Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Born
- Wednesday, 15th March, 1972
- Current Age
- Turned 53 yesterday
Honours & Awards
Based only on data available in the RLP database. This information should be used as a guide only.
- Challenge Cup AU
- 1992
- Anzac Cup
- 2003
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 | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
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| NSWRL/ARL/NRL Premiership | - | 265 | 53 | - | - | 212 | 117 | 138 | 10 | 44.15% | List | ||||
| Challenge Cup AU | 1 | 12 | 4 | - | - | 16 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.00% | List | ||||
| City vs Country | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33.33% | List | ||||
| Tour Matches | Illawarra Steelers | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
| NSWRL/ARL/NRL Finals | - | 6 | 1 | - | - | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 16.67% | List | ||||
| Anzac Cup | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
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Australia - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| NSW City Firsts | 1992-93 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| NSW Country | 1995 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | 1992-1995 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33.33% | List | ||||
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NSWRL/ARL/NRL Premiership - By Year | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Illawarra | NSWRL 1991 Winfield Cup | 8 | 2 | - | - | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Illawarra | NSWRL 1992 Winfield Cup | 25 | 9 | - | - | 36 | 14 | 10 | 1 | 56.00% | List | ||||
| Illawarra | NSWRL 1993 Winfield Cup | 21 | 4 | - | - | 16 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 52.38% | List | ||||
| Illawarra | NSWRL 1994 Winfield Cup | 21 | 8 | - | - | 32 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 52.38% | List | ||||
| Illawarra | ARL 1995 Winfield Cup | 22 | 4 | - | - | 16 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 45.45% | List | ||||
| Illawarra | ARL 1996 Optus Cup | 21 | 2 | - | - | 8 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 33.33% | List | ||||
| Illawarra | ARL 1997 Optus Cup | 19 | 3 | - | - | 12 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 42.11% | List | ||||
| Penrith | 1998 NRL Premiership | 18 | 7 | - | - | 28 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 38.89% | List | ||||
| Penrith | 1999 NRL Premiership | 24 | 3 | - | - | 12 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 45.83% | List | ||||
| Penrith | 2000 NRL Telstra Premiership | 26 | 5 | - | - | 20 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 53.85% | List | ||||
| Penrith | 2001 NRL Telstra Premiership | 26 | 3 | - | - | 12 | 7 | 19 | 0 | 26.92% | List | ||||
| Penrith | 2002 NRL Telstra Premiership | 15 | 1 | - | - | 4 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 33.33% | List | ||||
| St Geo Illa | 2003 NRL Telstra Premiership | 19 | 2 | - | - | 8 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 42.11% | List | ||||
NSWRL/ARL/NRL Premiership - 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 | ||||
| Overall | 1991-2003 | 265 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 212 | 117 | 138 | 10 | 44.15% | List | ||||
Contributions:
Rugby League Tables, Andrew Ferguson, AJ Lucantonio, Shawn Dollin, Greg Fiveash, Paul Carter, Alan Katzmann, Max Turner, Steven Russo
Sources:
David Middleton's Rugby League Yearbook (1987-88 to present), Official NRL Website
Your Say
09/11/2011
he was a machine... and probably still is!
19/04/2012
he definatley still is
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
25/08/2021
Should have been picked for the blues. But never got a chance
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