By PETER JACKSON
Alun Wyn Jones abandoned the last goal of his monumental career amid growing fears of failing to make the final cut for a fifth World Cup.
His abrupt retirement with immediate effect, so abrupt that not even his Ospreys’ employers knew it was coming, followed friendly warnings from within the Wales camp of uncertainty over his selection for France this autumn.
That can be the only plausible explanation for the world’s most-capped player deciding to quit only days before he had been due to go into Wales’ first pre-tournament assembly as the senior member of a 54-man trainin...
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