Michael Crocker

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**Michael Crocker**
Personal information

Full name	Michael Crocker
Date of birth	June 21, 1980
Place of birth	Auburn, Australia
Height	1.85 m
Weight	99 kg
Position	Second row
Club information
Current club	Melbourne Storm
Youth clubs
	Redcliffe
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (points)
2001-2005 2006-present	Sydney Melbourne	92 (230) 13 (12)
Representative teams**
2003-2005 2003-2004	Queensland Australia	7 (12) 4
* Professional club appearances and points counted for domestic first grade only and correct as of 24 September 2006. ** Representative team caps and points correct as of 1 January 2006.

Michael Crocker (born June 21, 1980 in Auburn, Australia) is a rugby league player for the Melbourne Storm and the Queensland State of Origin Team. His first choice of position is second row, although he has also played hooker.

1 Sydney Roosters
2 Melbourne Storm
3 Footnotes
4 References
5 External Links

[edit] Sydney Roosters

Crocker made his First Grade debut in 2001 for the Sydney Roosters. In doing so, he became the 1000th player to play for the club.^[1] During his career with the Roosters, he made three consecutive Grand Final appearances between 2002 and 2004 which included a premiership in 2002. In the 2004 decider against the Canterbury Bulldogs, Crocker was the last player to touch the ball in the game. Trailing 16-13 and with less than seconds left on the game, Crocker appeared to make a break down the right hand side of the field about 30 metres out from the Canterbury line but lost control of the ball when Andrew Ryan desperately made contact with his arms which dislodged the ball.

Crocker made his State of Origin debut whilst playing with the Sydney Roosters in 2003, where he scored a try on debut in the second match of the series.^[2]

[edit] Melbourne Storm

After signing with the Melbourne Storm in 2006 he became the Storm's lucky charm. He was ruled out of several matches due to suspensions and out of the 13 games he played, the team won all of them. Unfortunately in the preliminary final match against the St George Illawarra Dragons he did ligament damage to his knee and was ruled out of their Grand Final match against the Brisbane Broncos.