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/ 4 years agoWhy Wales should let Reffell stay at Leicester
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW As a Welshman thriving in the English Premiership, Tommy Reffell knows that a...
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/ 4 years agoGrace looking to make most of return journey
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW One hundred summers ago, Johnny Ring left Port Talbot on a journey of...
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/ 4 years agoKen Kennedy, a Lion whose impact on top sport lasted a lifetime
Peter Jackson The Lions have lost another of their Invincibles in former Ireland hooker Ken Kennedy. His sudden death at the...
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/ 4 years agoRed cards are now haunting All Blacks
Peter Jackson In their first 112 years of Test rugby, the All Blacks got by without any more than three players...
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/ 4 years agoThe one that got away for Roberts
Peter Jackson If Jamie Roberts could only be granted the wish of playing one match over again, he would name the...
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/ 4 years agoWhat price for a jersey famous the world over?
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW One of the game’s most treasured jerseys has reappeared alongside its revered owner...
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/ 4 years agoEvergreen Parisse set to join the 500 club
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Amassing 500 matches among the European elite requires surviving an endurance test of...
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/ 4 years agoAu Revoir, Arrivederci, Hywl Fawr, Goodbye…
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW At close of business on Friday, 40 Test players boasting a collective stack...
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/ 4 years agoWelsh fan power has shifted to round ball
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Shortly after noon on Monday, April 14, 1969, a bus joined the queue...
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/ 4 years agoKayaks revel in rewriting history
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Good value? Cheslin Kolbe has scored only four tries this season PICTURE: Getty...
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/ 4 years agoHignell one of the last sporting all-rounders
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Master of art: Alastair Hignell in oval-ball action for England The England-New Zealand...
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/ 4 years agoHow RWC cooked up pig’s ear of a draw
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Towards the end of the World Cup draw, a celebrated chef stepped forward...
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/ 4 years agoLa Rochelle present a tougher test
PETER JACKSON LEO Cullen before last week’s semi-final against Toulouse in Dublin: “It doesn’t get any tougher.’’ Considering that the ex-champions...
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/ 4 years agoFly-half Billy left the kicks to others
PETER JACKSON BILLY Griffiths rolled off the assembly line at the Welsh fly-half factory in the mid-1950s whereupon he set about...
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/ 4 years agoBeer test put Glyn on his way to Widnes
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The last formality of Glyn Shaw’s transfer from Neath to Widnes took place...
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/ 4 years agoDeclining European crowds a cause for concern
PETER JACKSON LA Defense Arena, Racing’s indoor home some six miles west of downtown Paris, offers 30,261 seats for rugby matches....
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/ 4 years agoMerging of giants is the only option to lift Welsh
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW When the organisers finalise their 24 qualifiers for next season’s Champions Cup, they...
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/ 4 years agoWily Myler has many more miles still left on the clock
PETER JACKSON Longevity: Myler STEPHEN Myler will complete 20 years as a goalkicking stand-off next season, adding to a points total...
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/ 4 years agoLeicester lesson has served Leo well
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Leo Cullen left Dublin for Leicester during the summer of 2005 on a...
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/ 4 years agoOnly Evans to coach Wales was a Wallaby
PETER JACKSON AT the last count, as conducted by people who know about these things, there were almost 75,000 Evanses living...
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/ 4 years agoPivac must make bold calls to stop Welsh slide
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Since taking charge of Wales after the last World Cup, Wayne Pivac has...
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/ 4 years agoBelittling dangers of concussion is the Stone Age view
PETER JACKSON ANYONE still daft enough to belittle the dangers of concussion and parrot the Stone Age view that the game’s...
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/ 4 years agoJimmy’s on course for illustrious 4,000 club
PETER JACKSON ON a sporting stage where the landscape changes like a kaleidoscope, one constant can be found in the enduring...
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/ 4 years agoBiden keen to spread the faith
PETER JACKSON JOE Biden’s support of America’s bid to host the 2031 World Cup shows that the President’s interest in the...
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/ 4 years agoSorry saga of failures that haunt Arms Park
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Rout: Liam Williams celebrates after he scores for Scarlets against Cardiff last weekend...
