All posts tagged "Peter Jackson"
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/ 10 years ago‘One more blow and George North has to quit’
One of world rugby‘s leading medical figures is advising George North to retire should he suffer another head injury. The Welsh...
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/ 10 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: Accept it, Gatland’s Law is now a nonsense
Like Mo Farah’s front doorbell when the drug testers came calling, Warren Gatland‘s eponymous law has much to answer for. As...
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/ 10 years agoPeter Jackson: When Bill Samuel kept Gareth Edwards from lure of football
The making of Gareth Edwards as a rugby superstar, humble human being and now knight of the realm, would probably never...
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/ 10 years agoWales MUST hold onto Alun Wyn Jones warn Ospreys
Wales urged to secure the longer-term future of their ‘most valuable asset’
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/ 10 years agoInside this week’s edition of TRP
Another busy week in the world of rugby, another brilliant issue of The Rugby Paper! TRP will have all the action and...
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/ 10 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: Signing up Kiwis and Boks mocks the rules
Exactly five years ago this coming Wednesday, in a football stadium where a local boy called Messi used to play, New...
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/ 10 years agoPeter Jackson: Bull-dozing Ross Moriarty may be Wales’ missing link
When Wales beat Australia in the World Cup for the first and only time, amid the geothermal geysers of Rotorua, their...
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/ 10 years agoSix Nations TV deal set to rocket past £50m a season
The next Six Nations television deal is expected to increase by 25 per cent.
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: Such a pity Gavin Henson never graced a World Cup
Gavin Henson’s place among the footnotes of rugby history can now be found hidden away beneath a sub-section reserved for the...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: If ‘Gatland’s Law’ is not upheld there’s no point in being loyal to Wales
Warren Gatland‘s eponymous law has been further exposed by his refusal to rule Jamie Roberts out when the good doctor lines...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: Poachers at work on both sides of Severn
One day long ago during a break from curing toothache at his dental practice in Newbridge, Derek Morgan found himself asked...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Regions feel the love at last from Team Wales
Six months after his installation as chairman, Gareth Davies has succeeded in putting the Union back into Welsh rugby. His is...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: Leigh Halfpenny’s £5 note has been repaid with interest
Leigh Halfpenny won his first goalkicking prize from the most acute of angles at the age of ten – a £5...
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/ 11 years agoElton Flatley: Matt Giteau’s recall damages Wales’ chances
Matt Giteau’s Australian reinstatement will put Wales in greater World Cup danger than England, according to the Wallaby who almost changed...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Can’t blame Callum Sheedy for keeping his options open
Callum Sheedy is already eligible to play international rugby for Wales and Ireland. Soon the teenaged fly-half will be further spoilt...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: Lyn Jones is happy to foster home-grown Dragons
Lyn Jones and his home-grown Dragons start the most challenging week of their lives today. By the end of it, nobody...
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/ 11 years agoWales say No to Test against Australia in autumn
Wales have turned down an approach from Australia to play the Wallabies in Cardiff immediately after the World Cup. The Aussies...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: Justice has arrived late for victim Rhys Patchell
Rhys Patchell would have been appearing in his first European quarter-final yesterday had he not been bludgeoned out of it. The...
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/ 11 years agoExtra Test with Ireland on agenda for England
Old rivals to meat at HQ four times next season.
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: Rory Watts-Jones was too brave for his own good
There was a time when Rory Watts-Jones rubbed shoulders with the brightest and best of his generation on an equal footing....
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s comment on France: This will drive Dr Mias back onto the bottle
In reaffirming their status as serious title contenders, Wales plunged France into such a state of despair that their most revered...
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/ 11 years agoEXCLUSIVE: Welsh clubs gang up to oust chief executive Roger Lewis
By PETER JASCKON The Welsh Rugby Union had been urged to ‘get rid’ of chief executive Roger Lewis before last Tuesday’s...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: Mervyn Davies’s lament at putting Phil Bennett on the spot
Long before he passed away, Mervyn Davies confessed that his errant captaincy had cost Wales a third Grand Slam in four...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Lions legend Graham Price takes a prop shot at Adam Jones axe
As the only tighthead on the planet to have propped the Lions through 12 consecutive Test matches, Graham Price knows a...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s verdict: Lights go out for Warren Gatland’s galacticos
England had waited so long in the tunnel for any sign of the opposition that Chris Robshaw asked the referee: “How...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Silence greeted the hero of Cardiff
When they come to write the colourful history of Anglo-Welsh rivalry, one of England‘s forgotten full-backs will justify a chapter all...
