Greg Somerville

As of April 25, 2009 National: November 1, 2008

Greg Mardon Somerville ( born November 28, 1977 in Wairoa, New Zealand) is a New Zealand rugby union player. Somerville plays for English club Gloucester RFC in the Aviva Premiership. By 2008 he was in the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks.

Despite a serious injury he suffered in 2006, he succeeded in 2007 in the squad in the Rugby Union World Cup, as it did in 2003. He is a first- row players, playing on the position of the right pillar. Somerville made ​​his international debut in 2000 against Tonga, as the All Blacks won with 102:0. Somerville took 41 matches before he scored his first and only attempt for the All Blacks. This happened against Fiji in 2005. Somerville This is the one All Black who took the longest to put his first attempt. His 50th game he played against Argentina in June 2006 in Buenos Aires.

Before Somerville a contract for two and a half years at the Guinness Premiership club Gloucester signed and New Zealand left, he played provincial rugby for Canterbury Rugby Football Union and in the Super 14 for the Crusaders, for which he, after he made his debut against the Chiefs in 1999, 101 Games completed. Somerville's nickname is Yoda, named after the fictional character from Star Wars.

On 20 December he was injured in his first league game for Gloucester difficult turned out the left eye, which is why he had to undergo surgery and for two months. Somerville will play starting in 2011 for the Melbourne Rebels in the expanded Super 14.