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Sat 11 Nov 2008Bowe begins to tick all the boxes in back-line play
IRELAND v CANADA: Gerry Thornleytalks to Ospreys' Tommy Bowe who, having failed to make the cut for the 2007 World Cup squad, is on current form in the running for a Lions place
AMID ULSTER'S flight of wild geese proportions, he was the one that got away. Rumour has it Tommy Bowe needed a new wallet when he went to the Ospreys, one of the most eyebrow-raising moves abroad by any Irish player, and that it was a frustrated reaction to being overlooked by Eddie O'Sullivan at the outset of last season's Six Nations. Not the way he tells it, though.
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