Greg Growden
Greg Growden is Chief Rugby Correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald
Rugby
Sleep-deprived Foley can arise from his bed of nails - but he can't rest easy with rotation issues looming
Greg Growden Next to where the Waratahs have their powwows at Moore Park is a small room that houses several bunk beds.
Union
Red faces on a black day
Greg Growden At Eden Park, a capacity crowd - loving every minute of the Wallabies being brutally carved up by the All Blacks butchers - were involved in a red-nose day for charity.
Wallabies ready for character test
Greg Growden ROSARIO: Wallabies captain Nathan Sharpe has told his players that even though they are missing a long line of key performers they can still prove they are a team with special character by rebounding...
Rugby
Cummins, Tapuai plug latest gaps in Test team
Greg Growden ROSARIO: The Wallabies merry-go-round continues to spin with two more newcomers - Nick Cummins and Ben Tapuai - joining the Test team, taking the tally of players who have appeared in the green and...
Pumas beware: aggressive Honey Badger on prowl
Greg Growden ROSARIO: For the Honey Badger, the choice was simple: the mines, the army or Randwick.
Rugby
Wounded and weary Wallabies relying on pride to earn result
Greg Growden ROSARIO: Wherever they have gone in Argentina this week, there has been no reprieve for the Wallabies.
Off-the-ball exchanges a winner
Greg Growden No matter if they are victors or losers today, the Wallabies will leave Argentina having won over the locals.
Rugby Union
Wallabies told: No bull, it will be rough
Greg Growden Wallabies warned they are about to be involved in confronting and demanding Test match.
Rugby
Laser-boot Harris guides Wallabies home
Greg Growden The Wallabies enjoyed one of their most courageous wins in recent times when they overcame an Argentine ambush in Rosario this morning.
Something's brewing: time for this well-fed scribe to bid adios
Greg Growden It all began 30 years ago. Australia v Scotland. Sydney Cricket Ground. After babbling my first Test match report for The Sun-Herald country edition to a similarly confused copytaker back in the old...
Rugby
Beale gets recall as Cooper fires up
Greg Growden JOHANNESBURG: Kurtley Beale is psyching himself up for his first starting appearance in the Wallabies No.
Rugby
Boks ready to exploit Beale the bold
Greg Growden JOHANNESBURG: The Springboks were quick to apply the drip treatment on the new Wallabies five-eighth Kurtley Beale by arguing his selection will help their game plan during Saturday night's Test in...
Injury merry-go-round compounds captaincy conundrum
Greg Growden The Wallabies have received encouraging news about their end-of-season northern hemisphere tour.
Du Plessis upfront about criticism
Greg Growden JOHANNESBURG: Springbok tight-head prop Jannie Du Plessis was reticent to say the Wallabies pack got away with illegalities, but he said it anyway.
Union
Wallabies unsettled by Cooper's outburst
Greg Growden, Pretoria He is thousands of kilometres away, but Quade Cooper's shadow hangs over the Wallabies.
ARU boss to discuss comments with Cooper after 'cooling off'
Greg Growden PRETORIA: The Australian Rugby Union will wait until after the end of the Rugby Championship to try to solve its dispute with disenchanted Test five-eighth Quade Cooper.
Rugby
Broken Wallabies humiliated by South Africa
Greg Growden The Wallabies were smashed up and spat out by the Springboks, thrashed five tries to one while suffering a horrendous injury toll at Loftus Versfeld this morning.
Rugby Union
Injury toll in Wallabies loss
Greg Growden, Pretoria Wallabies coach Robbie Deans admitted he had never witnessed a more bizarre Test.
SUNDAY MAUL
Changes are afoot under Cheika
Greg Growden It hasn't taken long for new Waratahs coach Michael Cheika to make an impact on the troubled province.
Rugby
Battered and bruised, Wallabies must make stand in Argentina
Greg Growden Australian Rugby has endured the most dreadful of weeks. And next week could be even worse, with the Wallabies heading deeper into the horror tour from hell.
