Crocker fined over pub brawl

Melbourne Storm forward and former Sydney Rooster Michael Crocker has been fined $700 in a Sydney court over a pub brawl.

The 25-year-old Queensland and Australian representative rugby league player was arrested on March 20 last year after a drunken brawl outside the Beach Palace Hotel at Coogee, in Sydney's eastern suburbs.

Police had to subdue Crocker and three other men involved in the fracas. Crocker, who already had been fined $10,000 by his former club, the Sydney Roosters, had apologised to fans for the brawl, which occurred in a hotel off limits to players.

The back rower had pleaded guilty to affray and was today fined $700 in Waverley Local Court.

"You have pleaded guilty to the charge and I will take that into account," Magistrate Deborah Sweeney told the court. "It shows that you have taken responsibility for your conduct that night."

Outside the court Crocker said he wanted to put the incident behind him. "I'm happy to get it over and done with, and now I can get on with footy," he told reporters. "It is an unfortunate incident, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time."