All posts tagged "Peter Jackson"
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/ 13 years agoLeigh Halfpenny is a £1m target for the French clubs
Leigh Halfpenny’s Welsh future is to be thrashed out in London this week as three French clubs prepare to make him...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: The first time ten Welsh stars won it for the Lions
Lewis Jones was playing cricket in Plymouth one Saturday afternoon long ago when he took the first step towards joining the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Don’t be fooled, the Lions are no angels
Every once in a while, the game is brought into more disrepute by the judiciary than by those dragged before them...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years agoOlly Morgan gives his career one more shot
Olly Morgan is making a final attempt to save his career and avoid joining a long list of international players forced...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Watch out England, Wales find new Cullen
Sean Fitzpatrick caught a glimpse of the slight figure slicing through the muscle-bound Springboks and a famous name sprang to mind:...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Richard Hibbard, from dog-house to life with the big cats
Richard Hibbard came home from Australia this time last year fearing the worst, that he would never play for Wales again....
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/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Why it may pay to keep faith with Vunipolas
Before she takes morning service at Avenue Methodist Church in High Wycombe today (last Sunday), the Reverend Singa Vunipola will say...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Will next Warburton stand up now please!
Every Lions captain has to begin somewhere as an international player but only one began in the middle of nowhere. Four...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Leigh’s the guardian ‘angel’ for home club
Gorseinon RFC have done more than their bit for the international game over the last half century – from Onllwyn Brace...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Forgotten Byrne can join select Welsh club
A new name ought to be added to Europe’s painfully small Welsh roll of honour next weekend, a player long declared...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Wales have been down and laid out Down Under
The Welsh usually run into trouble in Australia, big trouble. As a sport, trying to tie the Wallaby down in his...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 13 years ago“I’m used to being snubbed,” says James Hook
James Hook has made a frank admission about his international future after being excluded by the Lions and Wales on successive...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Black time for Blues underlines Euro row
Cardiff Blues have played 30 matches in all competitions this season and lost 20 of them – two defeats in every...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: All Blacks rest cure will cost WRU £4m
The All Blacks have torn a gaping hole in Wales‘ autumn schedule, one damaging enough to run into seven figures. Instead...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: You’re lucky George, they said Lewis sold his soul
Lewis Jones remembers what it was like when he left Llanelli, how all hell broke loose over his transfer to Leeds...
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/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Give me just a little more time, begs Olly
Olly Kohn has no intention of ending up as cannon-fodder for any bright sparks on Brain of Britain or University Challenge...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Drumrolls, but the big act has yet to appear
The Welsh Rugby Union considered their announcement important enough to carry a ‘strict embargo’ until one minute past midnight on the...
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Nick Cain
/ 13 years agoNick Cain picks his 2013 Lions tour party with some surprising ins and outs
No Brian O’Driscoll. No Chris Robshaw. Neither men make my 2013 Lions tour party for the straightforward reason that others are...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Hold it all! England have won the title…
When the Six Nations discuss the ‘on-going’ issue of bonus points, they would be well advised to examine the distorted impact...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years agoGeorge North is urged to get Test clearance
Wales have asked George North to ensure he protects his international future before completing his proposed £250,000 transfer to Northampton. WRU...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years agoTop English clubs would ‘welcome’ Welsh tie-up
A senior Welsh official last night claimed that some English clubs would welcome reviving Anglo-Welsh competition – and even the idea...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Welsh will grab Lions share for Australia
After smashing the team that smashed the All Blacks, Wales will take the Lions’ share when the Test series begins against...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Trust me, Cardiff jinx waits for Lancaster!
At a dinner in London some years ago, the English defined their rugby relationship with the Welsh as one based on...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: It’s whisky galore if Telfer tribe triumph
When Scotland last won three matches on the bounce in the same Championship, they showed their gratitude to Wales by sending...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson talks to Maesteg coach Richard Webster about the startling decline of Welsh club rugby
There was a time when the Welsh club game was the envy of the rugby world, when popular legend had it...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Tragic Nick helps pal Huw keep injury in perspective
Sometime on Wednesday morning Huw Bennett will bow his head and remember the day they buried his friend in a churchyard...
