Peter Jackson

Safety first as red cards rise to an all-time high

11 June 2023 0 comments

Peter Jackson finds that only Ireland kept on the right side of every referee as the game gets to grips with improved safety Red cards […]

Top Cat happy to recall the glory days

11 June 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW THE only man to captain Wales, coach Wales, select Wales, manage Wales, and the Lions, is sitting […]

There’s no stopping Ramos

11 June 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Thomas Ramos is en route to finishing the season 100 or so points clear of his nearest challenger across Europe’s three major Leagues. […]

After this, Prince Harry could be calling AWJ

11 June 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Alun Wyn Jones continues to treat ‘the media’ with such contempt that it may be but a matter of time before Prince Harry […]

Following famous footsteps

4 June 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON When he lived in one of London’s swishest hotels at the height of his trans-Atlantic stardom, Richard Harris made a confession over a […]

McCaw tips Wales to cause carnage

4 June 2023 0 comments

THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW When it comes to talking about ‘carnage’ at the World Cup, nobody is more impeccably qualified on the subject […]

Keyboard warriors target Carre case

4 June 2023 0 comments

The Welsh Rugby Union has been bombarded from all directions all year that it seems almost unfair to point out that they are under renewed […]

Eddie is putting his mind to it

4 June 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Australia scrum-half Nic White came up with an interesting observation on Eddie Jones finding room for three psychologists in the Wallaby entourage as […]

Putting the boot in – but not if it’s bright green …

28 May 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Tawera Kerr-Barlow’s fluorescent green boots, as worn when La Rochelle dared to give Leinster a 17-point start […]

Alarm as Europe just keeps getting smaller

28 May 2023 0 comments

Europe, as defined by European Professional Club Rugby, is in the process of shrinking almost as alarmingly as the English Premiership. Where one organisation loses […]

O’Gara’s touch of Old Big ’Ead

28 May 2023 0 comments

On the face of it, Brian Clough and Ronan O’Gara do not appear to have much in common: different ball games, different countries, different personalities […]

Kerr-Barlow pines for Eddie

24 May 2023 0 comments

Tawera Kerr-Barlow, probably the second best scrum-half in the world behind you-know-who, would love to do the Southern Hemisphere equivalent of Henry Thomas switching allegiance […]

Dallaglio’s turned into Nostradamus

21 May 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Of the 12 clubs to have won European rugby’s supreme prize, only one dared to do so […]

Toulouse’s homemade champions

21 May 2023 0 comments

The original champions of Europe could have put their collective feet up on Saturday knowing that neither contender in Dublin would come remotely close to […]

Sorrowful shadow blights the game

14 May 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW FOR month after miserable month, Welsh rugby had been crying out for someone to give their apology […]

Warriors gather for Coulman farewell

14 May 2023 0 comments

Old warriors from both sides of what used to be The Great Divide joined early on Monday afternoon to pay their last respects to one […]

The day one smart man showed us how to behave

7 May 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The last time Wales selected an English prop, Colin Smart of Newport, they made the mistake of […]

Arresting sight of Coulman’s solo gallop

30 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW AT Twickenham more than 50 years ago, Mike Coulman did something that had not been seen there […]

Welsh quartet deserve no favours

30 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Cardiff lost 50 per cent of their matches in the URC and duly failed to finish in the Champions Cup qualifying zone. That […]

Proud Lions standing the test of time

30 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Despite having celebrated his 93rd birthday earlier this month, Lewis Jones might consider himself a bit of a Johnny-come-lately compared to the grandest […]

After 23 years, it’s all over for Myler

23 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The longest career of the 21st century came to a cruelly anti-climactic end yesterday, its creator denied […]

Nevers is taken over by the mob

23 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Nevers is about as close to being smack bang in the centre of France as any city gets, a place which has known […]

Case of the lesser spotted Test stars

16 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Nobody takes a bigger bashing from Test rugby than the Welsh regions which explains why some players […]

Sorry, Rob, but there’s a price to pay for indiscipline

16 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON So Rob Baxter wishes to obliterate the deterrent effect of the red card by allowing sent-off players to be replaced, thereby saving matches […]

When Lewis made history for the Lions

16 April 2023 0 comments

At home in his adopted Yorkshire the other day, Lewis Jones answered the phone with a cheerful response to being wished a happy birthday. “How […]

So where have all the fly-halves gone?

