Eion Crossan
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| Born | 10 May 1967 New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Eion Crossan (born 10 May 1967 in New Zealand) is a New Zealand former rugby footballer who played rugby union for Southland and Bay of Plenty between 1987 and 1996, and rugby league for the South Sydney Rabbitohs and Cronulla Sharks between 1992 and 1995.
Playing career
Rugby union
Crosson played for Southland and Bay of Plenty between 1987 and 1996.
He played 49 games for Southland and 28 games for Bay of Plenty [2]
He scored all 12 points (4 penalty goals) for Southland Rugby Union club, to guide them to victory over France in 1989.[3]
Rugby league
He played rugby league between 1992 and 1995 in the ARL competition. During this time he played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs and Cronulla Sharks.
He was well renowned as an accurate goal kicker at the time, and finished the 1992 season with a 78% kicking record, which was not far behind Daryl Halligan.[4]
During a Charity Shield game, playing for Souths, he had his nose broken by Dragons player David Barnhill.[5]
1993 saw Crossan playing reserve grade for the Rabbitohs. Despite his great goal kicking prowess, a number of oppositions teams learnt that he had a weakness in his tackling technique, and had been targeted late in the 1992 season. In 1994 he switched to the Cronulla Sharks and played for them until the end of the 1995 season.[6]
In the ARL, he scored a total of 324 points, including 140 goals at 70%. He also scored 11 tries.
References
- ^ Ferguson, Shawn Dollin and Andrew. "Eion Crossan - Career Stats & Summary - Rugby League Project".
- ^ "Success of Stags' coaching pair no surprise to Crossan". 18 September 2007 – via Stuff.co.nz.
- ^ "'Southland boys' took on France and won". 29 May 2012 – via Stuff.co.nz.
- ^ Ferguson, Shawn Dollin and Andrew. "Eion Crossan - Career Stats & Summary - Rugby League Project".
- ^ "It's on again at Rabbitohs and Dragons go into battle".
- ^ 1994 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season