All posts tagged "Peter Jackson"
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson comment: Sorry, Dr Roberts, but the only diagnosis can be that it’s been gruesome
Jamie Roberts described the Springbok experience pre-match in one word: gruesome, as in the context of wounded Lions queuing up for...
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson column: England’s debacle? It’s all fault of Boris Johnson!
Boris Johnson is addressing the great and the good on the occasion of the World Cup draw at the Tate Modern...
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson column: Brynmor’s lad is still selling to dummies
The man in Seat 54, Row U of the middle tier of the East Stand looked down on a familiar figure...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson column: Don’t be a man, stay down says Jonathan Thomas
Jonathan Thomas began wondering whether something might be wrong when he spoke to the Worcester Warriors‘ squad one day last October. ...
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/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s verdict: Who needs Leigh Halfpenny when you’ve got Dan Biggar?
They paid £20,000,000 to be ringside at Twickenham last night, a suitably monstrous sum for a neighbourly battle billed as the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: Let’s hope Warren Gatland won’t take a kicking
Wales went into their semi-final at the last World Cup fully loaded with goalkickers – a veritable arsenal of weaponry providing...
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/ 11 years agoHallam Amos has pedigree to be the new Shane Williams says Lyn Jones
Wales will decide this week whether to give their youngest wing the earliest chance to be ‘the surprise package’ of the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: Hair Bear Adam Jones has to take his share of the blame
Michael Clarke retired from the Test arena on a point of honour. Adam Jones did so in a fit of pique. ...
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson: Mauro Bergamasco debut ruined by England’s lucky break
Mauro Bergamasco and the World Cup go back a long way, to a chilly Sunday in Yorkshire during the last century...
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: Ironman’s meteoric rise stands test of time
The eighth World Cup will generate more money than the previous seven. It may even produce a Six Nations winner but...
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: Mike Phillips axe gives Gareth Davies a glimpse of redemption
Gareth Davies changed the course of history in Rome on Super Saturday, albeit not in the way he would have wanted...
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/ 11 years agoOutsiders Fiji will take a big scalp warns Bob Dwyer
1991 winning coach adamant Fiji will be England or Wales at World Cup.
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/ 11 years agoOrder your Rugby World Cup guide
The World Cup is the greatest rugby show on earth and it’s being staged right here in the UK from September...
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: TV drops Gareth Edwards… unlike Lions and Wales
Wales never went anywhere without him and neither did the Lions. Just as the unbeatable Joe Calzaghe never lost a world...
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: Winning is same in any language for Michael Cheika
Michael Cheika speaks French, Italian and Arabic. He is also known to be fluent in coarse Anglo-Saxon and looks forward to...
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/ 11 years agoLeigh Halfpenny told: Play for Toulon or face axe
European Champions threatening to sack full-bakc over the club-or-country clash looming at the end of the new season.
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: Over-load on players so wrong says Larder
George Ford played 32 matches for club and country last season, more than any of his international contemporaries anywhere in Europe....
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Peter Jackson
/ 11 years agoPeter Jackson’s column: Vernon Pugh was right, we’re playing too many Tests
Fifty years ago, Jack Kyle held the record as the world’s most-capped player with 46 matches for Ireland. It had taken...
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/ 11 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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Peter Jackson
/ 11 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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Peter Jackson
/ 11 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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/ 11 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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/ 11 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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Peter Jackson
/ 11 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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Peter Jackson
/ 11 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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/ 11 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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Peter Jackson
/ 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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Peter Jackson
/ 12 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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Peter Jackson
/ 12 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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/ 12 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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Peter Jackson
/ 12 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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Peter Jackson
/ 12 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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/ 12 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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/ 12 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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/ 12 years agoExtra Test with Ireland on agenda for England
Old rivals to meat at HQ four times next season.
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 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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Peter Jackson
/ 12 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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/ 12 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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Peter Jackson
/ 12 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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/ 12 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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Peter Jackson
/ 12 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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/ 12 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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/ 12 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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/ 12 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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Peter Jackson
/ 12 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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/ 12 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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Peter Jackson
/ 12 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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Peter Jackson
/ 12 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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