The 1998 Illawarra Steelers season was the club's seventeenth and final season, spanning across the three rugby league competitions of the NSWRL, ARL and NRL. A home loss by a field goal to the hands of the Craig Polla-Mounter and his Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs team, plus results going against them in the final round of the regular season saw the Steelers finish 12th. Andrew Farrar's team of hopefuls were unable to make the finals series and were put under pressure to merge or fold when the league was expected to cut the twenty-team competition down to fourteen for the 1999 season. The club would eventually form a joint-venture with the St. George Dragons for the start of the 1999 NRL season.
Players
Squad
(captain)
Player Movements Gains Player Previous club Craig Wilson South Queensland Crushers Losses Player Joined Club John Cross Penrith PanthersFili Seru retired
Ladder
Draw and Results
Home Crowd Averages
Round Opposition Venue Crowd Round 1 Melbourne Storm WIN Stadium 10,695 Round 3 Newcastle Knights WIN Stadium 9,141 Round 5 St. George Dragons WIN Stadium 9,427 Round 7 Parramatta Eels WIN Stadium 9,119 Round 9 Western Suburbs Magpies WIN Stadium 7,636 Round 12 South Sydney Rabbitohs WIN Stadium 8,174 Round 14 Balmain Tigers WIN Stadium 10,076 Round 16 North Queensland Cowboys WIN Stadium 6,558 Round 18 Brisbane Broncos WIN Stadium 12,018 Round 20 North Sydney Bears WIN Stadium 6,847 Round 22 Sydney City Roosters WIN Stadium 8,178 Round 24 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs WIN Stadium 13,106 Season Total 110,975 Season Average 9,248
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