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International Rugby
/ 1 year agoCian Healy keeps rolling the years away
By Peter Jackson - The man truly in the know Just when the All Blacks thought they had finally seen the...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 1 year agoWales get set for big Sunday crunch…
By Peter Jackson - The man truly in the know One weekend five summers ago, Wales went to No.1 in the...
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Features
/ 1 year agoMurray’s on a wing – and a prayer …
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW BLAIR Murray began the week ‘in a state of shock’ at having gone...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoFrench quick to dismiss ‘soft red’
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW ONLY France could ban one of their most notorious agents provocateurs for life,...
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/ 2 years agoHigh ticket prices for All Blacks cast dark shadow
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW WHEN the RFU finished doing their sums for the autumn series of Twickenham’s...
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Features
/ 2 years agoI’ll play for Wales again, says Francis
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Strong man: Tomas Francis scoring for Wales against Georgia at last year’s World...
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Features
/ 2 years agoTen years on and a handful still stand
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Veteran: George Ford playing against Australia in November 2014 PICTURE: Getty Images NOVEMBER...
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Miscellaneous
/ 2 years agoMaverick Shea the hardest of them all
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW NEWPORT heralded the season with a birthday bash on a lavish scale, filling...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoMagic of the Lions will attract record crowd
By Peter Jackson - The man truly in the know At the Melbourne Cricket Ground on July 25 next year, the...
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/ 2 years agoNucifora shows the way forward
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Master: David Nucifora will start work with Scotland in December PICTURE: Getty Images...
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Features
/ 2 years agoPrice glad he played under old regime
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW AT Pontypool Park on September 24, 1986, with the sweet chestnut trees in...
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Features
/ 2 years agoBoulton’s respect for game he loves
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW COLIN Boulton of Derby County stands astride the Himalayan peaks of Football League...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoAs fit as a Lion in the Congo
PETER JACKSON THEY stood outside a 7th century church perched above St Bride’s Bay for hours on Friday, the old Lions...
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/ 2 years agoEight reasons to be cheerful for Cardiff
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW What a start: Efan Daniel playing for Cardiff last season PICTURE: Getty Images...
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Features
/ 2 years agoBerry’s briefest of brief encounters…
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW TEN summer Olympiads have come and all but gone since Marty Berry went...
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/ 2 years agoFearless beach boy who ran with Lions
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW PETER Morgan’s day would begin at the crack of dawn on a Pembrokeshire...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoWales in danger of a Lions wipe out
PETER JACKSON - THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW EVER since the ‘British Isles Rugby Union Team’ became the Lions 100 years...
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Features
/ 2 years agoAll Black who was bristling with pride
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW On the front foot: Norm Hewitt leads the Haka before a match against...
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International Rugby
/ 2 years agoWales show defiance but the wait goes on
PETER JACKSON All week long the Red Dragon legions had planned their regimental mobilisation with just enough military precision to let...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoPeter Jackson: Warrior Peter O’Mahony learns a brutal lesson
A Grand Slam winner last year, Peter O’Mahony backed it up by captaining Ireland to a second successive Six Nations title.
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/ 2 years agoLest we forget: The bravery of the fallen
PETER JACKSON It's a long way from Maesteg to Mametz Wood, from a mining community in the Llynfi Valley to a...
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/ 2 years agoWainwright stands out as Wales fail to impress
PETER JACKSON Political swings being all the rage, the sixth-best team in the Six Nations duly fell victim to one of...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoJack’s philosophy? Win today, win tomorrow…
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Of all the enduring memories from Jack Rowell’s tumultuous time in charge of...
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Features
/ 2 years agoPenaud proves the ultimate in French flair
Peter Jackson adds up the points scored last season across all games and finds the French with much to celebrate Damian...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoGatland hits the 50-mark for Wales
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Unless they change the habit of a lifetime in Australia over the next...
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/ 2 years agoEtzebeth puts it on the line
PETER JACKSON Rising high: Peter O’Mahony, left, competes at the lineout with Eben Etzebeth PICTURE: Getty Images EBEN Etzebeth has never...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoSpongeBob glad of his place in the Oldies XV
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW TWENTY years ago this very week on the banks of the Clyde, New...
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Features
/ 2 years agoQuartet help Cardiff pull off unlikely double
Peter Jackson discovers which clubs and players come out best and worst when it comes to red and yellow cards Despite...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoHill’s recall flies in the face of loyalty
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Cory Hill walked out of the Wales squad last summer, preferring to join...
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/ 2 years agoThe day Meredith made history
PETER JACKSON Courtenay Meredith spent the last 71 years of an exceptionally long life with something to shout about over what...
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Features
/ 2 years agoShattering end to Iestyn’s dreams
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Iestyn Harris had only just started to run with a rugby ball when...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoQuins cashing in on Twickenham factor
Peter Jackson looks at how attendances have changed in the last 20 years and sees good news in the capital cities...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoSorry, but we don’t need your cup, Wills
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Of all the trophies dreamt up for international matches over the last 20...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoDupont’s the best I’ve seen in pro era
There have been many landslide victories in sport but never one like Antoine Dupont’s in London last weekend, the most commanding...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 2 years agoTry tsunami sends a mixed message
Peter Jackson looks at an increase in points scored but suggests the figures may be hiding a problem for the Premiership....
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoDay O’Reilly missed out on Hollywood
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW When he last spoke in public, at his old Dublin rugby club a few hefty...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoThe £20m circus which led to a World Cup
David Lord would kick off every email to The Rugby Paper during the last years of his life in the down-to-earth...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoJust listen, Leighton had ability to be rugby star
PETER JACKSON - THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Upon his death last month at the age of 71, Leighton James...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoDavies the leading light in Welsh quartet
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Four international fly-halves took flight from Wales last year, understandably so given the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoWhen Goodall was the bigger man
Ken Goodall shall forever be remembered as one of Ireland‘s greatest back row forwards, a humble man with a freakish talent...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoWales will be caught out if Carre steps up
Rhys Carre’s imminent exit from the Arms Park comes at the end of a season when Wales steadfastly ignored him while...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoLouis has sights set on Kansas gold rush
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The latest phase of his footballing reincarnation took Louis Rees-Zammit to a school...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 2 years agoWales no longer the big shots
The schedule of 21 Tests over five weekends in November offers renewed evidence of the spiralling gap between Ireland and Wales....
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoAwayday struggles
Having endured more than their share of hard times in following a club which once described itself in all immodesty as...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years ago‘Ireland in blue’ will provide stiffest test
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Phil Dowson and Leo Cullen first crossed paths in European action 10 seasons...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoLion who enjoyed a taste of Italy
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW ANDREA Gazzi’s grave lies on the Inner Hebridean island of Islay, a long...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoBarrett, the man for every occasion
As a centre-three-quarter par excellence, there is nothing Jordie Barrett cannot do. Nobody in his position can truck it up the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoThe Sheriff will be sorely missed
PETER JACKSON The gods played a dirty trick in denying Ken Owens a farewell appearance for his beloved Wales and...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoRugby schedule has little to do with player welfare
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW A roll of drums and a fanfare of trumpets late last summer heralded...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoPienaar heads the list for Europe’s golden oldies
In the course of wheeling their way into the Challenge Cup quarter-finals last weekend against the Cheetahs, the Michelin Men of...
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