Andy Powell (rugby player)

Andy Powell

Full name	Andrew Powell
Date of birth	(1981-08-23) 23 August 1981 (age 35)
Place of birth	Brecon, Wales
Height	193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	115 kg (18 st 2 lb; 254 lb)
School	Llandovery College
Rugby league career
Position(s) Prop, Second-row Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) 2013–2014 2013 Wigan → South Wales Scorpions 5 2 (4) (0) Correct as of 16:21, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Rugby union career
Current team Merthyr Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) 1999–2000 2000–2001 2001–2003 2003 2003–2004 2004–2005 2005–2010 2010–2011 2011–2013 2014–2015 2015– Newport Llandovery Newport Béziers Leicester Llanelli Scarlets Cardiff Blues Wasps Sale NG Dragons Merthyr 1 18 49 0 1 1 63 21 38 10 0 (0) (10) (55) (0) (0) (0) (25) (5) (15) (0) (0) Correct as of 15 July 2015 National team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) 2008–2012 2009 Wales British and Irish Lions 23 0 (5) (0) Correct as of 17:19, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Position(s)	Prop, Second-row
Senior career
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
2013–2014 2013	Wigan → South Wales Scorpions	5 2	(4) (0)
Correct as of 16:21, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Current team	Merthyr
Senior career
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1999–2000 2000–2001 2001–2003 2003 2003–2004 2004–2005 2005–2010 2010–2011 2011–2013 2014–2015 2015–	Newport Llandovery Newport Béziers Leicester Llanelli Scarlets Cardiff Blues Wasps Sale NG Dragons Merthyr	1 18 49 0 1 1 63 21 38 10 0	(0) (10) (55) (0) (0) (0) (25) (5) (15) (0) (0)
Correct as of 15 July 2015
National team(s)
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
2008–2012 2009	Wales British and Irish Lions	23 0	(5) (0)
Correct as of 17:19, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Andrew "Andy" Powell (born 23 August 1981) is a retired Welsh rugby union player, who last played for Merthyr RFC. He is a former international rugby union player having played for both the Wales sevens team and the Wales national rugby union team as well as touring with the British and Irish Lions (uncapped). His regular rugby union position was either No. 8 or blindside flanker in the back row.

Born in Brecon, Powell attended Llandovery College and played as an amateur for both Llandovery and Brecon. In 1999, he joined Newport RFC and over the following four seasons he played in fifty matches, scoring eleven tries. Mentored by South African Ian McIntosh, he made the Wales Under-21 squad. He then joined Leicester Tigers, before returning to Wales via French club AS Béziers Hérault with the Llanelli Scarlets.

Powell joined the Cardiff Blues in the summer of 2005, making an impact in his first season, winning a number of man of the match awards. The 2006/07 season was an exceptionally unlucky one for Powell, who injured his left shoulder in a pre-season friendly against Bristol Rugby. The injury required total shoulder reconstruction and he returned to action at the beginning of April 2007. Three games in to his comeback, he suffered an identical injury to his right shoulder, which would also require reconstruction. In December 2009, Powell was one of only three British players to be selected for the Barbarians, in their encounter with New Zealand.

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