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 13 years agoI’d make Justin Tipuric my Lions No.7 says Jim Telfer
Justin Tipuric will form part of an Anglo-Welsh back row in the Lions‘ Test team this summer, according to one of...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Ryan aware that Welsh armband fits loosely
Wales have changed their captain so often in recent seasons that Ryan Jones is in his ninth spell in charge. In...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Rowlands remains Top Cat of the lineout
The 50th anniversary of perhaps the strangest of all Wales matches has come and gone with scarcely a mention. Admittedly it...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: WRU see sense with price cut
When he retired after captaining Wales at the 1995 World Cup in Johannesburg, Mike Hall began to make the most of...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Bonus points could cost Grand Slammers the title
Six years ago France went into the final match of the final round knowing exactly what they had to do to...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Vunipola’s defied dad to play for England
Wales are converting another South African to their Six Nations‘ cause and Scotland are back in the business of importing kilted...
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/ 13 years agoGrand Slam worth £100k per player this season
The Six Nations Grand Slam will be worth a record £5m to the winner when the tournament kicks off next weekend....
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: When WRU called Cliff a ‘cheat and liar’ over 4d!
When Cliff Morgan made his debut for Wales in 1951, he caught the bus from his home in the Rhondda and...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Dragons big dilemma – when to cash in on Toby
They say Toby Faletau is not for sale, that those across the border and across the Channel eager to buy him...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Magnificent Ospreys put life back into Wales
After the Grand Slam, the Grand Slump as befitting a nation where extreme mood swings tend to be the norm. After...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Let’s hear it for these Ospreys heroes!
Toulouse had been to Wales many times before last week, losing the odd game by the odd point here and there....
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Wales may rue Gatland snub for Edwards
Shaun Edwards spent the week keeping a profile low enough as to be positively subterranean over Warren Gatland‘s decision to make...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Halfpenny finds his currency on the rise
The battering taken by Wales during a troubled month threatens to have long-term consequences even for those who managed to stay...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Shameful, this waste of Hook’s huge talent
James Hook will have returned to France last weekend wondering about his future with Wales after a month in the margins....
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Featured
/ 13 years agoWallabies veto Cardiff for Wales in World Cup
The Wallabies have called on the 2015 World Cup organisers to impose a blanket ban on Wales playing in Cardiff at...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: T-shirt test revealed Gavin was an outsider
Gavin Henson has been branded a non-team player by the Wales coach who gave him his international baptism eleven years ago....
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: The force is no longer with Welsh club rugby
There used to be a time when Wales–England matches required a heavier police presence on the field than off it, when...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: It wasn’t just the money that lured Jamie away
Once this column revealed the sheer scale of the offer from Racing Metro a fortnight ago, it was just a matter...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: This ratings war is such a phoney battlefield
Wales beat England last time out at Twickenham during the course of their Grand Slam. A few months earlier, they had...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Can Jamie say Non to a fortune in Paris?
Racing Metro have put their offer for Jamie Roberts on the table – a basic £350,000-a-year for three years from next...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Young Jonny made a big impact in Wales’ debut
Jonny Wilkinson’s career has spanned 15 years and 367 matches, a tribute as much as anything to his indomitable spirit. His...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 13 years agoWales set to blood prop Aaron Jarvis poached from England
Aaron Jarvis is poised to become Wales‘ newest English convert thanks to a discovery made by an Ospreys talent scout two...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 13 years agoAll Blacks get £1.5m fee to face England
The All Blacks will command the highest fee in world rugby against England at Twickenham – £1.5m which works out at...
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Peter Jackson
/ 13 years agoPeter Jackson: Davies still pitches in to help his village club
John Davies put his neck into more than a thousand scrums over the course of 17 seasons and survived with nothing...
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