Career
He moved to Western Australia and was selected to play in the final two 2006-2007 Pura Cup season, taking 4 wickets for 76 runs in his first-class cricket debut. McLauchlan was contracted with Western Australia for the 2007/08 season, after his impressive debut performance and performing well for Western Australian Grade Cricket team Scarborough Cricket Club throughout the previous summer. He played a number of List A and Twenty20 games for Western Australia in during the 2007/08 season, but was not offered a contract for 2008/09.
Returning to Sydney, he continued to play cricket in the Sydney Cricket Association, but has (at the end of season 2014/15) been suspended a record ten times for a wide range of Code of Conduct Breaches mostly involving crude and/or offensive verbal attacks on opposing players and umpires.
At the end of the 2014/15 season McLaughlan moved away from Sydney Grade Cricket taking up a role playing in the First Grade competition in Newcastle. Within only a few games of that season"s start he was once again in hot water with match officials being cited for a range of abuse of umpire issues.