Wagga Wagga Leagues Club was a facility founded in 1955 by the Wagga Magpies Football Club in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. [1] [2] [3]
Wagga Wagga Leagues Club was a facility founded in 1955 by the Wagga Magpies Football Club in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. [1] [2] [3]
In 1955, Magpies Football Club purchased an 8.5-acre (3.4 ha) block in Gurwood Street from the Wagga Wagga War Services Home Commission, who constructed a temporary clubhouse. [1] A new Rugby Leagues Club, Eric Weissel Oval and Tennis courts was constructed in 1959 with a second storey constructed on the club building in 1964. [1]
2003 Wagga Wagga Leagues Club president, Brian Lawrence announced that the club was in $4 million in debt. March 2003 Queensland Clubs Management and Melbourne Storm owner John Ribot offered a $4 million package to clear the club's debts however the founding president of the Wagga Wagga Leagues club, Jack Murphy was concerned that the club's debts was from poor management. [4] 20 March 2003 disgruntled leagues club members requested an explanation from the leagues club's board of directors about the $4 million rescue package offered by John Ribot. [5]
1 April 2003 extraordinary meeting by disgruntled members which was to call on the removal of four leagues directors was postponed after the Leagues Club signing the deal from John Ribot. [6] New South Wales Gaming Minister Grant McBride was concerned about the rescue deal by Queensland Clubs Management who ordered a review of commercial arrangements of the deal. [7] 1 August 2003, Leagues Club president dismissed the Prime News report that the club's board members voted for the club to be placed under voluntary administration and also denied that Queensland Clubs Management walked away from the deal, [8] however the club was placed under an administrator (Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu) after the "belief the club is insolvent, or likely to become insolvent". [9]
28 June 2004 Leagues club Board member Gary Barton announced that Queensland Club Management would withdraw its rescue deal and would meet with creditors to look at options for the club's future. [10] On 28 June 2004 the club announced that its doors would close for the final time after the Queensland Clubs Management withdrew its financial support. [11] 5 July 2004 creditors voted to place the Leagues Club under liquidation after the club lost its financial support. [12]
In 2005, the Wagga Magpies merged with Turvey Park Lions to form the South City Bulls.
In April 2005, the Leagues Club building, Eric Weissel Oval and Allen Staunton Oval was sold for $1.3 million to a private consortium. [13] [14]
In November 2006 New South Wales Board of Studies granted a 12-month provisional registration for a Christian school to set up in the former Leagues Club building. [15]
The Wests Tigers are an Australian professional rugby league football team, based in the Inner West and Western Sydney. They have competed in the National Rugby League since being formed at the end of the 1999 NRL season as a joint-venture club between the Balmain Tigers and the Western Suburbs Magpies. The Wests Tigers started playing in the 2000 NRL season and they won their maiden premiership in 2005. It is one of only two clubs that has never lost a Grand Final in which it has participated. The club also won the World Sevens in 2004.
Wagga Wagga is a major regional city in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Murrumbidgee River, with an urban population of more than 56,000 as of June 2018, Wagga Wagga is the state's largest inland city, and is an important agricultural, military, and transport hub of Australia. The ninth largest inland city in Australia, Wagga Wagga is located midway between the two largest cities in Australia—Sydney and Melbourne—and is the major regional centre for the Riverina and South West Slopes regions.
Group 9 is a rugby league competition based in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, and surrounding areas. The competition is played in five grades, with these being Under 17s, Under 19s, Women's League-Tag, Reserve-Grade and First-Grade.
The Western Suburbs Magpies is an Australian rugby league football club based in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. Formed in 1908, Wests, as they are commonly referred to, were one of the nine foundation clubs of the first New South Wales Rugby League competition in Australia. The club, as a sole entity, departed the top-flight competition in 1999 after forming a 50–50 joint venture with Balmain Tigers to form the Wests Tigers. The club currently fields sides in the NSW State Cup, Ron Massey Cup (Opens), S.G. Ball Cup and Harold Matthews Cup competitions.
