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Peter Jackson column: Wales, it’s time to give All Blacks a real Test!

9 June 2016 0 comments

When Wales touched down in Auckland the other day, the All Blacks did their level best to ensure them a soft landing. In doing so, […]

Peter Jackson column: Fans flock to watch match with no meaning

3 June 2016 0 comments

England against Wales at Twickenham last autumn resulted in the hosts being ejected from the World Cup with indecent haste. The next door neighbours had […]

Peter Jackson column: The Welshman who helped spark Saracens’ revolution

26 May 2016 0 comments

Mark Evans has never forgotten his first night of European football, watching Cardiff City beat Real Madrid from the blue-collar Grange End at Ninian Park. […]

Peter Jackson column: James Davies can use Warren Gatland snub to star in Olympics

20 May 2016 0 comments

According to Warren Gatland, New Zealand is no country for young men to be initiated into the ranks of Test rugby, especially those of the […]

Peter Jackson column: Even with TMOs, referees still miss foul play

13 May 2016 0 comments

At close of play on Friday night, 23 players had been sent off in European club competition this season compared to 37 during the whole […]

Peter Jackson column: Little big man Harry Robinson joins list of mini victims

6 May 2016 0 comments

Harry Robinson’s first tour as a newly-capped international three years ago ended with a glowing report from the Wales management. Despite being forced to settle […]

Peter Jackson column: Underdogs Connacht my team of the season

29 April 2016 0 comments

Pat Lam achieved some notable firsts as a player at the end of the 20th century and the start of the 21st. A permanent fixture […]

Peter Jackson column: Johnny McNicholl bid mocks the registration rules

22 April 2016 0 comments

Johnny McNicholl has no Welsh ancestry. Nor has he set foot in Wales, but already he has spoken about his desire to play for Wales […]

Peter Jackson column: Buy Dragons? No way on God’s earth! says David Moffett

14 April 2016 0 comments

The Dragons‘ ‘For Sale‘ signs had no sooner gone up at Rodney Parade than a controversial figure began putting some distance between himself and his […]

Peter Jackson column: Stripe me! How can this Zebre side be Champions?

8 April 2016 0 comments

Zebre have lost their last four away matches by scores that could double up as opening stands at the T20 World Cup – 52-0, 32-0, […]

Peter Jackson column: Ravaged All Blacks offer hope to Wales

31 March 2016 0 comments

The striking similarities between Julian Savea and Nehe Milner-Skudder extend beyond the fact that each has scored eight tries in his last eight Tests for […]

Peter Jackson column: Glen Webbe shows laughter is still the best medicine

24 March 2016 0 comments

Glen Webbe was the first black British player to appear in the World Cup and the first of any colour to score a hat-trick of […]

Peter Jackson: Phew, a Grand Slam at last and not yet another grand shambles

23 March 2016 0 comments

And so ‘Fast Eddie’ has lived up to his name. A Six Nations Grand Slam at the first attempt made all the more significant given […]

Peter Jackson’s column: Time is on your side, Ian, but are Wales?

17 March 2016 0 comments

As career records go, it surely stands supreme – three Six Nations’ tournaments, three Six Nations titles and two Grand Slams. Out of a grand […]

Peter Jackson column: Come on Wales, try and give us a thrill

10 March 2016 0 comments

Wales will bring their Iron Curtain to Twickenham next week and defy England to find a way through. They will man it with hi-tech proficiency […]

Peter Jackson column: Why France are at sixes and sevens over David Smith

3 March 2016 0 comments

There was a time when rugby enjoyed a titter at football’s expense over their nationality laws and the amusing case of a balding Cockney centre-half. […]

Peter Jackson column: Let’s ban the booze – at least during the match

26 February 2016 0 comments

Wales opened their wondrous new stadium to a fanfare of fancy features, not least its capacity to pour alcohol in record time – 12 pints […]

Peter Jackson column: James Bird swoops into pole position with Eagles

18 February 2016 0 comments

Goalkicking fly-halves turned out mob-handed for the opening round of the Six Nations, all nine of them. How wonderful to report that a relatively unknown […]

Peter Jackson column: Graham Henry was right, Wales: Start using your brains!

