For years Cross has dreamed of this day, his date with destiny
For years Cross has dreamed of this day, his date with destiny
Wayne Smith | September 10, 2008
RYAN Cross was sound asleep when Australia's Stirling Mortlock booted a pressure penalty goal against South Africa in August 2000 to clinch the Tri-Nations Cup for the first time.
Mad rugby fan though he was, Cross was dreaming of another trophy that only a few hours later he would be playing for, as a member of the Sydney Roosters side facing the Brisbane Broncos in the NRL grand final.
Mortlock's last-gasp heroics in Durban happened too late in the night to make the Sydney newspapers but Cross awoke to a story about himself in the The Sunday Telegraph in which Andrew Johns called on the national selectors to pick the 20-year-old Roosters rookie in Australia's rugby league World Cup squad.
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