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Group 9 is a rugby league competition based in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, and surrounding areas.The competition is played in six grades, with these being Under 16s, Under 18s, Women's Tackle, Women's League-Tag, Reserve-Grade and First-Grade.
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West Wyalong joined the Group 9 Rugby League in the 1920s and won four premierships in the competition in 1938, 1960, 1965 and 1966. It was also during this period that West Wyalong competed for the famed Maher Cup , playing 152 challenge matches, fourth all-time only behind Cootamundra, Young and Gundagai.
The group was born from the Far South Rugby League and Wagga Rugby League, and was originally called Group 18 between 1934 and 1936. The Far South Rugby League comprised Albury, Holbrook, Henty, Culcairn, Tumbarumba, The Rock and Yerong Creek whilst Wagga Rugby League comprised Wagga Magpies, Wagga Old Boys, Borambola, Farm and Militia.
Young Cherrypickers was founded in 1923, along with the Group 9 competition itself. [1] Since its inception, the club has won seven first grade premierships in Group 9, in 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1974, 1984 and 1991. [citation needed] In 2022, the club made its first Grand Final appearance since 1998, though they lost 34-14 to the Gundagai ...
[8] [9] He was joined by fellow former NRL stars Etu Uaisele and Joel Monaghan. [10] In 2022, he left to coach the Eden Tigers in the Group 16 Rugby League competition. [11] In 2023, the club is captain-coached by Purtell's former Canberra Raiders teammate and ex-Sydney Roosters winger Justin Carney. [12] [13]
Group 20 was established in 1954, as the Wagga Wagga district competition, after many of those clubs left Group 9 and Group 13.. Griffith teams, and others based in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, previously played in both Group 17 and Group 9, prior to various rezonings and redistributions as the code's popularity grew throughout the first half of the 20th century.
Rugby league is the dominant winter sport in the eastern Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland. [46] The game is also among the predominant sports of Tonga [47] and is played in other Pacific nations such as Samoa and Fiji. Researchers have found that rugby league has been able to help with improving development in the islands. [48]