Shehadie a giant of game

AS a former record-setting Wallabies captain, Sir Nicholas Shehadie will be remembered as a towering figure of Australian rugby.

But that alone would also be underselling Shehadie, who died on Sunday aged 92.

The legacy of Shehadie is the Rugby World Cup, often said to be the world’s third-biggest sporting event.

Put simply, the RWC would not have been created in the mid-1980s were it not for the drive and vision of Shehadie and his like-minded agitators.