Jarrod McCracken

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Jarrod McCracken is a New Zealand former rugby league player. He is a former captain of the New Zealand national rugby league team. McCracken played first grade club football in Australia for the Canterbury Bulldogs, Parramatta Eels and Wests Tigers (who he captained in their first season), and in England for St Helens RLFC. He is the son of Ken McCracken.

[edit] Spear Tackle

Jarrod McCracken's football career came to a premature end in round 15 of the 2000 NRL competition in a game against the Melbourne Storm, when Storm players Stephen Kearney and Marcus Bai performed a dangerous spear tackle on him, inflicting a career ending neck injury. McCracken later successfully sued the Melbourne Storm and the two players involved for damages stemming from the lost income of his football career.

He has since become a prominent real estate developer in Australia, where his company conducted a major redevelopment of Townsville's CBD

[edit] External links

• Bulldogs profile
• Article in the Daily Telegraph