John Cross

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Playing Career

Vital Statistics

Born
Wednesday, 15th March, 1972
Current Age
52 years and 4 days

Known Family Links

Brother
Michael Cross

Biography

Mobile second row forward, the son of former St George player Greg Cross, captained the Steelers as a 20-year-old to a narrow 11-10 loss to Great Britain in 1992. The Port Kembla product lived up to that early promise when he was named as Steelers’ captain in the absence of Bob Lindner while on Test duty in NZ in 1993. The ensuing seasons regularly saw Cross as one of the club's best players but a planned move to Super League club Penrith in 1997 was blocked because of his ARL loyalty contract. Cross finally joined the Panthers in 1998 and the hard-working back-rower was integral to the club’s success in the early part of the 1999 season and when the club qualified for the semi-finals in 2000. He returned ‘home’ and played his final season with the merged St George I’warra club in 2003.
- ALAN WHITICKER

Playing Career Statistics

All statistics shown in this section are based only on data available in the RLP database, and are not necessarily a complete and/or 100% accurate representation of a player's career. This information should be used as a guide only. If you see a question mark (?), it denotes that the figure is not available.

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Competitions

Competition   App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
NRL 265 53 -   - 212 117 138 10 44.15% List
NRL Finals 6 1 -   - 4 1 5 0 16.67% List
City vs Country 1 - -   - - 0 1 0 0.00% List
Anzac Cup 1 - -   - - 1 0 0 100.00% List


Representative

Australia - By Team

Team Years App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
NSW Country 1995 1 - -   - - 0 1 0 0.00% List


Club Career

NRL/NSWRL - By Year

Team Season App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Illawarra NSWRL 1991 8 2 -   - 8 4 4 0 50.00% List
Illawarra NSWRL 1992 25 9 -   - 36 14 10 1 56.00% List
Illawarra NSWRL 1993 21 4 -   - 16 11 10 0 52.38% List
Illawarra NSWRL 1994 21 8 -   - 32 11 8 2 52.38% List
Illawarra ARL 1995 22 4 -   - 16 10 11 1 45.45% List
Illawarra ARL 1996 21 2 -   - 8 7 14 0 33.33% List
Illawarra ARL 1997 19 3 -   - 12 8 8 3 42.11% List
Penrith NRL 1998 18 7 -   - 28 7 9 2 38.89% List
Penrith NRL 1999 24 3 -   - 12 11 12 1 45.83% List
Penrith NRL 2000 26 5 -   - 20 14 12 0 53.85% List
Penrith NRL 2001 26 3 -   - 12 7 19 0 26.92% List
Penrith NRL 2002 15 1 -   - 4 5 10 0 33.33% List
St Geo Illa NRL 2003 19 2 -   - 8 8 11 0 42.11% List

NRL/NSWRL - By Team

Team Years App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Illawarra 1991-97 137 32 -   - 128 65 65 7 47.45% List
Penrith 1998-02 109 19 -   - 76 44 62 3 40.37% List
St Geo Illa 2003 19 2 -   - 8 8 11 0 42.11% List
Overall1991-2003 265 53 0   0 212 117 138 10 44.15% List

Your Say

  • Anonymous
    09/11/2011

    he was a machine... and probably still is!

  • Anonymous
    19/04/2012

    he definatley still is

  • Wayne Harvey Royal Marine
    31/10/2015

    John is my hero they say never meet your heros but i did and it was better than i could have imagined

  • Anonymous
    25/08/2021

    Should have been picked for the blues. But never got a chance

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Contributions: Rugby League Tables, Andrew Ferguson, AJ Lucantonio, Shawn Dollin, Alan Katzmann, Max Turner, Greg Fiveash, Paul Carter, Steven Russo

Sources: ARL Rugby League Yearbook 1996, NRL Rugby League Yearbook 2000, NRL Rugby League Yearbook 2001, NRL Rugby League Yearbook 2002, NRL Rugby League Yearbook 2003, NRL Rugby League Yearbook 2004, ARL Rugby League Yearbook 1997, NRL Rugby League Yearbook 1998, NRL Rugby League Yearbook 1999, NSWRL Rugby League Yearbook 1991-92, NSWRL Rugby League Yearbook 1992-93, NSWRL Rugby League Yearbook 1994, ARL Rugby League Yearbook 1995