GREG GROWDEN is a leading authority on Australian rugby. A senior sportswriter for The Sydney Morning Herald for more than three decades, he was the SMH and Sun-Herald’s chief rugby union correspondent between 1987 and 2012, covering hundreds of Test matches, more than 20 Wallaby tours and every World Cup tournament – and is one of just three international rugby writers to have covered all eight World Cups. He is currently ESPN’s columnist-at-large in Australia, writing on numerous sports, and is the author of several previous books.