Peter Jackson

This is where you will find all of The Rugby Paper’s Peter Jackson news, views, opinion and other content.

Mullen is so sorry to see his club fall

18 June 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW BRIAN Mullen has spent his working life helping a multitude of people keep a roof over their […]

Ireland fears are building for Sexton

18 June 2023 0 comments

Four weeks after the event, European Club Rugby is still investigating Johnny Sexton’s confrontation with all three match officials at the end of Leinster’s Champions’ […]

He’s quite some man, that Emery…

11 June 2023 0 comments

David Emery 1946-2023 Peter Jackson looks back on the life and times of a giant in the world of sport and newspapers The Sixties hadn’t […]

Safety first as red cards rise to an all-time high

11 June 2023 0 comments

Peter Jackson finds that only Ireland kept on the right side of every referee as the game gets to grips with improved safety Red cards […]

Top Cat happy to recall the glory days

11 June 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW THE only man to captain Wales, coach Wales, select Wales, manage Wales, and the Lions, is sitting […]

There’s no stopping Ramos

11 June 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Thomas Ramos is en route to finishing the season 100 or so points clear of his nearest challenger across Europe’s three major Leagues. […]

After this, Prince Harry could be calling AWJ

11 June 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Alun Wyn Jones continues to treat ‘the media’ with such contempt that it may be but a matter of time before Prince Harry […]

Following famous footsteps

4 June 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON When he lived in one of London’s swishest hotels at the height of his trans-Atlantic stardom, Richard Harris made a confession over a […]

McCaw tips Wales to cause carnage

4 June 2023 0 comments

THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW When it comes to talking about ‘carnage’ at the World Cup, nobody is more impeccably qualified on the subject […]

Keyboard warriors target Carre case

4 June 2023 0 comments

The Welsh Rugby Union has been bombarded from all directions all year that it seems almost unfair to point out that they are under renewed […]

Eddie is putting his mind to it

4 June 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Australia scrum-half Nic White came up with an interesting observation on Eddie Jones finding room for three psychologists in the Wallaby entourage as […]

Putting the boot in – but not if it’s bright green …

28 May 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Tawera Kerr-Barlow’s fluorescent green boots, as worn when La Rochelle dared to give Leinster a 17-point start […]

Alarm as Europe just keeps getting smaller

28 May 2023 0 comments

Europe, as defined by European Professional Club Rugby, is in the process of shrinking almost as alarmingly as the English Premiership. Where one organisation loses […]

O’Gara’s touch of Old Big ’Ead

28 May 2023 0 comments

On the face of it, Brian Clough and Ronan O’Gara do not appear to have much in common: different ball games, different countries, different personalities […]

Kerr-Barlow pines for Eddie

24 May 2023 0 comments

Tawera Kerr-Barlow, probably the second best scrum-half in the world behind you-know-who, would love to do the Southern Hemisphere equivalent of Henry Thomas switching allegiance […]

Dallaglio’s turned into Nostradamus

21 May 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Of the 12 clubs to have won European rugby’s supreme prize, only one dared to do so […]

Toulouse’s homemade champions

21 May 2023 0 comments

The original champions of Europe could have put their collective feet up on Saturday knowing that neither contender in Dublin would come remotely close to […]

Sorrowful shadow blights the game

14 May 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW FOR month after miserable month, Welsh rugby had been crying out for someone to give their apology […]

Warriors gather for Coulman farewell

14 May 2023 0 comments

Old warriors from both sides of what used to be The Great Divide joined early on Monday afternoon to pay their last respects to one […]

The day one smart man showed us how to behave

7 May 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The last time Wales selected an English prop, Colin Smart of Newport, they made the mistake of […]

Arresting sight of Coulman’s solo gallop

30 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW AT Twickenham more than 50 years ago, Mike Coulman did something that had not been seen there […]

Welsh quartet deserve no favours

30 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Cardiff lost 50 per cent of their matches in the URC and duly failed to finish in the Champions Cup qualifying zone. That […]

Proud Lions standing the test of time

30 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Despite having celebrated his 93rd birthday earlier this month, Lewis Jones might consider himself a bit of a Johnny-come-lately compared to the grandest […]

After 23 years, it’s all over for Myler

23 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The longest career of the 21st century came to a cruelly anti-climactic end yesterday, its creator denied […]

