Peter Jackson

Inga taught Edwards to box clever

20 March 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON VA’AIGA Tuigamala, the cross-code superstar, lay in state at Waitakere Stadium in suburban Auckland the day before his funeral last week. Half a […]

Exeter’s gain is a big loss for Wales

13 March 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSONTHE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW With a surname like his, Tom O’Flaherty sounds as though he ought to be a godsend for Ireland, […]

Cups galore but there’s room for one more

13 March 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON FOR decade after decade, the old fogies responsible for running the world’s oldest annual international sporting event steadfastly refused to recognise it as […]

How could Francis be deemed fit to return?

6 March 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSONTHE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Professor John Fairclough is staring at a video of the 20th minute collision at Twickenham last weekend which […]

In adversity, Italy earn legion of admirers

6 March 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON EVER since the Five became Six, no captain had found himself in an emergency as grim as the one that confronted Michele Lamaro […]

Pied Piper Inga was worth his weight

27 February 2022 3 comments

PETER JACKSON AN icy wind blew in off the Tyne the day Sir John Hall interrupted a Spanish holiday to preside over a rugby signing […]

Black wasn’t always on sunny side in Australia

27 February 2022 2 comments

PETER JACKSONTHE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW A veritable torrent of tributes has been flowing since Steve Black’s sudden death last Sunday and yet one […]

Memory of Gibbs’ try never fades for Dafydd

20 February 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSONTHE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Storm Dudley howled along the Porthcawl seafront as if defying a middle-aged Lion to recall that heavenly Sunday […]

Biggar looks like he’s enjoying himself

20 February 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON DAN Biggar, duly lauded for the dropgoal which did for Scotland last week, is to be congratulated for something else, bringing a light […]

Irish imports pay their way better than Welsh

13 February 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Ireland showing Wales the way goes beyond what happened in the Six Nations last week and has […]

Let’s tip a top hat to Varsity showman

13 February 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON EXACTLY 150 years ago last Thursday, Oxford beat Cambridge in the inaugural Varsity match under the captaincy of a teenager who would have […]

Sidestep on booze is as weak as the new beer

6 February 2022 2 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The Welsh Rugby Union’s half-hearted attempt to rectify their stadium’s portrayal as the world’s biggest pub prompted […]

Intrepid Robin was reliant for telling truth

6 February 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON NOBODY understood the old tribalism of Welsh club rugby better than Robin Davey. As chief rugby correspondent of the Newport-based South Wales Argus, […]

Sexton and Biggar aim to break tradition

30 January 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Johnny Sexton sets out on Saturday aiming to be the first flyhalf to skipper a Grand Slam […]

Blue means yellow in Wayne’s world

30 January 2022 2 comments

PETER JACKSON WAYNE Barnes, admirably true to form, set a shining example of how referees ought to react when players confront them with foul language. […]

Pearce advice falls on deaf ears

30 January 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON A CURIOUS exchange took place outside the Ulster dressing room last Saturday night, one which highlighted the professional game’s persisting failure to enforce […]

A crocks XV to take on the best

30 January 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON SO MANY established internationals will be missing from the Six Nations starting grid that it’s easily possible to pick a top rate XV […]

The Rugby Paper’s Six Nations preview: Green giants can cast long shadow over rivals

30 January 2022 0 comments

Amid the clinking cutlery and a few chinking glasses, The Rugby Paper’s brain’s trust gathered at Jeremy Guscott’s favourite Bath watering hole, Walcot House, to […]

Six Nations hits £20m jackpot of prize cash

23 January 2022 0 comments

By PETER JACKSON THE Six Nations will be playing for record sums in prize money of around £20m when the tournament kicks off on Saturday […]

Chatty men Sexton and Biggar give refs earache

23 January 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSONTHE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The most argumentative of fly-halves to be found in Europe, or anywhere else for that matter, are clearing […]

Gloucester have No.9 factory

23 January 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSON SINCE the turn of the century, three Gloucester scrum-halves have played for England: Willi Heinz, Peter Richards and Andy Gomarsall. Three more are […]

Met Uni duo keep it classy

23 January 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THEY are remembered at Cardiff Metropolitan University as ‘the king of the cream cakes’ and ‘the Cornish pastie kid’: aka Alex Dombrandt and […]

Wales lose Faletau and eight more Lions

16 January 2022 1 comment

By PETER JACKSON TAULUPE Faletau will miss the start of the Six Nations, leaving Wales to defend their title minus nine Lions. Bath’s back row […]

Ioan shows little guys can make big impact

16 January 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSONTHE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Had Cheslin Kolbe been watching Bristol’s last Premiership match at his pied a terre on the Mediterranean, he […]

Name of Ravenhill will always be special

16 January 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON FOR those born and bred on the northern side of the Irish border, Ravenhill will forever be synonymous with Ulster rugby.How demoralising, therefore, […]

