10 Facts About Gavin Miller

Gavin Miller earned two successive Dally M Player of the Year awards in 1988 and 1989.

At his peak, Miller was regarded by many pundits as the most dangerous attacking forward in the NSWRL, largely due to his ball playing and kicking skills.

Gavin Miller's influence was at the helm of the Cronulla-Sutherland becoming Premiership contenders after having spent some years at the lower end of the ladder.

Gavin Miller began playing for Goulburn as a centre and was recommended to Western Suburbs in 1977.

Gavin Miller did poorly for Easts in the following two years but Cronulla thought he had potential and signed him for 1980.

Still playing as a centre, Gavin Miller obtained a regular place in the Cronulla side and gradually showed he had exceptional ball skills as well as the ability to run which he had shown with Wests.

Gavin Miller returned to Cronulla in 1986 a more mature player, and after a slow start to his second stint with the club, by 1988 Gavin Miller had become one of the most dominant players in the ARL.

Gavin Miller had the ability to consistently offload and send players into gaps, and was at the helm of Cronulla winning fifteen of their last seventeen home-and-away matches, and claiming the club's first minor premiership.

Gavin Miller played in the World Cup final against New Zealand, remarkably scoring a try , and in between was named as Man of the Match versus a "Rest of the World" team.

Gavin Miller won not only the Dally M Player of the Year, but the Rugby League Week Player of the Year and the Rothmans Medal.