The mighty North Tamworth Bears will be honoured for winning this year's Clayton Cup, at the Country Rugby League Player of the Year Awards in Sydney on Friday night.
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North Tamworth's 2019 captain-coach Scott Blanch, who relinquished the coaching role after the grand final, will lead a Bears contingent to the Ivy for the event.
The Clayton Cup is awarded annually to NSW country rugby league's top-grade side with the best record that year.
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North Tamworth beat Kootingal-Moonbi 40-4 in last month's grand final to claim their sixth-straight premiership and remain undefeated for the season.
It is the third time Norths have claimed the Clayton Cup (they also won in 1951 and 2014).
Only three other clubs have won the Cup three times: the Tweed Heads Seagulls, the Cobar Roosters and the Grafton Ghosts being the others.
Three other Group 4 clubs have secured Clayton Cups: the West Tamworth Robins (1937), Gunnedah (1973) and Werris Creek (1996).
Long-serving Bears president Jodie Cooper said winning the prestigious title again was one of the greatest-ever country rugby league achievements.
It's something special. And it's something that's deserved by a fine mob of young players.
- Jodie Cooper
It was a "great privilege" to secure it, he said, adding: "It's something special. And it's something that's deserved by a fine mob of young players."
Cooper said the achievement was reward for not only a highly talented side who delivered on that talent, but also for hard work on the training paddock and an entrenched winning culture.
He said: I've been down there [Jack Woolaston Oval] watching them train ... and half of them would be spewing, and Spitter's [former coach and 2019 trainer Brad McManus] telling 'em: 'That's why we win grand finals, fellas.'"