# John Muggleton

john muggleton (born 16 January 1960) is an Australian former rugby league footballer who represented the Parramatta Eels in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership, New South Wales in State of Origin competition and the Australian national team (1982). == Playing career == Muggleton originally played junior rugby union with Dundas Valley before switching to rugby league at the age of 16 to play for Ryde District Devils, in the Balmain junior competition.Muggleton was initially graded as a fullback with Balmain, but moved to Parramatta in 1980 and the following year, jumped suddenly into first grade just as the Eels won their first premiership. 1982 saw Muggleton become as a second rower an integral part of Parramatta's most dominant NRL team, providing a second kicker to support Peter Sterling, who was later to become his brother-in-law, and showing abundant ball skills to create opportunities for a famous backline of Sterling, Brett Kenny, Mick Cronin, Steve Ella and Eric Grothe, Sr.