In 2014, Bower moved to
Dunedin to play for the Harbour Hawks RFC and then played one game for
Otago's
National Provincial Championship team that year as an injury replacement. Bower was once an extra in an advertisement for the All Blacks. Bower did not make an appearance for Otago until 2018 when he was called in as injury cover. He played seven more games for Otago in 2018. In 2019, he was named in the
Crusaders' pre-season and made his debut in round 4. In November 2019, he was named in the 2020 Crusaders' squad. In October 2020, the All Blacks' coach,
Ian Foster, named Bower as a wider squad member of the All Blacks team to Australia. In 2021, he was again named in the wider squad for the
Steinlager Series against
Fiji and
Tonga. He made his international debut for the All Blacks on 3 July 2021 against Tonga in
Auckland. ==Reference list==