Alfie’s part in Ruddock resignation is revealed

9 January 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Ashred of new evidence is shining a light on the most intriguing St Valentine’s Day bustup of […]

Liddell’s values honoured by SRU

9 January 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON ON A sharp New Year morning at his farm in the Borders, John Jeffrey switched off the engine of his tractor in honour […]

Taylor warns of booze danger

2 January 2022 1 comment

By PETER JACKSON WALES icon John Taylor has warned the WRU about the dangers of a ‘serious accident’ at the Principality Stadium fuelled by alcohol. […]

It is a bird, is it a plane? No it’s Liam on the field

2 January 2022 2 comments

PETER JACKSONTHE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Rare sighting: Liam Williams playing for Scarlets yesterdayPICTURE: Huw EvansTwo years have come and gone since Liam Williams […]

This celestial Lions match would be too close to call

2 January 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE game they play in heaven can rarely have been more competitive than it is at the dawning of a new year. The […]

Big-hearted Rees risked ruin for his doctor pals

2 January 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON FEW players could possibly have been more revered over the course of their lives than Brian Rees, from the Neath Grammar School 1st […]

Wales show what goes down must come up

26 December 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSONTHE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Ever ready to enter into the season of goodwill, this column welcomes you to a festive celebration on […]

North to miss start of the Six Nations

19 December 2021 0 comments

By PETER JACKSON In the roar: Joe Marchant celebrates scoring Harlequins’ fourth try against Cardiff PICTURE: Getty Images GEORGE North’s comeback is being delayed until […]

Champions or chumps? Cup caters for them all

19 December 2021 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW In the Super League for the overhyped, baseball’s World Series has long been out on its own, […]

Time for Amanda to break silence

19 December 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON IN THE Forbes’ list of the world’s 100 most powerful women, Amanda Blanc from Treherbert in the Rhondda ranks just behind the President […]

Flats and Donncha liven up the commentaries

12 December 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON AT THE halfway stage of another weekend of wall-towall live rugby, complete with inter-round summaries from coaches with uneven degrees of articulation, a […]

Silence of WRU over Amanda is baffling

12 December 2021 1 comment

PETER JACKSON FOR the third week in a row, the WRU offered nothing more than a stoney silence over Amanda Blanc’s abrupt resignation as the […]

Dupont puts Frenchmen back on top

12 December 2021 1 comment

PETER JACKSON ANTOINE Dupont is the fifth from the Top 14 in the last seven years to be elected European Player of the Year but […]

Heineken can restore love of rugby lost by Lions

12 December 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Ronan O’Gara usually stands out in any company, all the more so now in an age when […]

Bristol Bears chief executive Mark Tainton

Bristol say No to plea by Scarlets to postpone

5 December 2021 2 comments

By PETER JACKSON BRISTOL Bears have turned down a request from the Covid-marooned Scarlets to postpone next Saturday’s Champions’ Cup tie at Ashton Gate. It […]

Super-fit Price still on the run, even at 70

5 December 2021 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Graham Price turned 70 the other week whereupon he treated himself to a steep run for two-and-ahalf […]

Will URC’s missing Boks ever return?

5 December 2021 2 comments

PETER JACKSON THE fanfare proclaiming assorted Springbok superstars as an integral part of the United Rugby Championship has yet to live up to its promise. […]

No problem in Cardiff? Read these tweets, WRU

28 November 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The Welsh Rugby Union maintained a stony silence all week in the face of further damning evidence […]

Tell us why you’re leaving, Amanda

28 November 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Going: Amanda Blanc AS chief executive of the insurance giant Aviva, Amanda Blanc could be described as the highest profile business woman in […]

Thinking prop Ray believed persistence trumped all

28 November 2021 0 comments

Peter Jackson remembers the life of Ireland’s great British Lion Ray McLoughlin When they laid Ray McLoughlin to rest last Wednesday, the Lions he left […]

Baby faced, but Pearce is a ref to be reckoned with

21 November 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Saturday, April 11, 2015 at The Stoop and Harlequins are playing Gloucester in front of a full-house […]

‘I was watching Wales game when drunk fell on us from two rows up’

21 November 2021 2 comments

PETER JACKSON ANOTHER victim of drunken behaviour at the Principality Stadium has asked the Welsh Rugby Union for his money back over a ‘horrendous’ incident […]

Drunken yobs end Craig’s 50-year Wales love affair

14 November 2021 2 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Craig James has been watching Wales since his father took him at the age of nine for […]

Teen star Prydie is looking for a new club

7 November 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Youngest ever: Tom Prydie playing for Wales v Italy in 2010 PICTURE: Getty Images Tom Prydie landed […]

Hodgkinson must have a wry smile

7 November 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON ENGLAND players stand to collect circa £70,000-a-man from the RFU should they complete an autumn hat-trick by beating Australia and South Africa. And […]

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