text-align: center">21
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<td style="text-align: center">4
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<td style="text-align: center">0
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<td style="text-align: center">0
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<td style="text-align: center">16
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<td style="font-weight:bold">Total
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<td style="font-weight:bold;text-align:center">192
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<td style="font-weight:bold;text-align:center">48
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<td style="font-weight:bold;text-align:center">76
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<td style="font-weight:bold;text-align:center">6
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<td style="font-weight:bold;text-align:center">350
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<th style="width: 16em">Team
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<th style="width: 1.5em; text-align: center"><abbr title="Played">Pld</abbr>
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<th style="width: 1.5em; text-align: center"><abbr title="Tries">T</abbr>
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<th style="width: 1.5em; text-align: center"><abbr title="Goals">G</abbr>
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<th style="width: 1.5em; text-align: center"><abbr title="Field goals">FG</abbr>
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<th style="width: 1.5em; text-align: center"><abbr title="Points">P</abbr>
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<td style="white-space:nowrap">1992
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<td><a href="Indigenous_All_Stars_(rugby_league)" title="Indigenous All Stars (rugby league)">Indigenous All Stars</a>
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<td style="text-align: center">6
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</tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="text-align:right;">Source: <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Craig_Trindall" title="Craig Trindall">Craig Trindall</a> (brother)<br><a href="Steve_Trindall" title="Steve Trindall">Steve Trindall</a> (brother)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">
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<p><b>Darrell Wayne 'Tricky' Trindall</b> (born 16 February 1972) is an Australian former <a href="Rugby_league" title="Rugby league">rugby league</a> footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s.
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<p>Trindall was born in <a href="Narrabri" title="Narrabri">Narrabri</a>, <a href="New_South_Wales" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a>, Australia.
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<p>He played for the <a href="South_Sydney_Rabbitohs" title="South Sydney Rabbitohs">South Sydney Rabbitohs</a> for ten seasons between 1990 and 1999, <a href="Canterbury-Bankstown_Bulldogs" title="Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs">Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs</a> for two seasons between 2001 and 2002, <a href="Sheffield_Eagles" title="Sheffield Eagles">Sheffield Eagles</a> in 1994 and <a href="St_Helens_R.F.C." title="St Helens R.F.C.">St Helens</a> in 2000 as a <a href="Rugby_league_positions#Scrum-half" title="Rugby league positions">half-back</a>, <a href="Five-eighth" title="Five-eighth">five-eighth</a> and <a href="Fullback_(rugby_league)" title="Fullback (rugby league)">fullback</a>. He rose through the ranks to become club captain at <a href="South_Sydney_Rabbitohs" title="South Sydney Rabbitohs">South Sydney Rabbitohs</a> in 1997–98. He scored 328 points and played 150 first grade games with the Rabbitohs before finishing his <a href="NRL" class="mw-redirect" title="NRL">NRL</a> career at the <a href="Canterbury-Bankstown_Bulldogs" title="Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs">Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>He played for the <a href="Australian_Aboriginal_rugby_league_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian Aboriginal rugby league team">Australian Aboriginal team</a> at the <a href="1992_Pacific_Cup_(rugby_league)" title="1992 Pacific Cup (rugby league)">1992 Pacific Cup</a>, being named in the team of the tournament.<sup id="cite_ref-book_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-book-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 2003, Trindall played for one season in the <a href="Intrust_Super_Premiership_NSW" class="mw-redirect" title="Intrust Super Premiership NSW">Intrust Super Premiership NSW</a> for Newtown.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2></div>
<p>In August 2002, Trindall was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and high-range drink driving after an alleged assault in the Bulldogs club car park, which left a 36-year-old woman in hospital with head injuries.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In August 2003, Trindall pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting a long time friend at a pub in Sydney's CBD. Trindall allegedly punched the woman in the face three times and held her in a headlock four times. He then said "I'm a first grade footballer. Who are they going to believe, you or me?". Trindall later received a 12-month suspended jail sentence for the attack.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In April 2012, Trindall pleaded not guilty to assaulting a police officer in January 2012. The assault allegedly took place in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 2020, Trindall was remanded on charges of common assault, stalking or intimidating in a domestic violence context, and two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/darrell-trindall/summary.html">"Darrell Trindall – Career Stats & Summary – Rugby League Project"</a>. <i>rugbyleagueproject.org</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">8 November</span> 2019</span>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/not-so-tricky-or-believable-20030806-gdh7yj.html/">"Not so tricky or believable"</a>. <i>The Sydney Morning Herald</i>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFRaphael2022" class="citation web cs1">Raphael, Angie (22 July 2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/just-what-i-needed-former-nrl-star-darrell-wayne-trindall-responds-to-jail-time/news-story/607d1f689759b26faec48689fc856733">"'Just what I needed': Former NRL star Darrell Wayne Trindall responds to jail time"</a>. News.com.au.</cite></span>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080721070312/http://bulldogs.com.au/main.php?page=player&id=644">Bulldogs profile</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=10&num=16448">Saints Heritage Society profile</a></li></ul>
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