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Dylan must hope Lions history isn’t repeated

16 April 2017 0 comments

Not counting his chickens: England captain Dylan Hartley PICTURE: Getty Images The Lions leave the England captain at home, pick his Irish counterpart instead for […]

Parry Jones spotted Duggan’s surrender to battle fatigue

16 April 2017 1 comment

THE passing of broadcaster David Parry Jones, aged 83, evokes memories of Wales- Ireland in 1975, a unique match in that it featured the only […]

Handsome Mike had some ugly moments

16 April 2017 0 comments

MIKE PHILLIPS has been called many things in his time as befitting one who often dealt in the outrageous on and off the field. Nobody […]

Peter Jackson: JPR’s a Wales legend but was Price even better?

13 April 2017 0 comments

Anniversaries have been all the rage of late, from the 25th of England‘s last Grand Slam double under Will Carling to the 50th of Gareth […]

JPR’s a Wales legend but was Price even better?

9 April 2017 0 comments

Anniversaries have been all the rage of late, from the 25th of England’s last Grand Slam double under Will Carling to the 50th of Gareth […]

Irish give Champions Cup a six-figure boost…

9 April 2017 0 comments

NOWthat the Irish have brought the crowds back to the Champions Cup, the semi-finals are likely to reach 100,000 for the first time in eight […]

… Bath rejoice at seven-figure loss

9 April 2017 1 comment

‘BATHRugby’, the headline on the club’s website proclaimed, ‘announces improved financial performance for the 2015-16 financial year.’ At face value it seemed a source of […]

Peter Jackson: Tale of two rugby cities could not be starker

7 April 2017 0 comments

On a wintry Friday night by the Clyde, Glasgow Warriors and Newport Gwent Dragons played out a 16-all draw. So few turned up that they […]

Peter Jackson: Warren so wrong on Sam’s loss as skipper

30 March 2017 0 comments

Warren Gatland has found the oldest scapegoat under the sun for Sam Warburton losing the Wales captaincy before their worst Six Nations campaign for a […]

Peter Jackson: Unthinkable demise of Stade Francais after Mad Max’s razzmatazz

24 March 2017 0 comments

When Max Guazzini bowed out six years ago, Stade Francais had good reason to feel as safe as the Central European Bank. After all hadn’t […]

Peter Jackson: How Wales are missing Henson’s abiding class

9 March 2017 0 comments

As Wales prepare to salvage what’s left of the Six Nations, their best midfield player will be otherwise engaged in a similar operation. Gavin Henson […]

Peter Jackson: Kieran Read leads fight against rise of the machines

3 March 2017 0 comments

Kieran Read stands out in a land of giants for a reason other than his status as leader of the best team on the planet. […]

Peter Jackson: This Scotland team are a serious item

1 March 2017 0 comments

Scotland reaffirmed their status as title contenders yesterday by treating the faithful to something they had not witnessed for a long time, a Welsh team […]

Peter Jackson: No excuses, Rob, you did get it wrong over Moriarty

23 February 2017 0 comments

During the wash-up over the raging tidal wave of emotions unleashed in Cardiff all week, Wales found it necessary to deny that Ross Moriarty’s withdrawal […]

Peter Jackson: Eddie Jones finds redemption in Welsh Colditz

16 February 2017 0 comments

Eddie Jones had taken a long time to reacquaint himself with Cardiff since the Wallabies gave him the last rites for losing in rugby‘s towering […]

Peter Jackson: This farewell to a Bok hero was fit for a king

15 February 2017 0 comments

They carried his oak coffin out of Loftus Versveld a few minutes before three o’clock on Friday afternoon at the end of a funeral fit […]

Peter Jackson: Stern Vern allows himself a smile as Scotland box clever

9 February 2017 0 comments

Murrayfield rejoiced yesterday at catching a glimpse of a moment even more truly historic than the Grand Old Championship‘s first bonus point. What they witnessed […]

Peter Jackson: Open or shut case at Millennium Stadium

3 February 2017 0 comments

Just as the United Nations have America and the Mexican wall on their agenda, so the Six Nations have had Wales and the Cardiff roof […]

Peter Jackson: Like it or not George, facts are facts!

26 January 2017 0 comments

George North put his two big feet into the concussion debate the other day in sneering contempt of the media over their reporting of medical […]

Peter Jackson: Warburton’s too good to be left in the cold for long

18 January 2017 0 comments

In hindsight, Sam Warburton might have seen the writing on the wall as well as everywhere else on the day of his reappointment as captain […]

Peter Jackson: The day Big Bad Jim forgot his old pals act

13 January 2017 0 comments

The years keep rolling by but when it comes to dispensing their own brand of rough justice, a pair of Welsh internationals will still reign […]

Peter Jackson: I see a man on a tractor roaring in to lead Lions

6 January 2017 0 comments

Now 2017 has dawned, no New Year would be complete without a few gongs inspired by the events of the old one. How many of […]

Peter Jackson: Candid Phil Steele shares his demons to help others

23 December 2016 0 comments

Phil Steele has earned himself a rewarding reputation as a technical-zone television reporter and after-dinner speaker, a veritable bundle of laughs. A schoolteacher by profession, […]

Peter Jackson: Billy Boston’s old club being left for dead by the Union

16 December 2016 0 comments

The world’s first multi-racial rugby club, the one in Cardiff docks made famous by Billy Boston, is fighting for its life. The Cardiff International Athletic […]

Welsh team is hidden behind wall of silence

8 December 2016 0 comments

There used to be a time when the attendance at a Wales practice match outnumbered those at most club matches across England. The fans would […]