9 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Since the last World Cup, Wales have picked eight fly-halves. By the end of the next one, […]

Montpellier deserve better

9 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE organisers of Europe’s blue riband club event had all week to make a public apology for heaping one injustice after another on […]

One man who made sure he went the distance

9 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON There have been no shortage of X-certificate England-Wales matches, notably the notorious 1980 scrap at Twickenham when all manner of grevious bodily harm […]

AWJ out to climb his final mountain

2 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Warrior: Alun Wyn Jones in action against Saracens in 2008 PICTURE: Getty Images FOR the last 17 […]

When Peter enjoyed his day in the sun

2 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Peter Thomas never seemed happier than on a blazing summer’s day by the shores of the Mediterranean. Cardiff, the club he repeatedly rescued […]

Time to stop the rot that is dragging WRU down

26 March 2023 2 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Had Shakespeare been around to rewrite Hamlet as a footballing fiasco, a tiny tweak to one of […]

All over for Evans after 111 lineouts

26 March 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON The Beatles’ first album and Ron Evans’ landing on the international stage happened as near simultaneously in 1963 as made no difference. Please, […]

McKinney will donate his brain to science

19 March 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Stewart McKinney’s name will forever be enshrined in the Lions pantheon alongside the few whose invincibility in […]

Bob Burrows, the man who opened door for Living with Lions

19 March 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Bob Burrows joined the BBC from Fleet Street via the Yorkshire Post during the heady days of late summer 1966 over England’s footballers […]

Benny’s charity gets off to a flier

19 March 2023 1 comment

PETER JACKSON Phil Bennett would not have believed it possible that a dinner to mark the launch of a charity in his name would raise […]

Biggar sets sights on World Cup finale

12 March 2023 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Dan Biggar started the season as captain of Wales, all the wiser for having gone from one […]

The day Hill saw Llanelli’s pubs run dry

12 March 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Andy Hill was a painter and decorator by trade, never to more devastating effect than at Stradey Park on Halloween 1972 when his […]

Days when being sent off was not common

5 March 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW What happened in Paris last Sunday added an ironic postscript to a time when the home countries […]

Battle cry will always remind us of ‘Briano’

5 March 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE massed regiments of the Red Army will never forget Brian O’Brien. They will ensure he is remembered across every square inch of […]

Pointless! Wales have nothing to show in this bleakest of winters

26 February 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Despite issuing an avalanche of apologies over scandals on and off the pitch, Welsh rugby’s besieged management were left staring last night at […]

Southern invasion gives no comfort

26 February 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW When the rest of Welsh rugby kept falling to its knees before their ‘Great Redeeemer’, one man […]

Even acting CEO Walker must wonder how it all came to this

26 February 2023 0 comments

Another week of crisis management brought another damning indictment of the Welsh Rugby Union’s policy to any bone of contention: ‘Say nothing, keep saying nothing […]

Biggar has no one to blame but himself

19 February 2023 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Had Wales only opted to man the picket lines outside Murrayfield instead of the barricades inside, Dan […]

Ireland show just how farWales have to go

19 February 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON • A Ferrari is said to go from a standstill to 50mph in 2.9 seconds. The one seen at Twickenham last Sunday went […]

When the boys of ’68 were set to strike

19 February 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Only two world wars have interrupted the annual England-Wales fixture since its inception on Mr Richardson’s Field in the London suburb of Blackheath […]

Charlie’s move to roll back the years

12 February 2023 15 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Charlie Faulkner will be remembered for his many achievements; from judo black belt to the Pontypool Front […]

Pilgrimage to Murrayfield which is still going after 60 years

12 February 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON At six o’clock last Wednesday morning a bus pulled away from the Miners Arms out into Lewis Street on a pilgrimage north over […]

Questions hovering over Blanc departure

5 February 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW One year, one month and one week after she left without a peep from the Welsh Rugby […]

He was gone! Scown joins in the fun over that try

5 February 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON So many came to celebrate The Try Of The Century that it might almost have looked like a latter-day feeding of the 5,000, […]

Gatland still has an Irish score to settle

29 January 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW AS traumatic Six Nations’ finales go, the one when Ireland under Warren Gatland barged another English Grand […]

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