Joe Picker (born 7 December 1987) is an Australian former professional

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...

footballer from

Crookwell, New South Wales Crookwell is a small town located in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, in the Upper Lachlan Shire. At the , Crookwell had a population of 2,641. The town is at a relatively high altitude of 887 metres and there are several s ...

. He previously played for the

Canberra Raiders The Canberra Raiders are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the national capital city of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. They have competed in Australasia's elite rugby league competition, the National Rugby ...

and

South Sydney Rabbitohs The South Sydney Rabbitohs are a professional Australian rugby league club based in Redfern, a suburb of inner-southern Sydney, New South Wales. They participate in the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership and are one of nine existing tea ...

in the

National Rugby League The National Rugby League (NRL) is an Australasian rugby league club competition which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand. The NRL formed in 1998 as a joint partnership ...

. Picker has represented the Prime Minister's XIII and Australian Schoolboys. Picker's position was in the . Picker was a part of the South Sydney squad that won the 2014 NRL Premiership but did not play in any finals matches or the grand final itself.

Professional playing career

Canberra Raiders

After a break-out season in 2008 picker was named on the bench in the Prime Minister's XIII and scored a try. Picker went on to play 110 times for the

in the

NRL The National Rugby League (NRL) is an Australasian rugby league club competition which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand. The NRL formed in 1998 as a joint partnership ...

South Sydney Rabbitohs

On 18 November 2013, Picker signed with the

for the

2014 NRL season The 2014 NRL season was the 107th season of professional rugby league in Australia and the 17th season of the National Rugby League in Australia and New Zealand. The season started in New Zealand, for the Auckland Nines, replacing the Rugby Lea ...

. Picker played his first match for South Sydney in the 2014 Charity Shield, scoring a try.Rabbitohs thump the Dragons 38-20 in Charity Shield
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Personal life

His younger brothers

Michael Picker Michael Picker (born 14 June 1989) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2010s for the Canberra Raiders in the National Rugby League. He is the younger brother of Joe Picker and younger brother Ben Picke ...

and Ben Picker both play for Canberra.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Picker, Joe 1987 births Australian rugby league players Canberra Raiders players Mount Pritchard Mounties players Prime Minister's XIII players South Sydney Rabbitohs players Rugby league second-rows Rugby league locks Living people Rugby league players from New South Wales