12 February 2016 0 comments

In the relentless search for a psychological edge, Wales could have done worse than given their backs a jolting reminder of what one Kiwi thinks […]

Peter Jackson verdict on France – Much more of this and Guy Noves will feel his age

11 February 2016 0 comments

When France last required the services of Guy Noves, the Fifth Republic as headed by Charles de Gaulle had barely completed its second decade. Four […]

Peter Jackson column: Irish get set for Storm Gatland to blast Dublin

5 February 2016 0 comments

The deep depression hanging over Ireland has nothing to do with Storm Gertrude and everything to do with Wales landing in Dublin this coming weekend. […]

Peter Jackson: Star-maker Elis Wyn Williams earnt place amid the greats

21 January 2016 0 comments

In the Pantheon of scrum-halves, Welsh names are embossed in gold, spanning the decades from the tragic Dicky Owen to the knighted Gareth Edwards. Haydn […]

Peter Jackson column: Friday fun and games is strictly for Wales

15 January 2016 0 comments

Friday night fever of the virulent Six Nations kind will break out again in Cardiff next month. France in Round Three on the last Friday […]

Perter Jackson column: Chris Ralston sad as ‘innocent’ man Charlie Thomas passes away

7 January 2016 0 comments

This is the story of Anglo-Welsh rugby‘s most enduring who dun it, a mystery involving an English Lion and a Welsh prop who made front-page […]

Peter Jackson column: Craig Joubert and Rupert Murdoch make it a year to remember

1 January 2016 0 comments

Half a century from now, when Georgia win the Ten Nations and two clubs from Mars replace the Italians in the Pro 12, history will […]

Peter Jackson: Out for the count, Europe’s big three

31 December 2015 0 comments

There have been six multiple winners of what is now known as the Champions’ Cup and two have gone already, counted out with indecent haste. […]

Peter Jackson column: BBC snub lets bigots back into the game

17 December 2015 0 comments

On their biennial visit to Cardiff over three decades from the early Sixties, England played the role of the compliant guest to perfection. They never […]

Peter Jackson column: Foreign legion encamps at No.8

11 December 2015 0 comments

England, Ireland, Italy and Scotland are in the process of acquiring No.8’s from the Southern Hemisphere for the New Year. France have the option of […]

Peter Jackson column: Is George North’s new deal really such a delight?

4 December 2015 0 comments

George North proclaims himself “massively delighted” to be extending his stay at Northampton beyond this season. Head coach Jim Mallinder, a down-to-earth Yorkshireman, contents himself […]

Peter Jackson column: Dan Biggar is the man to lead Ospreys on glory run

26 November 2015 0 comments

Dan Biggar goes to work this afternoon in a place surrounded by volcanic mountains, a suitable location for an Osprey who has taken his trade […]

Peter Jackson – If Warren Gatland intends to stay why not say so?

18 November 2015 0 comments

The Welsh Rugby Union deny that their long-term contract with Warren Gatland contains a clause allowing another country to buy him out for £1.5 million. […]

Peter Jackson: When WRU sneak tried to ban us over £50 expenses

6 November 2015 0 comments

On the Sunday before we played England at the Arms Park in February 1975, five of the Wales team chosen the previous week were called […]

Peter Jackson comment: Whisper it…this could be the finest team we’ve ever seen!

5 November 2015 0 comments

In between winning World Cups, Steve Hansen took a course in horse whispering for reasons far removed from the block-busting Hollywood movie starring Robert Redford. […]

Peter Jackson column: Heroes? No,Wales lost plot when it mattered!

