Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson’s verdict on Wales: It screamed out for a gamble on James Hook

In the privacy of the team room just before the Six Nations began, Warren Gatland urged Wales to play with ‘a...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: The ancient battleground welcomes Warren Gatland again

So Warren Gatland has felt it necessary to make a pre-emptive strike aimed at reducing the hostility level towards him in...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson’s verdict on Wales: So close as Wales dodge a Tyson KO

For a few startling minutes towards the end, Wales ran the risk of falling victim to the biggest upset in Six...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Dr Ron still at the head of Grand Slam pack

It has been said of Dr Ronald Cove-Smith that he never turned up on a Saturday afternoon without his little black...

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Featured

/ 12 years ago

Deadline looms for Anglo-Welsh league plan

England’s elite clubs and the four Welsh regions have signed contracts for a 16-team Aviva Premiership from next season and will...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Rookie 10s can shape outcome of Six Nations

The Six Nations cast for 2014 includes seven fly-halves who have yet to play in the tournament and seven more who...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Italy arrive in Wales on a wing and a blessing

Italy come to Cardiff for the opening match in the Six Nations next month armed with something different, a Papal blessing....

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Let’s spare a thought for Toggie and Tanky

Freddy ‘Tanky’ Turner captained Scotland one hundred years ago, a Liverpudlian by birth who worked in the family printing business and...

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Featured

/ 12 years ago

British and Irish option is Heineken alternative

A fresh attempt is being made to salvage a substitute tournament from the wreckage of Europe – a revised British and...

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Featured

/ 12 years ago

WRU ‘will move their top stars to England’

The Welsh Rugby Union is proposing to sign six players and loan them to English clubs as a consequence of the...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Cliff was out of this world, but Barry was untouchable!

New Year gongs will be all the rage all too soon, a good enough excuse to enter the festive spirit and...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: All Blacks chase the dollar in Big Apple

The All Blacks have announced their intention to cash in on the American market with a match in New York next...

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Featured

/ 12 years ago

Breakaway or die, Welsh regions are warned

The man who created the Welsh regions is urging them to break away and join the English Premiership or face destruction.

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Shameful memories for Wales in South Africa

As the top man in the world game, Bernard Lapasset paid due homage to Nelson Mandela on behalf of “the rugby...

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Champions Cup

/ 12 years ago

I could play on for one more year, says Jonny Wilkinson

Jonny Wilkinson came off the bench on Saturday to score the bonus-point try that helped put champions Toulon firmly in control...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Top dogs in Europe have bark but no bite

When they opened the roof after the Wallabies had done their level best to bring the house down, Wales were left...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Luke Charteris’ uncool hands mean try wait goes on

Luke Charteris threw himself back into the day job in France at the weekend, wondering why there is still no international...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: The joke’s wearing thin for Warren Gatland

This is getting beyond a joke. The more Wales fail to answer needling jibes about their ‘mental barrier’, the more the...

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English Gallagher Premiership

/ 12 years ago

Now Welsh regions can join the Aviva Premiership says Nigel Wray

Saracens chairman Nigel Wray claims that the embattled Welsh regions want to join the English Premiership as a move towards long-term...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Wales will count cost of vanishing 70,000 fans

For the second time in six days, Wales went about their business in Cardiff on Friday night in front of more...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Departure of Jonathan Davies highlights WRU feud

Jonathan Davies will more than double his money at Clermont this season, a move into the £400,000-a-year bracket befitting a player...

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Jeremy Guscott

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson’s verdict: Wales know the precise problem

George North knew he needed something special to reassure the faithful shocked at the sight of Bryan Habana giving their gigantic...

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Featured

/ 12 years ago

WRU given four weeks to keep Sam Warburton and Co. in Wales

The Welsh Rugby Union have been given four weeks to come up with a deal to prevent another quartet of Lions...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Brave rebel Byron Hayward is still blazing his own trail

Of the 1,109 players capped by Wales, only one began by scoring a hat-trick of tries on debut as a second-half...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Wales must speak out over shame of Mike Phillips

According to Alain Afflelou, only his presidential intervention prevented Bayonne giving Mike Phillips the order of the boot 12 months ago. Afflelou...

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Champions Cup

/ 12 years ago

Extra place will tempt the Celts to sign up for Champions Cup

The significant change to the play-off structure has been made in response to the Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Italian Unions refusing...

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Autumn Internationals

/ 12 years ago

‘Mental block’ is stopping Wales

Wales will have to smash a ‘mental blockage’ when they go big-game hunting against the Springboks in Cardiff on Saturday.

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Threadbare Wales are on a wing and a prayer

Wales will go into their annual home bash at the Southern Hemisphere down to the bare bones in specialist wings. They...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Fifty years on, the kick that rocked the world as Newport beat the All Blacks

Dick Uzzell and his old comrades will be given the freedom of Newport next week in belated recognition of something they...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Ireland’s new star is made in Wales

At the end of a week when English football got its knickers in a nationality twist, Ireland’s next scrum-half can be...

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Brendan Gallagher

/ 12 years ago

Brendan Gallagher: Heroic, tragic and downright eccentric, yes rugby has it all

A mate of mine, literary agent David Luxton, has had the brilliant idea of organising the inaugural London Sports Writing Festival...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Regrets? I’ve got a few about Cup admits Ring

Once upon a time long ago, Mark Ring found himself within touching distance of lifting the European Cup in his very...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Pullin much more than a master of the one-liner

John Pullin has long deserved special mention in the folklore of Anglo-Irish rugby, not so much for what he did on...

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Featured

/ 12 years ago

Toulon in ‘illegal’ move for Leigh Halfpenny

European champions Toulon were at the centre of an illegal approach row last Saturday over a cheeky attempt to sign Leigh...

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Champions Cup

/ 12 years ago

Nigel Wray warns the IRB a Euro Cup veto would end in court

Saracens chairman Nigel Wray has warned that any attempt by the International Rugby Board to veto the proposed Rugby Champions Cup...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Ignore all that ghostly talk, Phillips is a fixture

At the end of the Lions tour, Mike Phillips used his newspaper column to suggest that he might soon be calling...

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Champions Cup

/ 12 years ago

Welsh clubs in talks over Heineken breakaway

Two Welsh regions have declared their interest in joining the new Europe under Anglo-French direction from next season. PRL chief executive...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Ah You Irish? Well, that’s complicated, Rodney!

Rodney Ah You arrived in Belfast as a hefty member of the baby All Blacks in 2007 and duly went home...

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Featured

/ 12 years ago

A red wave rolls off the Solent to remember Cliff

Towards the end of an inspirational life, Cliff Morgan found himself confronted one day by the question of mortality and his...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Ten years on, Coombs is overnight sensation!

When it comes to recurring rejection in pursuit of a professional career, Andrew Coombs deserves to be out on his own...

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Featured

/ 12 years ago

Leigh Halfpenny told: Move to France will hurt career

Leigh Halfpenny has been warned about paying ‘a massive price’ for moving to France, even it makes him the highest paid...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Peerless Morgan, a master of all trades

Tony O’Reilly described Cliff Morgan as “the greatest of them all”, an accolade based on the ketchup king’s appreciation of his...

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Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Groundhog Day, and Gav blinks back into the light

During the course of fox-trotting his way into five clubs over 20 months, Gavin Henson has danced to the same old...

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English Gallagher Premiership

/ 12 years ago

Nigel Melville in talks over US-based Premiership games

England‘s Premiership clubs are to hold imminent talks with American power-brokers aimed at ‘opening up’ the trans-Atlantic market. USA Rugby’s top...

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