title: Grahame Buckley
text: # Grahame Buckley
  
  Grahame Arthur Buckley (1957–2016) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s.
  
  ## Playing career
  
  Buckley was graded at the St. George Dragons from Peakhurst J.R.L.F.C in 1977 and made his first-grade debut for the St George Dragons in Round 10 of the 1978 NSWRFL season. Buckley made 59 first grade appearances in total over, a span of seven seasons, which included being involved in the club's 1979 premiership campaign and was a much loved Dragons player of his era. He was a crowd favourite at Kogarah Jubilee Oval, and is remembered as a man who played above his weight.
  
  He later joined the Illawarra Steelers where he played one game during the 1986 season.
  
  ## Death
  
  After retiring, he later moved to Wauchope, New South Wales. Grahame Buckley was very well respected in the Wauchope rugby league and surf club community. He unfortunately suffered a fatal heart attack doing surf-boat training on Lake Cathie, New South Wales on 3 March 2016.
  
  ## Accolades
  
  His surf club, the Wauchope-Bonny Hills Surf Club have named their surf boat rower of the year in his memory.
  
  