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/ 11 years ago£1m bonus spur for Wales and England
Wales and England will be playing for a £1m Grand Slam bonus when the Six Nations kicks off in Cardiff on...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Pied Piper of Wasps leads them to new era
Dai Young and his ailing Wasps were bumping along on skid row three years ago, losing around £50,000-a-week and almost disappearing...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Warren Gatland’s Law only applies to James Hook
The writing has been on the wall for so long now that James Hook could be forgiven for ignoring it and...
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/ 11 years agoDai Young said ‘no’ to national job to stay at Wasps
DoR turned down an international coaching offer before re-signing with Wasps to run their Coventry revolution.
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Ryan Bevington still has time to climb out of the wreckage
The old year took an unusually savage toll of the toughest, meanest, ugliest breed in the game, the prop. From the...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Warren, it’s time to take leaf out of Irish book
Warren Gatland takes his first Southern Hemisphere scalp for six years and immediately talks about Wales winning the World Cup. Across...
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/ 11 years agoEXLUSIVE: Aviva clubs close in on deals for Welsh stars
English clubs are lining up “massive” bids to land four Welsh stars in time for next season.
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Extra Test match is crippling Welsh Regions
The Welsh Rugby Union have stuffed the golden goose over the last four weeks as never before, taking some £15m in...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Richie McCaw’s genius is avoiding the pitfalls
The historical life span of an international rugby captain averages out at six matches, a fact which makes Richie McCaw’s unique...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: All Blacks aftermath put Delme Thomas in dark place
More than 40 years have come and gone since the day the pubs ran dry in Llanelli and Delme Thomas still...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s verdict on Wales: Wales fluff Buster Douglas moment
Warren Gatland will have left the Millennium Stadium last night with some awkward questions ringing in his ears over Wales‘ inability...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Wallabies would be nowhere without Ray
There was a time when Wales hammered Australia 24-0, when the terse verdict reflected the expectation of an underwhelmed public: So...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s verdict: Frustrating, but so nearly far worse!
When it came to inflicting recent damage on Wales, nobody had done so to more devastating effect than Akapusi Qera and...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Big Stu would have loved the story of how umpire Edward tamed McEnroe
They came in their hundreds to send Stuart Gallacher off on his final journey, among them a retired dentist who once...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s verdict: Time is running out for Wales to see the light
At the height of his power as the 20th century’s multiple inventor, Thomas Edison once revealed the motivational force behind his...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: How WRU left Adam Jones in limbo…. and then out in the cold
As recently as six months ago, Wales were proposing to sign their ‘Hair Bear’ on a Union contract at circa £300,000-a-year....
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Autumn Internationals
/ 11 years agoWales put five more on national contracts
Two Scarlets, two Ospreys and one Dragon on Gatland's wishlist.
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Dan Lydiate saga shows Warren Gatland has more to worry about than his squad’s fitness
The smoke signals coming out of Paris have different meaning for different people but one underlying fact cannot be disputed. Racing...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Rhys Thomas finds a new life pumping through him
After an operation lasting 13 hours, Rhys Thomas is adjusting to a new lease of life provided by the implant of...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Home-bred Ospreys soar with the eagles
At the height of summer, their players were left to wonder whether they still had jobs to go back to and,...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Thanks so much Roy, whoever you are!
Roy Giddings had been on the WRU Board for so long that when he started Margaret Thatcher had just become the...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Richard Webster – Man of Iron with knobbled knees
After nine operations, Richard Webster’s knees are so shot to bits that he cannot run five metres without seizing up. The...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Imports are making a mockery of IRB rule
During his time in charge of Wales, Graham Henry took what could be politely described as a cavalier attitude to capping...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: So sad that Sinbad’s voyage never sailed fair despite its wonderful beginning
On paper it looked like the worst mismatch of all, Jonah Lomu against James Simpson-Daniel. A global superstar of gigantic proportion...
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