Rugby career
In 2009, Eyres-Brown returned to playing rugby union at the Gold Coast Breakers club. He made his Premier Rugby debut against Norths on 25 April 2009, when he played as a winger and scored two tries. [4] From this success, Eyres-Brown was selected as a winger for Queensland Country before making the Australia Sevens squad in 2009. Eyres-Brown clocked a 100 metre time of 10.47 seconds at the Australian Institute of Sport during the Australian 7s camp. [1]
He sustained a shoulder injury playing with the Breakers in 2010 which cut his season short. [1] He returned via rugby league in 2011 with the Southport Tigers, [5] before rejoining the Breakers in 2012. [1] [6]
Eyres-Brown was recruited to the Queensland Reds during the 2012 Super Rugby season. [6] He was flown at short notice to South Africa to provide injury cover as a utility back for Mike Harris and Ben Lucas. On 24 March, for the Bulls match at Pretoria, he came off the bench in the second half to earn his Queensland and Super Rugby debut. [7] [8] Against the Western Force a week later, he came off the bench again, to relieve centre Ben Tapuai. [9]
Farul Constanţa
Eyres-Brown joined Romanian Superliga team Farul Constanţa for the 2013 SuperLiga season. On 13 July, he became the first ever Super Rugby player to play in the SuperLiga, starting against Timișoara in the Stadionul de Rugby Mihai Naca, Constanța. During the same game, Sosene Anesi coming off the bench for Timișoara to become the second Super Rugby player in the SuperLiga. Eyres-Brown played another 11 games for Farul Constanţa, playing as a centre, full-back, wing and fly-half. Farul Constanţa lost in the semi-final of the SuperLiga against CSA Steaua București, during which Eyres-Brown was sent off late in the game for a late hit.
The send off was the end for Farul Constanta as their marque and play maker left the field for the game. Eyres-Brown taunted the opposition crowd leaving the field. Eyres-Brown received a hefty suspension given his previous two warnings during the playoffs for bad sportsmanship. Farul Constanta management made an apology on behalf of Eyres-Brown and mentioned it is his competitiveness that brought out the bad sportsmanship. Eyres-Brown was suspended for 14 weeks for the incident.
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