[2] McLuckie made the combined Queensland-Northern Territory State of Origin squad in 1993 but only played seven games for Brisbane and was delisted at the end of the season.
[2] He returned to Southport, for which he won a Joe Grant Medal in 2000, as the best player in the AFL Queensland State League grand final.
So when Steve McLuckie, 45 days beyond his 19th birthday in front of 26,166 perochial Collingwood fans, played his first game for the Brisbane Bears at Victoria Park in Round 2 1992 it was a big assignment.
He played 70 games with West Adelaide in the SANFL from 1994-98, twice finishing third in the B&F before returning ‘home’ to Southport in 1999 to close out his career with back-to-back flags in 1999-2000, thereby completing a rare U19-Reserves-Seniors hat-trick.
Played for Queensland against Victoria in ’99 and won the Joe Grant Medal as best afield in his last game in the 2000 QSFL Grand Final, putting a fairytale full stop to his outstanding career when he kicked four goals off the wing.