Robbie Kearns

Robbie Kearns

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Kearns in 2008
Personal information
Born	(1971-12-12) 12 December 1971 Sydney, Australia
Height	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	100 kg (15 st 10 lb)
Playing information
Position	Prop
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1992–95	Cronulla Sharks	75	9	2	0	40
1996–97	Western Reds	37	4	0	0	16
1998–05	Melbourne Storm	169	18	0	0	72
	Total	281	31	2	0	128
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1997–03	New South Wales	9	0	0	0	0
1997–03	Australia	29	1	0	0	4
2002–03	City Origin	2	0	0	0	0

Robbie Kearns (born 12 December 1971 in Sydney) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer in the National Rugby League competition whose senior career began with the Cronulla Sharks. He represented New South Wales in State of Origin and Australia in international matches. His position of choice was at Prop forward. In 2000 Kearns was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for his contribution to Australia's international standing in rugby league. He retired at the conclusion of the 2005 season after a 13-year career but remained with the Melbourne Storm in a marketing capacity.

Playing career

Kearns played junior football for the Engadine Dragons. He made his First Grade Debut for the Cronulla Sharks in Round 1 v Brisbane at Lang Park, 20 March 1992, becoming a regular in the Cronulla Sharks side.

Kearns signed with the Western Reds for 1997. In the 1997 post season, he was selected to play for Australia from the interchange bench in all three matches of the Super League Test series against Great Britain.

Kearns signed on with the newly created Melbourne Storm for the 1998 NRL season. That year he was named the club's player of the year. Having won the 1999 Premiership, the Melbourne Storm travelled to England to contest the 2000 World Club Challenge against Super League Champions St Helens RLFC, with Kearns captaining at prop forward in the victory. Kearns captained the Melbourne Storm from 2000 to 2002 and again in 2005. At the end of the 2001 NRL season, he went on the 2001 Kangaroo tour He was again named the Storm's player of the season in 2003 and he went on the 2003 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, helping Australia to victory over Great Britain in what would be the last time the two nations contested an Ashes series.

Melbourne Storm released a 'team of the decade' as part of their 10-year celebrations in 2007, with Kearns named at prop.

Representative career

• State of Origin: Played 8 games in total for New South Wales between 1998 and 2003
• International: Played 17 tests for Australia including the 2000 World Cup

Career stats

283 career games to date scoring 31 tries, 2 goals (128 points)

External links

• Robbie Kearns at stateoforigin.com
• Robbie Kearns at melbournestorm.com.au
• 2001 Ashes profile