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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: The ancient battleground welcomes Warren Gatland again
So Warren Gatland has felt it necessary to make a pre-emptive strike aimed at reducing the hostility level towards him in...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson’s verdict on Wales: So close as Wales dodge a Tyson KO
For a few startling minutes towards the end, Wales ran the risk of falling victim to the biggest upset in Six...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Dr Ron still at the head of Grand Slam pack
It has been said of Dr Ronald Cove-Smith that he never turned up on a Saturday afternoon without his little black...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Rookie 10s can shape outcome of Six Nations
The Six Nations cast for 2014 includes seven fly-halves who have yet to play in the tournament and seven more who...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Italy arrive in Wales on a wing and a blessing
Italy come to Cardiff for the opening match in the Six Nations next month armed with something different, a Papal blessing....
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Let’s spare a thought for Toggie and Tanky
Freddy ‘Tanky’ Turner captained Scotland one hundred years ago, a Liverpudlian by birth who worked in the family printing business and...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Cliff was out of this world, but Barry was untouchable!
New Year gongs will be all the rage all too soon, a good enough excuse to enter the festive spirit and...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: All Blacks chase the dollar in Big Apple
The All Blacks have announced their intention to cash in on the American market with a match in New York next...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Shameful memories for Wales in South Africa
As the top man in the world game, Bernard Lapasset paid due homage to Nelson Mandela on behalf of “the rugby...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Top dogs in Europe have bark but no bite
When they opened the roof after the Wallabies had done their level best to bring the house down, Wales were left...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Luke Charteris’ uncool hands mean try wait goes on
Luke Charteris threw himself back into the day job in France at the weekend, wondering why there is still no international...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: The joke’s wearing thin for Warren Gatland
This is getting beyond a joke. The more Wales fail to answer needling jibes about their ‘mental barrier’, the more the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Wales will count cost of vanishing 70,000 fans
For the second time in six days, Wales went about their business in Cardiff on Friday night in front of more...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Departure of Jonathan Davies highlights WRU feud
Jonathan Davies will more than double his money at Clermont this season, a move into the £400,000-a-year bracket befitting a player...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Brave rebel Byron Hayward is still blazing his own trail
Of the 1,109 players capped by Wales, only one began by scoring a hat-trick of tries on debut as a second-half...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Wales must speak out over shame of Mike Phillips
According to Alain Afflelou, only his presidential intervention prevented Bayonne giving Mike Phillips the order of the boot 12 months ago. Afflelou...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Threadbare Wales are on a wing and a prayer
Wales will go into their annual home bash at the Southern Hemisphere down to the bare bones in specialist wings. They...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Fifty years on, the kick that rocked the world as Newport beat the All Blacks
Dick Uzzell and his old comrades will be given the freedom of Newport next week in belated recognition of something they...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Ireland’s new star is made in Wales
At the end of a week when English football got its knickers in a nationality twist, Ireland‘s next scrum-half can be...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Regrets? I’ve got a few about Cup admits Ring
Once upon a time long ago, Mark Ring found himself within touching distance of lifting the European Cup in his very...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Pullin much more than a master of the one-liner
John Pullin has long deserved special mention in the folklore of Anglo-Irish rugby, not so much for what he did on...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Ignore all that ghostly talk, Phillips is a fixture
At the end of the Lions tour, Mike Phillips used his newspaper column to suggest that he might soon be calling...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Ah You Irish? Well, that’s complicated, Rodney!
Rodney Ah You arrived in Belfast as a hefty member of the baby All Blacks in 2007 and duly went home...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Ten years on, Coombs is overnight sensation!
When it comes to recurring rejection in pursuit of a professional career, Andrew Coombs deserves to be out on his own...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Peerless Morgan, a master of all trades
Tony O’Reilly described Cliff Morgan as “the greatest of them all”, an accolade based on the ketchup king’s appreciation of his...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Groundhog Day, and Gav blinks back into the light
During the course of fox-trotting his way into five clubs over 20 months, Gavin Henson has danced to the same old...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: No favours for Fiji as All Blacks pick Japan
The All Blacks could have played England or Wales in November and charged their going rate for an out-of-window Test of...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: How Toby almost fell into grasp of England
It won’t do them any good now but England will be kicking themselves for allowing Wales to take Toby Faletau from...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Kohn’s time turns out to be tweet and short
A new contender has emerged for the shortest international career on record, one whose claims had been lost amid the substitution...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: World Cup is a fitting finale for Hair Bear
PeOnly one prop has lasted long enough to win four Grand Slams – Jason Leonard over a period spanning the last...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Wales can cap it all with World Cup victory
By the time they finish their next match, Wales will be in serious contention for another title – The Most Capped...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: The first time ten Welsh stars won it for the Lions
Lewis Jones was playing cricket in Plymouth one Saturday afternoon long ago when he took the first step towards joining the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Don’t be fooled, the Lions are no angels
Every once in a while, the game is brought into more disrepute by the judiciary than by those dragged before them...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Watch out England, Wales find new Cullen
Sean Fitzpatrick caught a glimpse of the slight figure slicing through the muscle-bound Springboks and a famous name sprang to mind:...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Richard Hibbard, from dog-house to life with the big cats
Richard Hibbard came home from Australia this time last year fearing the worst, that he would never play for Wales again....
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Why it may pay to keep faith with Vunipolas
Before she takes morning service at Avenue Methodist Church in High Wycombe today (last Sunday), the Reverend Singa Vunipola will say...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Will next Warburton stand up now please!
Every Lions captain has to begin somewhere as an international player but only one began in the middle of nowhere. Four...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Leigh’s the guardian ‘angel’ for home club
Gorseinon RFC have done more than their bit for the international game over the last half century – from Onllwyn Brace...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Forgotten Byrne can join select Welsh club
A new name ought to be added to Europe’s painfully small Welsh roll of honour next weekend, a player long declared...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Wales have been down and laid out Down Under
The Welsh usually run into trouble in Australia, big trouble. As a sport, trying to tie the Wallaby down in his...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Black time for Blues underlines Euro row
Cardiff Blues have played 30 matches in all competitions this season and lost 20 of them – two defeats in every...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: All Blacks rest cure will cost WRU £4m
The All Blacks have torn a gaping hole in Wales‘ autumn schedule, one damaging enough to run into seven figures. Instead...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: You’re lucky George, they said Lewis sold his soul
Lewis Jones remembers what it was like when he left Llanelli, how all hell broke loose over his transfer to Leeds...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Give me just a little more time, begs Olly
Olly Kohn has no intention of ending up as cannon-fodder for any bright sparks on Brain of Britain or University Challenge...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Drumrolls, but the big act has yet to appear
The Welsh Rugby Union considered their announcement important enough to carry a ‘strict embargo’ until one minute past midnight on the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Hold it all! England have won the title…
When the Six Nations discuss the ‘on-going’ issue of bonus points, they would be well advised to examine the distorted impact...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Welsh will grab Lions share for Australia
After smashing the team that smashed the All Blacks, Wales will take the Lions’ share when the Test series begins against...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Trust me, Cardiff jinx waits for Lancaster!
At a dinner in London some years ago, the English defined their rugby relationship with the Welsh as one based on...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: It’s whisky galore if Telfer tribe triumph
When Scotland last won three matches on the bounce in the same Championship, they showed their gratitude to Wales by sending...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson talks to Maesteg coach Richard Webster about the startling decline of Welsh club rugby
There was a time when the Welsh club game was the envy of the rugby world, when popular legend had it...
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