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| Full name | Jarrod Croker | |||||
| Nickname | Rod, Hot Rod, Toots, Croakes | |||||
| Born | 11 September 1990 Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Height | 184 cm (6 ft 0 in) | |||||
| Weight | 93 kg (14 st 9 lb) | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Centre | |||||
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| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2009– | Canberra Raiders | 68 | 25 | 205
Goals in the 2011 season = 49 |
0 | 312 |
| As of 20 August 2011 | ||||||
| Source: Herald Sun, [1] | ||||||
Jarrod Croker (born 11 September 1990) is an Australian rugby league player. He plays for the Canberra Raiders in the National Rugby League (NRL) in the centres or as a winger.[1]
Hailing from Goulburn, New South Wales, Croker played for the Goulburn Stockmen club as a junior. He played for the New South Wales Schoolboys and Australian Schoolboys representative teams in 2007 before being selected for the New South Wales Under-18s in 2008. Croker was part of the Canberra team that won the inaugural National Youth Competition (Toyota Cup) in 2008.[2]
Croker broke into Canberra's first-grade side in 2009, making his debut in Round 2 against the Sydney Roosters,[1] and went on to make 21 appearances in his rookie season.[3] He was again a regular in Canberra's 2010 side, making 25 appearances as Canberra finished 7th and made the NRL finals.[4] However, it was a missed penalty goal from Croker that ended the Raiders' 2010 season. In a sudden-death finals match against the Wests Tigers, in front of a home crowd of 26,476, he pushed wide a 30 metre kick that would have tied the match at 28–28.[5] Canberra's coach David Furner—himself a former Raiders goalkicker—defended Croker, arguing his goalkicking form had won a number of matches for the team during the season.[6] Days later, Croker was selected for Australia's train-on squad for the Four Nations tournament.[7]
Croker is contracted to the Raiders through to the end of the 2013 season.[8] He is distantly related to former Canberra, NSW and Australia player Jason Croker.[9]
Interesting facts: Jarrod Croker recently signed on with the Raiders until the end of 2013 on the 6th of August.
Jarrod has been playing rugby league with Josh Dugan since he was 15.
Andrew Johns during about mid State of Origin series this year labelled Croker as a possible answer to the NSW team's centre crisis. He also said he is a future rep star for sure.
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