Career
McLean primarily plays at property McLean is known as being one of the players involved in the tackle that resulted in Alex McKinnon suffering a broken neck, for which McLean received a seven-match suspension by the NRL Judiciary. Born in Sydney, New South Wales, McLean is of Māori descent and played his junior rugby league for the Young Cherrypickers.
He was then signed by the Canberra Raiders and played for them in the Harold Matthews Cup before being signed by the Melbourne Storm.
He played for the Storm"s New York City team from 2009 to 2011 and was a part of the their 2009 New York City premiership winning team 2013 On 10 June 2013, McLean re-signed with the Storm for a further 3 years, keeping him at the club until the end of the 2016 season.
McLean finished his debut year in the NRL with him playing in 14 matches and scoring a try for the Storm. Early reports were that McKinnon was unlikely to walk again.
McLean expressed his sympathies to McKinnon through a Facebook post that read "Best wishes to Alex McKinnon, I genuinely hope you"re alright and have a safe recovery".
On 2 April, McLean appeared before the NRL judiciary. McLean"s lawyer Nick Ghabar, urged the panel to remove any emotion from the case and to exercise their common sense as former players, to accept the tackle was an accident, however, his client was given a seven-match suspension. A devastated McLean could not bear to look at numerous replays of the tackle.
He finished off the season having played in 16 matches and scoring 3 tries for the Storm.
2015 On 24 March, McLean re-signed with Storm for a further three years, keeping him at the club to the end of the 2018 season. He finished off the 2015 season having played in 15 matches for the Storm.
