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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoSo where have all the Welsh coaches gone?
PETER JACKSON By the time Warren Gatland’s second coming runs its contractual course, Wales will have gone 20 whole years without...
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Features
/ 3 years agoOn a wing but without a prayer
Peter Jackson finds little to cheer for the speed merchants when it comes to checking the stats from the Autumn Series...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoNo change as Pivac is next in the firing line
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW At home on Lake Wanaka half a world away from his former employers,...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoClassy All Blacks show how it should be done
PETER JACKSON Two days before they began their European tour by taking Wales to the cleaners, eight All Blacks turned up...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoRoberts goes in hard, like he always did
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Some ex-internationals looking to reinvent themselves as pundits struggle because they fail to...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoWill’s way: This is how you do it, Jase
PETER JACKSON Scoring machine: Will Stuart goes over against New Zealand PICTURE: Getty Images As befitting a man in his position,...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoGone for a Burton! Rugby is struggling for a future
PETER JACKSON Pontrhydyfen is a village in the Afan Valley where a local boy failed to realise his rugby dream and...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 3 years agoAfter that shambles, AWJ must surely start
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Hand up for selection: Alun Wyn Jones PICTURE: Getty Images By making an...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoJohn Ryan, the Wales coach who lost his stars to rugby league
John Ryan could have been forgiven had he likened coaching the Wales rugby team of the late Eighties to steering Titanic...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoIt’s all a California dream for Nonu, 40
PETER JACKSON Had its release been better timed, a news item from Southern California would have avoided burial beneath the avalanche...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 3 years agoTime to stop hectoring ref
PETER JACKSON World Rugby, having acted swiftly to punish Rassie Erasmus for his latest video refereeing rant, the governing body must...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoHow Kevin kept 1991 pioneers on right track
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW KEVIN O’Brien grew up within walking distance of Cardiff docks, round the corner...
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/ 3 years agoSinfield shows he’s in a class of his own
PETER JACKSON THERE are an elite group of impressive men involved in English rugby and then there is Kevin Sinfield, the...
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/ 3 years agoNo surprise to see more trouble
PETER JACKSON ANOTHER match at the world’s biggest pub and another outbreak of crowd trouble, this one over a fight between...
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/ 3 years agoIrish referee Brace kept Itoje in line
PETER JACKSON MARO Itoje had a lot to say for himself during England’s non-performance against Argentina last Sunday. His verbosity extended...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoWhen Ray set records back in the glory days
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Ray Glastonbury spent most of his sporting life unaware that he belonged to...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoEngland’s awkward encounter
PETER JACKSON NO Greek team can have borne quite as many gifts to a World Cup as their Rugby League lads...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoOne final chance for AWJ to take out ABs
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Alun Wyn Jones will take his last scheduled crack at the All Blacks...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoCasualty list which just keeps growing and growing
PETER JACKSON The autumn series kicks with almost 40 missing in action, the majority of whom have been declared unfit for...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoA player’s parents should be the limit
PETER JACKSON Jack Dempsey’s switch of allegiance from Australia to Scotland opens the way for a whole host of international players...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoA day in history which will never be repeated
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW A dwindling band of noble old-age pensioners will be reunited next week for...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoWasps play their part and then disappear
PETER JACKSON THE numbers - 70, 71, 76, 80, 85 - could be misconstrued as a rising tide of support for...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoThe man who kept Wasps on the road
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Malcolm Sinclair holds the distinction of being Wasps’ first full-time professional, an appointment...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoCardiff’s faithful still being kept in the dark
PETER JACKSON YET another Chancellor of the Exchequer has been and gone and still not a peep from Cardiff Rugby Club...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoStars of the Seventies kept us all informed
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Even now, five decades after their time ran out, the most celebrated European...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoWhy are we still waiting for verdicts?
