Graeme O'Grady

Infobox rugby league biography
playername = Graeme O'Grady
fullname = Graeme O'Grady


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position = Five-eighth, Lock
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club1 = Western Suburbs Magpies
year1start = 1974, 1976
year1end = 1979
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club2 = Newtown Jets
year2start = 1980
year2end = 1982
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club3 = St. George Dragons
year3start = 1983
year3end = 1985
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yearAstart = 1981
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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. [cite web|publisher="Rugby League Tables"|title=State Of Origin - Game 1, 1981 |url=http://stats.rleague.com/rl/soo/game2.html |accessdate=2007-12-07]

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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