BRIAN ‘BJ’ JONES
FORMER NEWPORT, WALES, BARBARIANS AND COMBINED SERVICES CENTRE

Nowadays it is only Test payers who get the opportunity to play against the major touring sides, but I was fortunate enough to face Australia, South Africa and New Zealand and beat all three, twice with Newport and once with the Barbarians.
I became only the second person to do the ‘treble’ against the ‘big three’ on Welsh soil after Percy Bush in 1905/06. My ambition was that a Cardiff player couldn’t have the record all by himself, such was the rivalry between our cl...