Mature: James O’Connor

FORMER Wallaby scrumhalf Will Genia has taken a lot of pleasure in watching James O’Connor come back from his dark days of drugs and alcohol to lead Queensland Reds.
It was at Sale where O’Connor revitalised his career after hitting rock bottom in France when he and Toulon teammate, All Black lock Ali Williams, were busted by police on suspicion of trying to buy cocaine.
And while O’Connor was never charged over the incident, his two-night stay in a Paris prison cell was the catalyst for him to seek a change in his life and resurrec...