Craig Gower

Craig Gower is an Australian rugby player, born on April 29th, 1978 with Penrith in Australia (1,74 m, 90 kg). Player of Rugby to XIII with the Penrith Panthers during all his career, it was often eager to test with XV, and engaged with the Bayonne Aviron in June 2007 after having negotiated the end of his contract two years before his term. He should not join France before January 2008, time to finish the season with his club treizist.

Career

Model of precocity, Gower begins at the 18 years age Rugby with XIII in the pros, then in national team with 20. Gower knew one club a long time: Penrith Panthers, team of prestigious the National Rugby League, the professional championship of Rugby to XIII Australian. He was captain of his team between 2002 and 2005 then again in 2007; it is him which led its team to the championship in 2003.

It was also selected six times with the New South Wales Blues, team representative of the State of News-Wales-of-South, to play against the Queensland Maroons in the annual confrontation of the State off Origin. He also played with the Kangourous, the national team of Australia, with which it account 14 selections (once captain, against France in 2005).

In October 2006, it was selected to appear in the standard team of Penrith Panthers the forty last years ( Panthers Legend TEAM ) as a substitute.

TO XIII, he plays post of talonnor initially, before being regularly retained like half of fray, then some times like three quarters center, a versatility which did not always succeed to him, the press and its trainers not ceasing wondering about its best station. It was often handicapped by wounds. It should evolve/move as three quarters centers in Bayonne.

Polemics

Gower trails a sulfurous reputation related to various incidents apart from the ground often due to an alcohol excessive consumption. In 1999, old of hardly 20 years, it exhibe, under the influence of alcohol, in a bar in front of an Irish tourist, episode which will be worth to him to be excluded from the national team with which he was to make his beginnings shortly after. In 2004, it is expelled of the team of News-Wales-of-South to have made the wall at the time of a setting to the green to go to drink. He would have also cherished a teenager, girl of a former player, at the time of a tournament of golf of charity in December 2005, where he moreover would have walked naked and would have had an accident with a carrier. It would have also thrown a knife there on guests, before being put outside. He saw himself inflicting a “last warning” by the NRL, an obligation to follow a program on the devastations of alcohol, as well as a fine of A$ 100.000 (approximately 63.000 €), of which A$ 30.000 to pay with a program aiming at supporting the players of the suffering NRL of alcohol problems.

In February 2007, it is pointed out in a night club where it behaves in an aggressive way towards an young woman, before biting been engaged of this one to the neck, and starting one second brawl with a man who refused to drink glass that Gower had offered to him, incidental filmed by the surveillance cameras of the nightclub. The investigation follows its course, while its club defends it, affirming that the business had been enlarged by the media.

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