Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Born
- Wednesday, 15th March, 1972
- Current Age
- 51 years and 191 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 % | ||||
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| 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 | ||||
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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 | |||
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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 George Illawarra | 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 George Illawarra | 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, Shawn Dollin, AJ Lucantonio, Steven Russo
Your Say
Anonymous says: he was a machine... and probably still is! (09/11/2011)
Anonymous says: he definatley still is (19/04/2012)
Wayne Harvey Royal Marine says: John is my hero they say never meet your heros but i did and it was better than i could have imagined (31/10/2015)
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