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Rugged loose forward tagged "a real athlete" by Warriors coach Mark Graham. Newcastle bred, he couldn't make any headway at the Knights where he played both President's Cup and reserve grade football. Among his contemporaries were two players in the same predicament - Brett Kimmorley and Richard Swain, who've both gone on to much bigger things with the Melbourne Storm. Another team-mate was Matthew Gidley. Originally a winger or centre, Coxon was signed by Western Suburbs for the 1998 season where he linked up with Tommy Raudonikis. While essentially a loose forward, he aso showed he could play at stand-off. Appeared 24 times for the struggling Magpies in 1998 and 15 more in 1999. Wests battled all of last year, but Coxon still caught Mark Graham's attention and now finds himself at a club promising big things. Impressed in the Warriors' 22-8 trial win against Canberra, putting his fellow Wests recruit Matt Spence in for a try. A real workrate player, he averaged 21 tackles a game for Wests last year with a success rate close to 95 percent.
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