Warren Gatland’s Lions job hits Welsh rebuilding

1 December 2016 0 comments

In December 2013, at the height of the Welsh war when the four regions had been driven towards eloping to the English Premiership, the WRU […]

Help! We’re all being overrun by the imports

25 November 2016 0 comments

By PETER JACKSON Within the next 12 months Ireland will be free to cap several more nomadic New Zealanders. Scotland will be equally free to […]

Peter Jackson column: It’s high time someone at the WRU apologised

17 November 2016 0 comments

No matter how often they fail against the big three, Team Wales never fail to trot out the same trite excuses. No matter how grim […]

Peter Jackson: Clowns? No the joke’s on Wales when Aussies call

2 November 2016 0 comments

Wales take their annual autumn shot at the Wallabies next Saturday, driven by the assumption that they cannot go on missing indefinitely. This one will […]

Peter Jackson: Gatland’s Law pays no heed to loyalty

27 October 2016 0 comments

The Welsh Rugby Union really ought to write a thankyou letter to those nice people who run the big English clubs, Premier Rugby Ltd. There […]

Peter Jackson: Limited space? All Blacks find acres of it

21 October 2016 0 comments

One day last February after an unusually turgid round of Six Nations matches, Warren Gatland made a few observations of a strictly defensive nature. ‘’We’re […]

Peter Jackson: RPA must act over this concussion blackout

13 October 2016 0 comments

Gerry Gilpin and Ben Herring are poles apart – the former on the outer rim of Western Europe in Belfast, the other on the way […]

Peter Jackson: Tom Prydie return has reminded us of fame’s fickle nature

7 October 2016 0 comments

Tom Prydie came out of the shadows on Friday night after the longest ten months of his turbulent rugby life. As reintroductions go it may […]

Peter Jackson: Try the new Premiership game: Spot an Englishman!

29 September 2016 0 comments

When Newcastle and Leicester squared up at Kingston Park last Sunday, they set a record of sorts, one that appeared to pass without a flicker […]

Peter Jackson column: The Cardiff flier forced to abandon his dream

15 September 2016 0 comments

Billy Boston now has a life-sized statue of his very own in Wigan, a bronze creation for which the town clubbed together to raise £90,000. […]

Peter Jackson column: Solution is needed to get Ospreys flying again

8 September 2016 0 comments

According to people who know about these things, the last confirmed flight of an Osprey over Wales took place some 12 years ago. The Royal […]

Peter Jackson column: Connacht haven’t lost hunger to retain title

1 September 2016 0 comments

Even when the whole of Galway let its collective hair down for days and nights on end, John Muldoon never lost sight of the next […]

Peter Jackson: Jamie Cudmore’s crusade to curb risk of concussion

25 August 2016 0 comments

Jamie Cudmore has hurled himself into a crusade this season on behalf of rugby players all over Europe, to raise millions for the proper treatment […]

Peter Jackson: The day Newport felled the ‘Pinetree’

19 August 2016 0 comments

Over the course of more than 50 matches for the All Blacks all over the British Isles, Colin Meads only lost one – to Newport […]

Peter Jackson column: Star-finder Paul Turner can give Wales fresh hope

12 August 2016 0 comments

England‘s 45-man training squad this weekend included ten born in the Southern Hemisphere – four in New Zealand, three in Australia, two in Fiji, one […]

Peter Jackson: Misery in Wales has moulded Steve Hansen

5 August 2016 0 comments

As head coach of the All Blacks, Steve Hansen has lost three Test matches in five years. In the same position with Wales, he once […]

Peter Jackson: Yes-No interlude for Shaun Edwards

29 July 2016 0 comments

Shaun Edwards could have been forgiven for not knowing whether he was coming or going in recent weeks, an observation which had nothing to do […]

Jackson column: Somme hero Williams was the perfect wing

21 July 2016 0 comments

By Peter Jackson Some of the biggest names in the game have given it their best shot at the most elusive target in Test rugby […]

Peter Jackson column: The Welsh Lions face mauling by England

6 July 2016 0 comments

The last Lions Test team contained ten Welshmen and two English. The numbers for the next one could very easily turn out to be the […]

Peter Jackson column: Welfare is sacrificed on altar of Test cash

1 July 2016 0 comments

For those who survived the World Cup and everything else the fates threw at them, the longest of all seasons ended yesterday more than ten […]

Peter Jackson verdict: Promise fades for Wales as Steve Hansen finds a new batch

30 June 2016 0 comments

There will probably be calls this morning from Humanitarian Aid organisations for another referendum in Wales so the people can decide whether to send New […]

Peter Jackson column: Jonathan Davies loses his mentor and Wales lose a star

24 June 2016 0 comments

A beacon of pure brilliance went out shortly before midnight on Thursday. Peter Corrigan, for so long a permanent fixture among the hierarchy in the […]

Peter Jackson verdict: Wales bewitched by Beauden Barrett

23 June 2016 0 comments

There is such a terrible beauty about Beauden Barrett that as soon as he appeared Wales had good reason to fear the worst, that the […]

Peter Jackson column: Rugby has become too destructive for own good

17 June 2016 0 comments

The human wreckage of one club’s season can be gauged from some brutal facts – 30 significant injuries requiring more than 20 operations. The most […]

Peter Jackson verdict: The All Blacks got up off the canvas

16 June 2016 0 comments

Peter The cognoscenti had been nodding all over New Zealand all week in agreement with Christian Cullen’s prognosis, that Wales wouldn’t be able to live […]

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