About the Author

Gavin Rich is an award-winning rugby writer who is ideally placed to write about the post-isolation Springbok coaches, as he covered the ?rst tour in 1992 and has remained on the beat ever since, a period of 21 years and 183 Tests. He went on tour with the Boks ?rst as the SA Morning Group man and then later as the group rugby writer for Independent Newspapers, before continuing his observations of the coaches as senior rugby correspondent for Supersport.com, the Weekend Argus and other publications, such as SA Rugby Magazine. Author of former Bok coach Peter de Villiers's bestselling autobiography, Politically Incorrect, this is Rich's second book. He was educated at Rhodes University and Northlands Boys High School.