Rodney Iona
| Full name | Rodney Iona | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 17 August 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Melbourne, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 89 kg (14 st 0 lb; 196 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rodney Iona (born 17 August 1991) is an Australian rugby union footballer who recently played as a centre for the Jersey Reds in the English RFU Championship.[1] He also represented the Canberra Vikings in the inaugural National Rugby Championship.[2][3]
Career
Originally from Melbourne, Iona made his way north to Australia's capital Canberra in an attempt to forge out a rugby career for himself. In 2011 he linked up with the Tuggeranong Vikings who play in the ACTRU Premier Division while attending the Template:Rut Brumbies academy. He represented the Brumbies at sevens and won the World Club Sevens Championship in 2013 and also played in the World Club 10s tournament in Singapore.[4]
A spate of injuries for the Brumbies in the middle of the 2014 Super Rugby season saw Iona earn his first cap in a derby match against the Template:Rut Waratahs in Sydney. His debut didn't go quite as well as he'd have liked with his first pass being intercepted which resulted in a Waratahs try.[4] Despite this Iona was offered a full-time one-year contract with the Brumbies ahead of the 2015 Super Rugby season.[5]
Iona also played for the Canberra Vikings in the first ever National Rugby Championship in 2014 making 6 appearances.[3]
He joined French Rugby Pro D2 side AS Béziers Hérault in July 2016.[6] He made 18 appearances in his first season, but suffered a serious neck injury after just four matches in 2017 that threatened his career. He was released by Béziers and joined Spanish División de Honor de Rugby side UE Santboiana.[7]
Super Rugby Statistics
- As of 28 June 2015
| Season | Team | Games | Starts | Sub | Mins | Tries | Cons | Pens | Drops | Points | Yel | Red |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Template:Rut Brumbies | 1 | 0 | 1 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | Template:Rut Brumbies | 2 | 0 | 2 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 3 | 0 | 3 | 113 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
References
- ^ "Rodney Iona: Jersey Reds sign versatile Samoa international". BBC Sport. 27 November 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2019. | df=dmy-all }}
- ^ "Rondey Iona Canberra Vikings Player Profile". Brumbies Rugby. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
- ^ a b "Rodney Iona itsrugby Player Statistics". itsrugby. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
- ^ a b "ACT Brumbies sign Canberra Vikings centre Rodney Iona". Sydney Morning Herald. 17 September 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
- ^ "Iona upgrades to UC Brumbies in 2015". Brumbies Rugby. 17 September 2014. Archived from the original on 17 September 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
- ^ "Recrutement de Rodney Iona" (Press release) (in French). ASBH. 6 July 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
- ^ "La Santboiana fitxa el tres quarts australià Rodney Iona" (Press release) (in Catalan). RugbyCat. 4 December 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2017.