Graeme O'Grady

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Graeme O'Grady

Personal information
Full name	Graeme O'Grady
Club information
Position(s)	Five-eighth, Lock
Current club	Retired
Senior clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (points)
1974, 1976–1979 1980–1982 1983–1985	Western Suburbs Magpies Newtown Jets St. George Dragons	95 (72) 68 (53) 61 (20)
Representative teams
1981	New South Wales	1 (0)
* Professional club appearances and points counted for domestic first grade only.

Graeme O'Grady is an Australian former professional rugby league player in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition. He played for the Western Suburbs Magpies, Newtown Jets and St. George Dragons and one state representative appearance. O'Grady primarily played at lock.

After six games with Western Suburbs in 1974, O'Grady spent the following year at Wests Illawarra before being recalled to first grade in 1976.

In 1977, O'Grady was selected as the Amco Cup's Player of the Series after Wests defeated Easts in the Grand Final of the mid-week competition.

In 1980 he followed his former club-skipper Tommy Raudonikis to Newtown where he spent the next three seasons. He was a member of the Newtown side that went down by 11-20 to Parramatta in the 1981 Grand Final. He finished his first-grade career with three seasons with St George from 1983 and was a member of their side that lost the NSWRL season 1985 Grand Final by a single point to the Canterbury Bulldogs.

O'Grady was selected as a reserve to represent New South Wales in the sole Origin game of 1981. It was his only representative appearance. ^[1]

O'Grady retired to the Gold Coast in 1985 and captain-coached a Group 18 team, Cudgen, in 1986 and 1987.

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• Whiticker, Alan and Hudson, Glen (2007). The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players. Wetherill Park, New South Wales: Gary Allen Pty Ltd, 609. ISBN 9781877082931.