Alex Newsome is an Australian rugby union player who plays in the backline for the French club, ASM Clermont Auvergne.

He has previously played for the Western Force and the New South Wales Waratahs in Super Rugby and the Perth Spirit in the Australian National Rugby Championship.

Alex hails from a small country town Dundee, north of Glen Innes NSW in which there is a statue of him at the local campdraft grounds which he attends every Christmas Holidays.

His nickname “Nobby” relates to Bald Knob Road at Dundee.

When Alex returns to Australia he will automatically become the Mayor of Dundee to take over from Sir.