Jesse Mogg (born 8 June 1989) is an

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player who plays for the French

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club

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. His usual position is at full-back, though he can also play as a winger. Mogg previously played four seasons with the

Brumbies The ACT Brumbies (known from 2005–2022 as simply the Brumbies) is an Australian professional rugby union team based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory (ACT), The team competes in Super Rugby and named for the brumby, feral horses whi ...

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. He was capped for the Australian national team in 2013.

Family and early life

Mogg was born in Brisbane and attended St Patrick's College, Shorncliffe (the same school as notable Wallaby Drew Mitchell). In 2006 he represented the Australia A Schools

side. He played colts rugby at the

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club. Mogg is distantly related to the former professional

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footballer,

Adam Mogg Adam Mogg (born 31 July 1977) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s. A Queensland State of Origin representative , he played in the National Rugby League (NRL) for Australian clubs the Canberra Rai ...

Rugby career

Mogg joined the

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in the

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competition for two years, and was selected to play for Queensland A in 2008. He then switched codes to

where he played in the Toyota Cup competition as a member of the

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development squad in 2009. Mogg joined the

rugby academy in 2011. Mogg made his professional rugby union debut for the Brumbies in the first round of the

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against the

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, scoring a try in a 19–17 victory. Mogg, a former high school track star, recorded a maximum speed of 10.06 metres per second during 2013 pre-season sprint testing with the Brumbies, making him one of the fastest players of any football code within Australia. Mogg signed with French

club

for the 2015–16 season. After six years playing in France, three with Monpellier before moving to

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, Mogg signed a two-year deal to return to the Brumbies for the 2022–23 seasons.

Super Rugby statistics

Honours

2015–16 European Rugby Challenge Cup The 2015–16 European Rugby Challenge Cup was the second edition of the European Rugby Challenge Cup, an annual pan-European rugby union competition for professional clubs. It is also the 20th season of the Challenge Cup competition in all forms, ...

: winner (Montpellier).

Reference list

External links

Brumbies profile
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