Career
He represented both Australia and Queensland. A prop from Ingham, Queensland, Dowling started his career with the Wynnum-Manly Seagulls. At the end of their 1986 season, he went on the 1986 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France.
He was named the 1989 Brisbane Broncos season"s player of the year.
Injury forced him into retirement in 1991. Greg Dowling played Left-prop, id est (that is) number 8, in Wigan"s 34-8 victory over Warrington in the 1985 Lancashire Cup final during the 1985-1986 season at Knowsley Road, Saint Helens, on Sunday 13 October 1985.
Greg Dowling played Left-prop, id est (that is) number 8, in Wigan"s 18-4 victory over Hull Kingston Rovers in the John Player Special Trophy final during the 1985-1986 season at Elland Road, Leeds on Saturday 11 January 1986. After playing he became a commentator for the American Broadcasting Company and a columnist for the Cairns Post.
After moving on from his McDonalds franchise on the tablelands in 2008, he began his retirement.
Soon realizing this was not for him he started new project which started at the end of 2009, an Oporto franchise in the Willows Shopping Centre Townsville. Greg Dowling is perhaps best remembered for scoring a freakish try during the 1984 State of Origin series. In Game 2 of the series, played on a wet and muddy Sydney Cricket Ground, Qld captain Wally Lewis put up a chip-kick only metres out from the try line.
The ball hit the crossbar on the full and bounced back down.
He is also remembered for his sideline fight with New Zealand prop Kevin Tamati during the first test of the 1985 Transport-Tasman series at Language Park after both players had been sent to the sin-bin by French referee Julien Rascagneres. Both players received an 8-day suspension as a result of the fight.
