Eion Crossan

Eion Crossan (the white wolf) (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-Sutherland Sharks between 1992 and 1995.

Eion Crossan
Personal information
Born (1967-05-10) 10 May 1967
New Zealand
Playing information
Rugby union
PositionWing
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
Southland
Bay of Plenty
Total 0 0 0 0 0
Rugby league
PositionWing
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1992–93 South Sydney 22 3 76 0 164
1994–95 Cronulla Sharks 23 8 64 0 160
Total 45 11 140 0 324
Source: [1]

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-Sutherland 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 South Sydney. 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 Cronulla-Sutherland 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
  1. Ferguson, Shawn Dollin and Andrew. "Eion Crossan - Career Stats & Summary - Rugby League Project".
  2. "Success of Stags' coaching pair no surprise to Crossan". 18 September 2007 – via Stuff.co.nz.
  3. "'Southland boys' took on France and won". 29 May 2012 – via Stuff.co.nz.
  4. Ferguson, Shawn Dollin and Andrew. "Eion Crossan - Career Stats & Summary - Rugby League Project".
  5. "It's on again at Rabbitohs and Dragons go into battle".
  6. 1994 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season
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