PETER JACKSON When the RFU launched an inquiry into the violent nature of their Five Nations match in Cardiff in 1989,...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoThompson’s terrible tale
PETER JACKSON In the occasionally harrowing BBC2 documentary, Head On: Rugby, Dementia and Me, Steve Thompson spoke with brutal candour, never...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoHow losing a finger didn’t stop Bennett
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW At the last count, Alexander Zverev’s tennis earnings had topped $32 million, enough...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoRaynal is my referee of the year
By Peter Jackson Mathieu Raynal ought by now to have turned the Referee of the Year award into a foregone conclusion....
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoThe Butler did it! Day Eddie was in the dock
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW AT the crack of dawn on Thursday, September 6, 2001, the highest-powered disciplinary...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoRoom, finally, for Billy
PETER JACKSON At the first post-Covid dinner staged by the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame in Cardiff the other night, Wales...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoTime for the game to credit Littlejohn
PETER JACKSON MAYBE one day those responsible for deeming who is worthy of World Rugby’s Hall of Fame and who is...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoEight brothers who cared for one game
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The eight sons of Arthur Williams from Taff’s Well shall forever hold a...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoWhy Raynal was right to call out Aussie time wasting
PETER JACKSON MATHIEU Raynal has been called many names over the Bledisloe Cup denouement in Melbourne on Thursday night, most of...
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/ 3 years agoHow Chris defied the medics to play again
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Stanislau Czekaj survived the Second World War in Poland against brutal odds, from...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoI’m glad to tell you all that Tony is alive and well
PETER JACKSON MARK Twain was in London on a speaking tour in 1897, fending off rumours of a serious illness, when...
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Club Rugby
/ 3 years agoRichmond back from voyage of discovery
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW A famous old club sets sail from London this week on a south-westerly...
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Columnists
/ 3 years agoElvis still has a few more hits left in him
By Peter Jackson Old rock ‘n’ rollers dusting down their blue suede shoes for the new season will rejoice at the...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoFrance set to rock with the best league in the world
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW French flair: La Rochelle may be champions of Europe but they finished fifth...
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/ 4 years agoRemembering DK, the speedster who made a name for himself
PETER JACKSON KEN Jones died last Wednesday, barely a fortnight after his 82nd birthday and some 60 years after becoming the...
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Columnists
/ 4 years agoFoley’s return smacks of Aussie desperation
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Ever since Australia made him carry the can for their last World Cup,...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoSo sad to see Grav’s pride and joy is now a ghost club
Ray Gravell adored his “Rocky Mountain home in the west”, Mynyddygarreg in Carmarthenshire where he helped friends and neighbours create a...
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Columnists
/ 4 years agoIkey fights to save life of his only daughter
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW In his line of duty for Wales and the Lions, Ian ‘Ikey’ Stephens...
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/ 4 years agoSullivan, the soccer player …
PETER JACKSON THIS column’s plaintive cry for the city 0 Cardiff to recognise Jim Sullivan has prompted admirers to delve into...
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/ 4 years agoOne day,two defeats for All Blacks
PETER JACKSON THAT New Zealand once lost six international matches in a row is a fact but there is more to...
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Columnists
/ 4 years agoHare’s world record keeps on growing
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Dusty Hare retired more than 30 years ago and yet his world points...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoThe silent treatment for Hansen
PETER JACKSON The mucky stuff really hit fans all over New Zealand last week when Sir Steve Hansen said what he...
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Club Rugby
/ 4 years agoFans left at the bottom of the pile when it comes to kick-off times
PETER JACKSON A summer of sorrow over Llanelli draws towards a close, leaving the Scarlets to prepare for their 150th anniversary...
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Columnists
/ 4 years agoDusty and Sully: Pair who lit up the game
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW They came into the world at different places in different times, two boys...
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/ 4 years agoRobertson makes sure message gets across
PETER JACKSON SCOTT Robertson has never needed a publicity agent to trumpet his serial success on behalf of the Crusaders and...
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