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Mark Drummond is an award-winning former rugby, business and chief reporter for The West Australian newspaper, WA bureau chief of the Australian Financial Review and correspondent for various rugby publications including the NZ Rugby News. He published his first book in 2009 on the history of the Nedlands Rugby Club in Perth, for which he played more than 200 club games throughout the grades (including seven premierships with the mighty Nomads) and coached and managed junior teams for another 13 years. He grew up in the South Island town of Motueka, picking tobacco in the school holidays.
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