Eion Crossan (born 10 May 1967 in New Zealand) is a New Zealand former

Rugby Football Rugby football is the collective name for the team sports of rugby union and rugby league. Canadian football and, to a lesser extent, American football were once considered forms of rugby football, but are seldom now referred to as such. The ...

er who played

Rugby Union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

for

Southland Southland may refer to: Places Canada * Dunbar–Southlands, Vancouver, British Columbia New Zealand * Southland Region, a region of New Zealand * Southland County, a former New Zealand county * Southland District, part of the wider Southland Re ...

and

Bay of Plenty The Bay of Plenty ( mi, Te Moana-a-Toi) is a region of New Zealand, situated around a bight of the same name in the northern coast of the North Island. The bight stretches 260 km from the Coromandel Peninsula in the west to Cape Runawa ...

between 1987 and 1996, and

Rugby League Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...

for the

South Sydney Rabbitohs The South Sydney Rabbitohs are a professional Australian rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen pla ...

and

Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Cronulla, in the Sutherland Shire, Southern Sydney, New South Wales. They compete in the National Rugby League (NRL), Australasia's premier rugby league ...

between 1992 and 1995.

Playing career

Rugby Union

Crosson played for

and

between 1987 and 1996. He played 49 games for

and 28 games for

He scored all 12 points (4 penalty goals) for Southland Rugby Union club, to guide them to victory over France in 1989.

Rugby League

He played

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...

between 1992 and 1995 in the

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competition. During this time he played for the

and

. 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 Daryl John Halligan (born 25 July 1966) is a rugby league commentator and former professional player. A New Zealand international winger, he was the pre-eminent goal-kicker of his era, retiring as the highest point scorer in Australian premiers ...

. During a Charity Shield game, playing for Souths, he had his nose broken by Dragons player

David Barnhill David Barnhill (born 8 June 1969) is a former Ireland international rugby league footballer who played as a Second row forward in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. His club career was with the Canberra Raiders, St. George Dragons, Sydney City and ...

. 1993 saw Crossan playing reserve grade for South Sydney. In 1994 he switched to Cronulla-Sutherland and played for them until the end of the 1995 season. 1994 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season In the ARL, he scored a total of 324 points, including 140 goals at 70%. He also scored 11 tries.

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Crossan, Eion 1967 births Living people New Zealand rugby league players South Sydney Rabbitohs players Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks players Rugby union players from the Bay of Plenty Region New Zealand rugby union players Rugby league wingers Southland rugby union players Bay of Plenty rugby union players Rugby union wings Rugby league players from the Bay of Plenty Region