Strong Support With Kangaroos Set To Celebrate 1994 Premiership Success

A record crowd, an intercept and a thrilling finish.

The 1994 Group Nine grand final had it all and Kangaroos will celebrate their success this weekend.

Now 30 years on, all but one of the premiership-winning side is set to return to Wagga to watch the 2024 Kangaroos take on Brothers at Equex Centre on Saturday.

An intercept try from fleet-footed winger Steve Davis leading into half-time set Kangaroos on their way but they still had to hold off a resurgent Gundagai outfit.

It could have been a different story if Tigers captain-coach Steve Funnell found touch with a penalty kick with less than two minutes to go.

Instead Kangaroos held on for a 24-20 victory.

It was Gundagai's second straight grand final loss and was to be the second of nine grand finals the club lost before their drought-breaking premiership in 2015.

Chas Mascini was named man of the match in the 1994 grand final.

He recalled how the side led by Peter McArthur had to go the hard way just to make it through to the grand final.

"We played Temora over in Temora in a qualifying final, second verse third, in the first week of the finals and got beat 52-0," Mascini said.

"We played them two weeks later to get into the grand final and were down 10-0 to get into the grand final after about 10 minutes but ended up winning 34-10."

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