Tony Brown (rugby player)

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Tony Brown
Full name	Tony Eion Brown
Date of birth	1975-01-17
Place of birth	Balclutha, New Zealand
Height	1.83 m
Weight	86 kg
Rugby union career
Position	Fly-half (First five-eighth)
Professional clubs		Caps	(points)
2005	Sanyo Wild Knights	?	(?)
correct as of 24 Sept 2006.
Provincial/State sides
1995-2004	Otago	71	(847)
correct as of 9 September 2006.
Super Rugby
1996-2004 2006	Highlanders Sharks	83 8	(817) 73

correct as of 1 June 2006.
National team(s)
1999-2001	New Zealand	18	(171)
correct as of 1 Sept 2006.
Other Information
School attended	King's High School (Dunedin)
University	University of Otago

Tony Eion Brown (born January 17, 1975 in Balclutha, New Zealand) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer, playing mainly at first five-eighth (fly half).

Brown early life was spent in the South Otago towns of Balclutha and Kaitangata, New Zealand, but he moved to Dunedin during his high school years, attending King's High School and playing for Harbour Rugby Club. He played his provincial rugby for Otago, and also represented the local Highlanders Super 12 rugby franchise, for whom he played as first choice goal-kicker from 1996 until his move overseas in 2004. During his Highlanders career, he scored 817 points in 83 matches, to go alongside his 847 points in 71 matches for Otago.

Brown was first picked for the All Blacks in 1999, making his debut in a match against New Zealand A on June 11, before making his international debut against Samoa at Albany Stadium exactly a week later. brown played a total of 18 test matches, scoring 171 test points (mostly with the boot, although he did score five tries) between then and his final test against Australia in August 2001. His international career included matches for New Zealand at the 1999 Rugby World Cup.

Brown's goal-kicking feats enabled him to score over 30 points in three separate internationals (against Italy in 1999, Samoa in 2000, and Tonga in 2001) - the only player to have achieved this. Despite this he was never a member of the regular starting line-up, the fly-half position being held by Andrew Mehrtens during that period.

Currently he plays Super 14 in South Africa with the Sharks. In the 2005-6 season he played with the Sanyo Wild Knights of the Top League in Japan.