ABC TV Plus is an Australian free-to-air television channel owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and part of its ABC Television network. The channel broadcasts a range of general entertainment programming. Between the hours of 5am and 7.30pm daily, the channel's bandwidth is used for the ABC Kids channel for young children.
The Souths Logan Magpies, more commonly referred to by their former names Southern Suburbs Magpies, or South Brisbane Magpies, or often simply referred to as Souths, are a rugby league football club based in the southern suburbs of Brisbane, Australia. They play in the Intrust Super Cup, and although officially are a newer club, they have roots tracing back to as early as 1910, the second year of rugby league in Queensland.
Braith Anastasakis, commonly known as Braith Anasta, is a Greek-Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a five-eighth and lock in the 2000s and 2010s. He was both an Australian and Greek international. He played for New South Wales in the State of Origin series. Anasta played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, with whom he won the 2004 NRL Premiership, the Sydney Roosters and the Wests Tigers.
Marrara Oval, currently branded TIO Stadium under a naming rights agreement, is a sports ground in Darwin, the capital of Australia's Northern Territory. The ground primarily hosts Australian rules football, cricket, and rugby league.
Brett Hodgson is an Australian rugby league coach who is the head coach of Hull FC in the Super League and a former professional player who played in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.
John Ribot, also known by the nickname of "Reebs", is an Australian sports administrator, former rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 1980s. Once a Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative, Ribot was the 1980 NSWRFL season's equal top try-scorer. Also a member of the 1982 "Invincibles" Kangaroo touring squad, he played club football in Brisbane for Fortitude Valley, Wests and Redcliffe, and in Sydney for Newtown, Wests and Manly-Warringah.
Nikola "Nik" Mrdja is an Australian former soccer player, who played as a striker. Mrdja had a career spanning several National Soccer League (NSL) and A-League clubs from 1998 to 2011, as well as a brief spell in Sweden with AIK in 2004. Mrdja made one appearance for Australia, in a friendly against Argentina in 2007.
Tommy Raudonikis was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach. He played 40 International games and World Cup games as Australia representative halfback and captained his country in two matches of the 1973 Kangaroo tour.
Australian rules football has been played in New South Wales continuously since the 1870s, though for much of the 20th century it was a minor sport compared to the rugby football codes and association football. There are strongholds in the Riverina, Broken Hill/Barrier region, the far south coast and a small but strong presence in the Newcastle and Hunter region. Among many of the state's population less familiar with the sport, particularly in Sydney, people refer to it as "AFL" as this is the name that is promoted by the governing body the Australian Football League.
Eric Weissel Oval was a multi-use stadium in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. It was named after local rugby league footballer Eric Weissel and opened in 1959. It was used mostly for rugby league matches and had a capacity of 10,000 people, with a record crowd of 11,685 recorded on 20 July 1988 for the Australia vs Papua New Guinea as part of the 1985 - 1988 Rugby League World Cup where the Aussies defeated the Kumuls by a then world record score of 70–8. The oval has hosted City vs Country (ARL), National Rugby League premiership and trial games, Brumbies vs Waikato Chiefs.
ABC TV, formerly known as ABC1, is an Australian national public television network. It is owned and operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and is the flagship ABC Television network. The headquarters of ABC TV channel and the ABC are in Ultimo, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales.
Eric Weissel (;) (1903–1972) was an Australian rugby league footballer, a state and national representative goal-kicking five-eighth. He played his club career in country New South Wales and is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.
Kelvin Joseph "Kel" O'Shea was an Australian representative rugby league footballer, a second-rower from Queensland whose club career was played with the Western Suburbs Magpies in Sydney. He is rated among the nation's best players of the 20th century.
Anthony Griffin is an Australian professional rugby league coach who is the Head coach of the St George Illawarra Dragons in the NRL and a former rugby league footballer.
Orren Stephenson is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club and the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
The Brisbane and District Women's Rugby League is one of the main Women's rugby league competitions in Australia.
Coordinates: 35°6′39.80″S147°21′6.80″E / 35.1110556°S 147.3518889°E
