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Angus Crichton

Angus Crichton (/ˈæŋɡəsˈkrtən/; born 5 February 1996) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a second-row forward for the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League (NRL) and the Australia national team.

He previously played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs and has represented New South Wales in State of Origin, as well as the Prime Minister's XIII. He won the 2019 NRL Grand Final with the Sydney Roosters.

Crichton was born in 1996 in Temora, in the Riverina region of New South Wales, to Pip and Charlie Crichton. He was raised on the family farm in the nearby town of Young where his father worked as a cattle-farmer. During his youth, Angus' father Charlie played for Randwick and was an Australian Schoolboys representative in the 1980s.

Crichton began playing junior rugby union in his youth with the local club called the Young Yabbies, and was reported to be a standout player by the former junior rugby coach. In 2009, he moved to Sydney to attend Scots College, a private boarding school. Crichton played three season with the school's 1st XV. In 2013, with Crichton playing at number 8, Scots College 1st XV won the AAGPS premiership jointly with Newington College. The following season Crichton played as an outside centre and the 1st XV went undefeated and won the premiership outright. Crichton was declared as one of the teams' three best players by rugby website Green and Gold Rugby, alongside fullback Guy Porter and scrum-half Theo Strang. Crichton represented the New South Wales Schoolboys I team and the Australia A Schoolboys squad for 2013. In the latter season Crichton was selected in the Australian Schoolboys squad but did not play a game.

While at Scots College, the Crichton's became good friends with the family of future Waratahs and Australia player Jack Maddocks.

He spent some time back in rugby league with the Sydney Roosters' lower grade teams in 2014, before again playing for the Australian Schoolboys rugby union team that same year. On 31 October 2014, he signed a 2-year contract with the South Sydney Rabbitohs starting in 2015.

In 2015, he played for the Rabbitohs' NYC team, before re-signing with them late in the year on a 2-year contract until the end of 2018.

In 2016, Crichton graduated to the Rabbitohs' New South Wales Cup team, North Sydney Bears.

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