30 October 2015 0 comments

Scotland took their enforced leave of the World Cup in a state of understandable high dudgeon hours after Ireland had beaten them to it, suffering […]

Peter Jackson comment: Get ready to crown team for all seasons

28 October 2015 0 comments

And so it has almost come to pass, the All Black coronation of New Zealand as the supreme long-term rulers of Planet Rugby. One more […]

Peter Jackson comment: Sorry, Dr Roberts, but the only diagnosis can be that it’s been gruesome

21 October 2015 0 comments

Jamie Roberts described the Springbok experience pre-match in one word: gruesome, as in the context of wounded Lions queuing up for ambulances after their last […]

Peter Jackson column: England’s debacle? It’s all fault of Boris Johnson!

16 October 2015 0 comments

Boris Johnson is addressing the great and the good on the occasion of the World Cup draw at the Tate Modern on the first Monday […]

Peter Jackson column: Brynmor’s lad is still selling to dummies

9 October 2015 0 comments

The man in Seat 54, Row U of the middle tier of the East Stand looked down on a familiar figure darting along the touchline […]

Peter Jackson column: Don’t be a man, stay down says Jonathan Thomas

30 September 2015 0 comments

Jonathan Thomas began wondering whether something might be wrong when he spoke to the Worcester Warriors’ squad one day last October. “I had two or […]

Peter Jackson’s verdict: Who needs Leigh Halfpenny when you’ve got Dan Biggar?

29 September 2015 0 comments

They paid £20,000,000 to be ringside at Twickenham last night, a suitably monstrous sum for a neighbourly battle billed as the Monster Bash of this […]

Peter Jackson’s column: Let’s hope Warren Gatland won’t take a kicking

18 September 2015 0 comments

Wales went into their semi-final at the last World Cup fully loaded with goalkickers – a veritable arsenal of weaponry providing enough ammunition for every […]

Peter Jackson’s column: Hair Bear Adam Jones has to take his share of the blame

11 September 2015 0 comments

Michael Clarke retired from the Test arena on a point of honour. Adam Jones did so in a fit of pique. One chose to fall […]

Peter Jackson: Mauro Bergamasco debut ruined by England’s lucky break

4 September 2015 0 comments

Mauro Bergamasco and the World Cup go back a long way, to a chilly Sunday in Yorkshire during the last century when England got lucky […]

Peter Jackson’s column: Ironman’s meteoric rise stands test of time

27 August 2015 1 comment

The eighth World Cup will generate more money than the previous seven. It may even produce a Six Nations winner but it will not come […]

Peter Jackson’s column: Mike Phillips axe gives Gareth Davies a glimpse of redemption

19 August 2015 0 comments

Gareth Davies changed the course of history in Rome on Super Saturday, albeit not in the way he would have wanted – a dropped pass […]

Peter Jackson’s column: TV drops Gareth Edwards… unlike Lions and Wales

14 August 2015 1 comment

Wales never went anywhere without him and neither did the Lions. Just as the unbeatable Joe Calzaghe never lost a world title fight in eleven […]

Peter Jackson’s column: Winning is same in any language for Michael Cheika

7 August 2015 0 comments

Michael Cheika speaks French, Italian and Arabic. He is also known to be fluent in coarse Anglo-Saxon and looks forward to leaving England or Wales […]

Peter Jackson’s column: Over-load on players so wrong says Larder

29 July 2015 0 comments

George Ford played 32 matches for club and country last season, more than any of his international contemporaries anywhere in Europe. At a time when […]

Peter Jackson’s column: Vernon Pugh was right, we’re playing too many Tests

17 July 2015 0 comments

Fifty years ago, Jack Kyle held the record as the world’s most-capped player with 46 matches for Ireland. It had taken the good doctor ten […]

Peter Jackson’s column: Accept it, Gatland’s Law is now a nonsense

2 July 2015 1 comment

Like Mo Farah’s front doorbell when the drug testers came calling, Warren Gatland‘s eponymous law has much to answer for. As another Welsh Lion prepares […]

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