In the past few months there has been a lot of good things happening in Australian Rugby, such as the launch of our first national competition the ARC, which has been provided some of the most entertaining rugby I’ve ever seen. We’ve also seen a Wallabies victory over the All Blacks and of course the build up to a world cup campaign in which we are looking very strong at third favourite.
So, one would expect some positive press from the Chief Rugby Correspondent at the nations biggest and oldest paper? Not so! Instead we’ve heard about
- hypothetical contract terminations from Matt Giteau and Lote Tuqiri, both of which were not checked with the players concerned, and both of which have since been denied by the players and their management
- rumours of discontent between coaches
- rumours of discontent between players and management
- rumours of discontent between players and players (Huxley)
- alleged financial mismanagement at the Force ad nauseum (does anyone seriously care)
- “is this the Wallabies’ A team? Or merely the Wallabies’ A-frame team?” – today’s Monday Maul!
The only positive thing to come out from Greg’s column in recent memory was after the Wallabies victory over the All Blacks, that story being the quality of the pie cart at the MCG and how NSWRU would have to lift their game.
Enough is enough! His ramblings consistently give opposition teams motivation to step up against the Wallabies, and if the fact that our national coach would refuse to answer questions from him is not enough to realise his time has passed then I don’t know what will.
Click here to sign the Bone Greg petition.
Far be it from me to speak on behalf of the rugby public, here are some comments left on public websites recently regarding the man known as Grumbles Growden. GoTheTahs.com chook peter hughes JJ bonkdaddy The Jackal Green and Gold Rugby Blog Greg, you may have missed it but you were the chief detractor and most of the ’stuff’ that was written originated from you and your ‘highly placed sources’. The one thing about Growden’s follow up was the lack of out and out gloating. Is it possible that Greg’s sensing he’s gone too far? Am I hoping against hope? The Silver Fern naza barbarian Red Bull and many more comments, at the petition.
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he hates Gregan …. thinks the ARC sucks … is beating up a story about Wallaby disharmony ….. can’t agree with any of the selections
Pretty hard to defend Pie Growden when it comes to reporting. He is always keen to fall on the negative side of a story rather than the positives. I can only assume he styles himself as ‘chief’ rugby correspondent for SMH and in doing so you would have thought he would have promoted all aspects of the game we love, when you consider that he’s writing for an east coast audience in the toughest sports viewing part of the country.
The only recent positive report from him has been about the improvement of the pies and gravy at a certain sport venue in Sydney.
Growden is a GOOSE and has been writing crap articles in SMH for years.
Besides for his constant bullsh1t muck-raking the guy has little Rugby knowledge and zero rugby pedigree I’m aware of. Did he even play the game ??
Enough! Rugby supporters, we must silence this fool
he only does it so people can read his crap articles .. the guy has no substance or any evidence in his claims ..
everytime i click into rugbyheaven.com.au i get really annoyed when his picture is right in the middle of the page
Is this for real or just another of Pieman’s Mad Monday Bullsh1t??
I go on holiday for two days and look what happens. In the space of 48 hours, Gossiping Greg managed to bungle a story about Matt Giteau and then get singled out at a Wallaby press conference as a prize d1ck-head by the Australian Coach, thus causing an incident involving John O’Neil, CEO of the ARU. Great going Greg!
Ash
The amount of hatred and bile directed at the ARU by Growden every week absolutely amazes me.
The biggest thing I find amusing, though, is the title on all of his article – “Greg Growden – Chief Rugby Correspondent”.
How many club games does Growden get out to ? He hadn’t seen Kurtley Beale play til he turned out for NSW – does that mean he never watches Australian schoolboys matches ?
It just sh1ts me that Growden thinks he’s some gossip columnist with the inside word- a ‘deep throat’ if you will inside the ARU. Most of the ’secrets’ he reveals are pretty obvious really.
I f**king hate him with a passion. He rates himself far too highly.