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/ 4 years agoWRU still think they were right over Big Al
PETER JACKSON THE Welsh Rugby Union hierarchy finally got around the other day to addressing the home defeat to Italy but...
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/ 4 years agoWhy so lenient with Latu?
PETER JACKSON SILALOTU Latu, the Australian hooker who plays for Stade Francais when not in a state of suspension, will remain...
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/ 4 years agoWizard Kel put blind faith in his Saints life
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Kel Coslett got home late one summer’s night from the afternoon shift at...
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/ 4 years agoQuiet man Tom was fearless
PETER JACKSON OF all the tributes pouring forth from the great and the good over the death of Tom Smith, Jim...
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/ 4 years agoQuins out to topple the French kingmaker
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW As befitting a billionaire at least four times over, Mohed Altrad is...
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/ 4 years agoNorth still waiting on sidelines
PETER JACKSON GEORGE North reaches another milestone this month irrespective of his fitness, one which marks the remorseless march of time....
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/ 4 years agoRushing Alun Wyn back hard to justify
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW During a BBC interview last week, Alun Wyn Jones waxed lyrical about the...
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/ 4 years agoAshes cameo put Wales cap Rees in a class of his own
PETER JACKSON ALAN Rees won his Wales cap during the frozen winter of 1962-63. By then the Maesteg fly-half had been...
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/ 4 years agoChosen 30 to make the final hurdle
PETER JACKSON GIVEN the Six Nations’ capacity for wreaking havoc on a Grand National scale, it is all too easy to...
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/ 4 years agoInga taught Edwards to box clever
PETER JACKSON VA’AIGA Tuigamala, the cross-code superstar, lay in state at Waitakere Stadium in suburban Auckland the day before his funeral...
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/ 4 years agoHard road, but Biggar got there in the end
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Throughout his long Ireland career, the peerless Jackie Kyle missed a mere four...
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/ 4 years agoExeter’s gain is a big loss for Wales
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW With a surname like his, Tom O’Flaherty sounds as though he ought to...
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/ 4 years agoCups galore but there’s room for one more
PETER JACKSON FOR decade after decade, the old fogies responsible for running the world’s oldest annual international sporting event steadfastly refused...
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/ 4 years agoHow could Francis be deemed fit to return?
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Professor John Fairclough is staring at a video of the 20th minute collision...
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/ 4 years agoIn adversity, Italy earn legion of admirers
PETER JACKSON EVER since the Five became Six, no captain had found himself in an emergency as grim as the one...
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/ 4 years agoBlack wasn’t always on sunny side in Australia
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW A veritable torrent of tributes has been flowing since Steve Black’s sudden death...
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/ 4 years agoPied Piper Inga was worth his weight
PETER JACKSON AN icy wind blew in off the Tyne the day Sir John Hall interrupted a Spanish holiday to preside...
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/ 4 years agoMemory of Gibbs’ try never fades for Dafydd
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Storm Dudley howled along the Porthcawl seafront as if defying a middle-aged Lion...
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/ 4 years agoBiggar looks like he’s enjoying himself
PETER JACKSON DAN Biggar, duly lauded for the dropgoal which did for Scotland last week, is to be congratulated for something...
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/ 4 years agoIrish imports pay their way better than Welsh
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Ireland showing Wales the way goes beyond what happened in the Six Nations...
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/ 4 years agoLet’s tip a top hat to Varsity showman
PETER JACKSON EXACTLY 150 years ago last Thursday, Oxford beat Cambridge in the inaugural Varsity match under the captaincy of a...
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/ 4 years agoSidestep on booze is as weak as the new beer
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The Welsh Rugby Union’s half-hearted attempt to rectify their stadium’s portrayal as the...
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/ 4 years agoIntrepid Robin was reliant for telling truth
PETER JACKSON NOBODY understood the old tribalism of Welsh club rugby better than Robin Davey. As chief rugby correspondent of the...
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/ 4 years agoPearce advice falls on deaf ears
PETER JACKSON A CURIOUS exchange took place outside the Ulster dressing room last Saturday night, one which highlighted the professional game’s...
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/ 4 years agoA crocks XV to take on the best
PETER JACKSON SO MANY established internationals will be missing from the Six Nations starting grid that it’s easily possible to pick...
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