Adam Thomson at an Otago team training at Logan Park last year. Photo: Gregor RichardsonFormer All Black and Highlanders loose forward Adam Thomson has capped off a miraculous late-career recovery from spending 57 days hospital bound in 2017, to signing with the Chiefs. Thomson has joined the Chiefs as one of eight replacement players currently in with the squad. "It's a strange old beast this life we live, this time two years ago I was flat on my back in a Japanese hospital unable to walk," Thomson posted on Instagram. He returned to Super Rugby in 2015 and '16, playing for the Reds and Rebels respectively, before going back to Japan, linking back up with the Canon Eagles.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 14, 2020 01:41 UTC