Australia’s wild west first turned Jeremy Thrush into a mo-and-mullet man.
Now, he’s making a full-on transition into coaching.
Former teammates in New Zealand saw neither on the horizon when he left Wellington for a stint with English club Gloucester in 2015. In truth, neither did the former All Blacks lock who now calls Perth home.
He’s the latest on a growing list of former All Blacks who have decided to settle in Australia beyond what started out purely as a contract to play in Oz.
Alby Mathewson lives on Queensland’s Gold Coast. You’d swear that’s Hosea Gear strolling about on the Sunshine Coast in the same state.
It is.
Grant Batty, the pocket rocket of the 1970s, is happily ensconced with his wider family in cattle country near tiny Wallabadah in northern NSW.
Richard Kahui. Well, we still can’t put down a settled location for the 2011 World Cup-winner now he’s