Nevers is taken over by the mob

23 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Nevers is about as close to being smack bang in the centre of France as any city gets, a place which has known […]

Case of the lesser spotted Test stars

16 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Nobody takes a bigger bashing from Test rugby than the Welsh regions which explains why some players […]

Sorry, Rob, but there’s a price to pay for indiscipline

16 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON So Rob Baxter wishes to obliterate the deterrent effect of the red card by allowing sent-off players to be replaced, thereby saving matches […]

When Lewis made history for the Lions

16 April 2023 0 comments

At home in his adopted Yorkshire the other day, Lewis Jones answered the phone with a cheerful response to being wished a happy birthday. “How […]

So where have all the fly-halves gone?

9 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Since the last World Cup, Wales have picked eight fly-halves. By the end of the next one, […]

Montpellier deserve better

9 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE organisers of Europe’s blue riband club event had all week to make a public apology for heaping one injustice after another on […]

One man who made sure he went the distance

9 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON There have been no shortage of X-certificate England-Wales matches, notably the notorious 1980 scrap at Twickenham when all manner of grevious bodily harm […]

AWJ out to climb his final mountain

2 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Warrior: Alun Wyn Jones in action against Saracens in 2008 PICTURE: Getty Images FOR the last 17 […]

When Peter enjoyed his day in the sun

2 April 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Peter Thomas never seemed happier than on a blazing summer’s day by the shores of the Mediterranean. Cardiff, the club he repeatedly rescued […]

Time to stop the rot that is dragging WRU down

26 March 2023 2 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Had Shakespeare been around to rewrite Hamlet as a footballing fiasco, a tiny tweak to one of […]

All over for Evans after 111 lineouts

26 March 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON The Beatles’ first album and Ron Evans’ landing on the international stage happened as near simultaneously in 1963 as made no difference. Please, […]

McKinney will donate his brain to science

19 March 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Stewart McKinney’s name will forever be enshrined in the Lions pantheon alongside the few whose invincibility in […]

Bob Burrows, the man who opened door for Living with Lions

19 March 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Bob Burrows joined the BBC from Fleet Street via the Yorkshire Post during the heady days of late summer 1966 over England‘s footballers […]

Benny’s charity gets off to a flier

19 March 2023 1 comment

PETER JACKSON Phil Bennett would not have believed it possible that a dinner to mark the launch of a charity in his name would raise […]

Biggar sets sights on World Cup finale

12 March 2023 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Dan Biggar started the season as captain of Wales, all the wiser for having gone from one […]

The day Hill saw Llanelli’s pubs run dry

12 March 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Andy Hill was a painter and decorator by trade, never to more devastating effect than at Stradey Park on Halloween 1972 when his […]

Days when being sent off was not common

5 March 2023 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW What happened in Paris last Sunday added an ironic postscript to a time when the home countries […]

Battle cry will always remind us of ‘Briano’

5 March 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE massed regiments of the Red Army will never forget Brian O’Brien. They will ensure he is remembered across every square inch of […]

Pointless! Wales have nothing to show in this bleakest of winters

26 February 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Despite issuing an avalanche of apologies over scandals on and off the pitch, Welsh rugby’s besieged management were left staring last night at […]

Southern invasion gives no comfort

26 February 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW When the rest of Welsh rugby kept falling to its knees before their ‘Great Redeeemer’, one man […]

Even acting CEO Walker must wonder how it all came to this

26 February 2023 0 comments

Another week of crisis management brought another damning indictment of the Welsh Rugby Union’s policy to any bone of contention: ‘Say nothing, keep saying nothing […]

Biggar has no one to blame but himself

19 February 2023 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Had Wales only opted to man the picket lines outside Murrayfield instead of the barricades inside, Dan […]

Ireland show just how farWales have to go

19 February 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON • A Ferrari is said to go from a standstill to 50mph in 2.9 seconds. The one seen at Twickenham last Sunday went […]

When the boys of ’68 were set to strike

19 February 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Only two world wars have interrupted the annual England-Wales fixture since its inception on Mr Richardson’s Field in the London suburb of Blackheath […]

Charlie’s move to roll back the years

12 February 2023 15 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Charlie Faulkner will be remembered for his many achievements; from judo black belt to the Pontypool Front […]