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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoWarriors gather for Coulman farewell
Old warriors from both sides of what used to be The Great Divide joined early on Monday afternoon to pay their...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoThe day one smart man showed us how to behave
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The last time Wales selected an English prop, Colin Smart of Newport, they...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoArresting sight of Coulman’s solo gallop
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW AT Twickenham more than 50 years ago, Mike Coulman did something that had...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoWelsh quartet deserve no favours
PETER JACKSON Cardiff lost 50 per cent of their matches in the URC and duly failed to finish in the Champions...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoProud Lions standing the test of time
PETER JACKSON Despite having celebrated his 93rd birthday earlier this month, Lewis Jones might consider himself a bit of a Johnny-come-lately...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoAfter 23 years, it’s all over for Myler
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The longest career of the 21st century came to a cruelly anti-climactic end...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoNevers is taken over by the mob
PETER JACKSON Nevers is about as close to being smack bang in the centre of France as any city gets, a...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoCase of the lesser spotted Test stars
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Nobody takes a bigger bashing from Test rugby than the Welsh regions which...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoSorry, Rob, but there’s a price to pay for indiscipline
PETER JACKSON So Rob Baxter wishes to obliterate the deterrent effect of the red card by allowing sent-off players to be...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoWhen Lewis made history for the Lions
At home in his adopted Yorkshire the other day, Lewis Jones answered the phone with a cheerful response to being wished...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoSo where have all the fly-halves gone?
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Since the last World Cup, Wales have picked eight fly-halves. By the end...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoMontpellier deserve better
PETER JACKSON THE organisers of Europe’s blue riband club event had all week to make a public apology for heaping one...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoOne man who made sure he went the distance
PETER JACKSON There have been no shortage of X-certificate England-Wales matches, notably the notorious 1980 scrap at Twickenham when all manner...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoAWJ out to climb his final mountain
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Warrior: Alun Wyn Jones in action against Saracens in 2008 PICTURE: Getty Images...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoWhen Peter enjoyed his day in the sun
PETER JACKSON Peter Thomas never seemed happier than on a blazing summer’s day by the shores of the Mediterranean. Cardiff, the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoTime to stop the rot that is dragging WRU down
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Had Shakespeare been around to rewrite Hamlet as a footballing fiasco, a tiny...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoAll over for Evans after 111 lineouts
PETER JACKSON The Beatles’ first album and Ron Evans’ landing on the international stage happened as near simultaneously in 1963 as...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoMcKinney will donate his brain to science
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Stewart McKinney’s name will forever be enshrined in the Lions pantheon alongside the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoBob Burrows, the man who opened door for Living with Lions
PETER JACKSON Bob Burrows joined the BBC from Fleet Street via the Yorkshire Post during the heady days of late summer...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoBenny’s charity gets off to a flier
PETER JACKSON Phil Bennett would not have believed it possible that a dinner to mark the launch of a charity in...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoBiggar sets sights on World Cup finale
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Dan Biggar started the season as captain of Wales, all the wiser for...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoThe day Hill saw Llanelli’s pubs run dry
PETER JACKSON Andy Hill was a painter and decorator by trade, never to more devastating effect than at Stradey Park on...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoDays when being sent off was not common
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW What happened in Paris last Sunday added an ironic postscript to a time...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoBattle cry will always remind us of ‘Briano’
PETER JACKSON THE massed regiments of the Red Army will never forget Brian O’Brien. They will ensure he is remembered across...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoPointless! Wales have nothing to show in this bleakest of winters
PETER JACKSON Despite issuing an avalanche of apologies over scandals on and off the pitch, Welsh rugby’s besieged management were left...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoSouthern invasion gives no comfort
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW When the rest of Welsh rugby kept falling to its knees before their...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoEven acting CEO Walker must wonder how it all came to this
Another week of crisis management brought another damning indictment of the Welsh Rugby Union’s policy to any bone of contention: ‘Say...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoBiggar has no one to blame but himself
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Had Wales only opted to man the picket lines outside Murrayfield instead of...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoIreland show just how farWales have to go
PETER JACKSON • A Ferrari is said to go from a standstill to 50mph in 2.9 seconds. The one seen at...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoWhen the boys of ’68 were set to strike
PETER JACKSON Only two world wars have interrupted the annual England-Wales fixture since its inception on Mr Richardson’s Field in the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoCharlie’s move to roll back the years
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Charlie Faulkner will be remembered for his many achievements; from judo black belt...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoPilgrimage to Murrayfield which is still going after 60 years
PETER JACKSON At six o’clock last Wednesday morning a bus pulled away from the Miners Arms out into Lewis Street on...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoQuestions hovering over Blanc departure
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW One year, one month and one week after she left without a peep...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoHe was gone! Scown joins in the fun over that try
PETER JACKSON So many came to celebrate The Try Of The Century that it might almost have looked like a latter-day...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoGatland still has an Irish score to settle
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW AS traumatic Six Nations’ finales go, the one when Ireland under Warren Gatland...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoHollow words from WRU over ‘toxic sexism’
PETER JACKSON For more than 12 months since her abrupt exit, the Welsh Rugby Union hierarchy offered nothing more than a...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoThe Sheriff riding in to rescue Wales
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Somewhere up there on the Elysian Fields, word might have reached Eric Evans...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoThe real glam rockers back in town
Sir Gareth Edwards and some of his famous old contemporaries strode into the Arms Park where over a period of 14...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoThirsty fans prepare for opening time
The whiff of the Six Nations is blowing on the wind, its imminent arrival heralded by proclamations in Dublin and Cardiff...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoMcConnochie heads ‘home’
Ruaridh McConnochie says that it has been a ‘childhood dream’ to play for Scotland. In that event, some may find it...
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Features
/ 3 years agoPlaying rugby with style, class and fun
David Duckham, who has died at the age of 76, will be remembered as one of the all-time greats of the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoFrom the Mad Giraffe to Zatopek’s protege
PETER JACKSON And so to the New Year list with a difference, Honours and Dishonours in roughly equal measure thereby ensuring...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoSign of the times may cause a hulabaloo
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Any day now, tradesmen will move into six of Europe’s most famous stadia...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoSad to hear laughter over Traore incident
PETER JACKSON WHEN those at the ‘Secret Santa’ party hosted by the Benetton squad laughed at Cherif Traore unwrapping an over-ripe...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoCoach who put heart and soul into north
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Steve Borthwick’s anointment revives England’s tradition of northern head coaches, the most colourful...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoCole’s 15 years at the workface
By Peter Jackson Dan Cole’s 300 matches for Leicester took him a few weeks longer than 15 years to compile. Few...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoImitation games are so sad for real fans
By Peter Jackson Once upon a time, the Heineken Cup was so good that there were weekends when it surpassed the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoIt’s time to look at a new route to Europe
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW ONE Sunday afternoon in Watford 20 years ago, Saracens hosted a match designed...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoLaporte does not forgive – or forget
Peter Jackson Once upon a time, during the early stages of his seven-year reign as France head coach, Bernard Laporte strode...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoWales simply have to take Rowlands to the World Cup
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Those who drew up the four top seedings for the World Cup defied...















