George Bower

George Bower is a New Zealand loosehead prop whose rise into the All Blacks front row capped a steady, grafting climb through the provincial and Super Rugby system. Born on 28 May 1992, he earned his first All Blacks cap in 2021 after establishing himself as a cornerstone front-rower at the Crusaders. Bower's game combines heavy-duty scrum work with the mobility expected of the modern loosehead. He is a technically disciplined scrummager with a stable body position under load, and he couples that set-piece craft with consistent ball-carrying in the tight channels and a high work-rate defensive profile. That all-round output has made him a trusted rotational option in one of the most demanding front-row environments in world rugby. At the Crusaders he has been part of a squad that has collected multiple Super Rugby titles, a run that underlines both the club's standards and the grounding those environments have given his scrum work. Training daily alongside Test-capped forwards sharpened the technical detail of his game and prepared him for the step up to the All Blacks. His senior national selection placed him among the elite looseheads in the southern hemisphere and broadened his tactical understanding of high-pressure front-row rugby. Bower continues to offer the Crusaders a dependable, Test-hardened scrum voice and a front-row forward capable of absorbing heavy minutes across a long Super Rugby campaign.