MY LIFEIN RUGBY

ANDREW MOWER
THE FORMER SCOTLAND, LONDON IRISH & NEWCASTLE FLANKER

Ball skills: Andrew Mower in action for Newcastle against his former club London Irish
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EDDIE Jones once rang me up and said I’ll give you a contract at the Brumbies, but on the understanding that you’ll be third or fourth choice and behind George Smith in the pecking order. I said, ‘who is George Smith?’ and he replied, ‘he’s this new kid, he’s pretty good!’.
I was on good money at the time as a foreign exchange trader in Sydney with...