Barry Eaton is a former Welsh international

Wales national rugby league team

The Wales national rugby league team represent Wales in international rugby league football matches. Currently the team is seventh in the RLIF World Rankings. The team were run under the auspices of the Rugby Football League, but an independent body, Wales Rugby League, now runs the team from...

 rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 player who is currently assistant coach at Crusaders. He was a .

Barry Eaton played in all but three of Widnes Vikings

Widnes Vikings

Widnes Vikings RLFC are an English professional rugby league club based in Widnes, Cheshire. They currently play in the Engage Super League, the top tier of European rugby league, after being awarded a license to compete in the top-flight Super League from 2012 onward...

' 28 matches in their first season in Super League. He joined Northern Ford Premiership club Batley Bulldogs

Batley Bulldogs

Batley Bulldogs are an English professional rugby league club from Batley, West Yorkshire. They currently play in the Co-operative Championship. Batley is one of the original twenty-two rugby football clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895...

 in October 2002.

Barry Eaton played and scored in every first team game in season 2002–03 (35 games) and season 2004 (30 games). Barry Eaton established a new world record by landing 38 consecutive successful goal kicks between 29 June 2003 and 24 August 2003.

He also played for the Dewsbury Rams

Dewsbury Rams

Dewsbury Rams RLFC is a professional rugby league club based in the West Yorkshire town of Dewsbury. They are arguably most famous for becoming Champions in 1972-73 after finishing the regular season in 8th place. In the playoffs they beat Featherstone away, Warrington away, and then Leeds in the...

, and in 2000 had a loan spell with Castleford Tigers

Castleford Tigers

Castleford Tigers are a professional rugby league club based in Castleford in West Yorkshire, England. They participate in the professional European competition Super League. They are sometimes known as 'Cas', 'Cas Tigers', 'Classy Cas' or the 'Black & Amber'...

.

He moved to Keighley Cougars

Keighley Cougars

Keighley Cougars are a professional rugby league club from Keighley in West Yorkshire, England. As of 2012 they will play in Co-operative Championship having won the Co-operative Championship 1 play off final 32-12 against Workington...

 as player-coach. He retired from playing and was given full control of the club by Peter Roe in 2007, although he continued to make sporadic on-field appearances during that season. After leading the Cougars to promotion, he was unable to keep them in the Co-operative Championship and subsequently moved to Crusaders to become assistant to Iestyn Harris

Iestyn Harris

Iestyn Rhys Harris is a Welsh former rugby league footballer, who is currently the assistant coach at Wigan Warriors. Harris is a former Man of Steel winner and has also represented Wales on numerous occasions at both codes of rugby...

in 2011.

International honours

Barry Eaton won caps for Wales while at Dewsbury Rams 1999…2001 1-cap + 4-caps (sub).

External links

• Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org

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