Peter Jackson - Page 9 of 21 - news, views and opinion - The Rugby Paper

Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Black 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...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Pied 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...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Memory 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...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Biggar 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...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Irish 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...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Let’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...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Sidestep 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...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Columnists
/ 4 years ago

Intrepid 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...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Pearce 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...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

A 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...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Brendan Gallagher
/ 4 years ago

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

Amid the clinking cutlery and a few chinking glasses, The Rugby Paper’s brain’s trust gathered at Jeremy Guscott’s favourite Bath watering...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Sexton and Biggar aim to break tradition

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Johnny Sexton sets out on Saturday aiming to be the first flyhalf to...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Blue means yellow in Wayne’s world

PETER JACKSON WAYNE Barnes, admirably true to form, set a shining example of how referees ought to react when players confront...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Six Nations hits £20m jackpot of prize cash

By PETER JACKSON THE Six Nations will be playing for record sums in prize money of around £20m when the tournament...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Chatty men Sexton and Biggar give refs earache

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The most argumentative of fly-halves to be found in Europe, or anywhere else...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Gloucester have No.9 factory

PETER JACKSON SINCE the turn of the century, three Gloucester scrum-halves have played for England: Willi Heinz, Peter Richards and Andy...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Met Uni duo keep it classy

PETER JACKSON THEY are remembered at Cardiff Metropolitan University as ‘the king of the cream cakes’ and ‘the Cornish pastie kid’:...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Wales lose Faletau and eight more Lions

By PETER JACKSON TAULUPE Faletau will miss the start of the Six Nations, leaving Wales to defend their title minus nine...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Ioan shows little guys can make big impact

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Had Cheslin Kolbe been watching Bristol’s last Premiership match at his pied a...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Name of Ravenhill will always be special

PETER JACKSON FOR those born and bred on the northern side of the Irish border, Ravenhill will forever be synonymous with...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Alfie’s part in Ruddock resignation is revealed

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Ashred of new evidence is shining a light on the most intriguing St...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Liddell’s values honoured by SRU

PETER JACKSON ON A sharp New Year morning at his farm in the Borders, John Jeffrey switched off the engine of...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Taylor warns of booze danger

By PETER JACKSON WALES icon John Taylor has warned the WRU about the dangers of a ‘serious accident’ at the Principality...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Features
/ 4 years ago

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

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Rare sighting: Liam Williams playing for Scarlets yesterday PICTURE: Huw Evans Two years...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Features
/ 4 years ago

This celestial Lions match would be too close to call

PETER JACKSON THE game they play in heaven can rarely have been more competitive than it is at the dawning of...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Features
/ 4 years ago

Big-hearted Rees risked ruin for his doctor pals

PETER JACKSON FEW players could possibly have been more revered over the course of their lives than Brian Rees, from the...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Wales show what goes down must come up

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Ever ready to enter into the season of goodwill, this column welcomes you...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

North to miss start of the Six Nations

By PETER JACKSON In the roar: Joe Marchant celebrates scoring Harlequins’ fourth try against Cardiff PICTURE: Getty Images GEORGE North’s comeback...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Champions or chumps? Cup caters for them all

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW In the Super League for the overhyped, baseball’s World Series has long been...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Time for Amanda to break silence

PETER JACKSON IN THE Forbes’ list of the world’s 100 most powerful women, Amanda Blanc from Treherbert in the Rhondda ranks...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Heineken can restore love of rugby lost by Lions

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Ronan O’Gara usually stands out in any company, all the more so now...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Flats and Donncha liven up the commentaries

PETER JACKSON AT THE halfway stage of another weekend of wall-towall live rugby, complete with inter-round summaries from coaches with uneven...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Silence of WRU over Amanda is baffling

PETER JACKSON FOR the third week in a row, the WRU offered nothing more than a stoney silence over Amanda Blanc’s...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Dupont puts Frenchmen back on top

PETER JACKSON ANTOINE Dupont is the fifth from the Top 14 in the last seven years to be elected European Player...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Champions Cup
/ 4 years ago

Bristol say No to plea by Scarlets to postpone

By PETER JACKSON BRISTOL Bears have turned down a request from the Covid-marooned Scarlets to postpone next Saturday’s Champions’ Cup tie...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

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

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Graham Price turned 70 the other week whereupon he treated himself to a...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Will URC’s missing Boks ever return?

PETER JACKSON THE fanfare proclaiming assorted Springbok superstars as an integral part of the United Rugby Championship has yet to live...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Autumn Internationals
/ 4 years ago

No problem in Cardiff? Read these tweets, WRU

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The Welsh Rugby Union maintained a stony silence all week in the face...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Tell us why you’re leaving, Amanda

PETER JACKSON Going: Amanda Blanc AS chief executive of the insurance giant Aviva, Amanda Blanc could be described as the highest...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Features
/ 4 years ago

Thinking prop Ray believed persistence trumped all

Peter Jackson remembers the life of Ireland‘s great British Lion Ray McLoughlin When they laid Ray McLoughlin to rest last Wednesday,...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

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

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Saturday, April 11, 2015 at The Stoop and Harlequins are playing Gloucester in...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

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

PETER JACKSON ANOTHER victim of drunken behaviour at the Principality Stadium has asked the Welsh Rugby Union for his money back...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

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

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Craig James has been watching Wales since his father took him at the...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Teen star Prydie is looking for a new club

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Youngest ever: Tom Prydie playing for Wales v Italy in 2010 PICTURE: Getty...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Hodgkinson must have a wry smile

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...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Test match? More a cash match, Ian!

PETER JACKSON THE latest in the neverending series of mismatches between Wales and New Zealand ought to have left certain All...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Don’t ignore Hayman

PETER JACKSON CARL Hayman’s distressing diagnosis of early-onset dementia, as revealed by New Zealand journalist Dylan Cleaver in his gripping interview...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

United nations of Scotland

PETER JACKSON ALL BAR one of Scotland’s ten tries against Tonga came courtesy of players born far from Flodden Field –...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Battered Sandy takes his secret to the grave

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Every now and then, whenever the x-certificate stuff reared its ugly head during...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 4 years ago

Nonu’s coming to America, better tell San Diego!

PETER JACKSON MA’A NONU’S tendency to make Vasco da Gama look a trifle seasick by comparison still knows no bounds. As...

By The Rugby Paper Team

More Posts

Page 9 of 21« First ‹ Previous 5 6 7 8910 11 12 13 Next ›Last »

Follow us

Read our latest news on any of these social networks!

Tackle the News

- Sign Up for our weekly Rugby Newsletter

Your subscription could not be saved. Please try again.

Your subscription has been successful.

Brendan Gallagher
Ampleforth got Dallaglio tuned up for greatness
Guest Blogs
How much does a rugby player earn?
Guest Blogs
Legends of the Oval Ball: Top 21st Century Rugby Icons
Features
OSCAR WILSON