Peter Jackson

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

Thinking prop Ray believed persistence trumped all

28 November 2021 1 comment

Peter Jackson remembers the life of Ireland’s great British Lion Ray McLoughlin When they laid Ray McLoughlin to rest last Wednesday, the Lions he left […]

Baby faced, but Pearce is a ref to be reckoned with

21 November 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Saturday, April 11, 2015 at The Stoop and Harlequins are playing Gloucester in front of a full-house […]

‘I was watching Wales game when drunk fell on us from two rows up’

21 November 2021 3 comments

PETER JACKSON ANOTHER victim of drunken behaviour at the Principality Stadium has asked the Welsh Rugby Union for his money back over a ‘horrendous’ incident […]

Drunken yobs end Craig’s 50-year Wales love affair

14 November 2021 2 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Craig James has been watching Wales since his father took him at the age of nine for […]

United nations of Scotland

7 November 2021 1 comment

PETER JACKSON ALL BAR one of Scotland’s ten tries against Tonga came courtesy of players born far from Flodden Field – Kyle Steyn (Johannesburg), Rufus […]

Teen star Prydie is looking for a new club

7 November 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Youngest ever: Tom Prydie playing for Wales v Italy in 2010 PICTURE: Getty Images Tom Prydie landed […]

Hodgkinson must have a wry smile

7 November 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON ENGLAND players stand to collect circa £70,000-a-man from the RFU should they complete an autumn hat-trick by beating Australia and South Africa. And […]

Test match? More a cash match, Ian!

7 November 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE latest in the neverending series of mismatches between Wales and New Zealand ought to have left certain All Black coaches cringing at […]

Don’t ignore Hayman

7 November 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON CARL Hayman’s distressing diagnosis of early-onset dementia, as revealed by New Zealand journalist Dylan Cleaver in his gripping interview with the former All […]

Battered Sandy takes his secret to the grave

31 October 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Every now and then, whenever the x-certificate stuff reared its ugly head during a Lions tour, Sandy […]

Nonu’s coming to America, better tell San Diego!

31 October 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON MA’A NONU’S tendency to make Vasco da Gama look a trifle seasick by comparison still knows no bounds. As another season south of […]

Shanklins suffer twice at hands of All Blacks

24 October 2021 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The Shanklin family from Pembrokeshire knows exactly what it takes to go the distance with the All […]

Early bird Baxter got some giant pickings

17 October 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW One day more than two years ago, Rob Baxter got up at four in the morning to […]

Vermeulen in not quite such a hurry to join Ulster after all

17 October 2021 2 comments

PETER JACKSON DUANE Vermeulen was only saying the other week about how he ‘couldn’t wait to become part of the Ulster family’ once the Springboks […]

Hastings’ historic act won this battle of Murrayfield

17 October 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON GEORGE Hastings from Dursley is a name which will still ring a faint bell in the memories of long-standing Gloucester supporters and yet […]

Alun Wyn stays shtum on private matters

10 October 2021 2 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Say Nothing is an awardwinning book on ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland, its title a nod to […]

Anayi finds TV figures after all

10 October 2021 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THREE years ago PRO12 rugby chose to disconnect a multitude of viewers by wiping their matches off live BBC screens in Northern Ireland, […]

Readers complete Rugby XV name game

10 October 2021 1 comment

THANKS to all those prompted by the Max Wiltshire story last week, the assembly of a Place Name XV can now be revealed, complete with […]

Sorry seems to be the easiest word

3 October 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW RYNO Pieterse’s horizontal hit on Bordeaux scrum-half Maxime Lucu demanded a long sentence. The Top 14 disciplinary […]

Why Clive Griffiths will dodge All Blacks showdown | Peter Jackson

3 October 2021 0 comments

On the last Saturday of this month, Clive Griffiths could have been watching Wales-New Zealand in Cardiff free of charge. He has chosen to head […]

No one messed with this mighty Max

3 October 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON SOME famous players had to make do with bearing the name of one place in England’s green and pleasant land, like the last […]

Quinnell’s All Black hat-trick is still supreme | Peter Jackson

26 September 2021 0 comments

When it comes to Welshmen performing hat-tricks on the international stage, Tommy Cooper could claim to have outscored John Charles, Ian Rush and Gareth Bale […]

Nathan, the Panther, defied his broken jaw

26 September 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE French christened him La Panthere Noire, Waka Nathan simply the supreme openside wing forward of his time. New Zealand never lost a […]

Revealed: Aftermath of Willie’s Haka attack

19 September 2021 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW For sheer knee-knocking, eye-balling, lip-trembling fury, there has never been a Haka like the one orchestrated by […]

They’re missing the inimitable taste of Steele at Scrum V

19 September 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON PHIL Steele’s treasure trove of tall stories includes one which illustrates why when it comes to breeding Lions, a village in Carmarthenshire once […]

Jordie judgement makes an ass of World Rugby

12 September 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Jordie Barrett raises his outstretched right boot high above the ground and the upended studs strike Marika […]

Patient Jacques Rogge got his reward

12 September 2021 1 comment

BY THE sound of it, Jacques Rogge’s passing late last month at the age of 79 has robbed the international game of its most humble […]

Quade Cooper back, just like Morne

12 September 2021 0 comments

MORNE Steyn couldn’t have known that what he did to the Lions last month would become something of a global trend. The Springbok’s triumphant return […]

Night horrors keep Will Hurrell so worried about future

5 September 2021 0 comments

Two seasons after it happened at Welford Road, Will Hurrell is still suffering from the ‘really horrible’ effects of the tackle that finished him. They […]

Sean Fitzpatrick raises key question for regions | Peter Jackson

29 August 2021 0 comments

The role of central contracts and players actually playing for their region has been an issue that has long negated the PRO14. Can a new rebrand change things?

Georgians dominate Top 14 pack | Peter Jackson

29 August 2021 0 comments

SHOULD a strange sound be heard in the Kremlin, it will probably be Stalin spinning in his grave. The brutal Soviet dictator will be sounding […]

Voters ‘No’ to Dexter and Carwyn | Peter Jackson

29 August 2021 1 comment

TED DEXTER would have been amused to be classed in the same bracket as Carwyn James and Clem Thomas. By standing for Parliament, England’s imperious […]

Michael Hooper shows his class in best Wallaby tradition | Peter Jackson

22 August 2021 0 comments

Another Bledisloe Cup series leaves the Wallabies captain on the losing side

Why no fixtures out yet for URC?

22 August 2021 0 comments

ONE month to go and still no word of the fixtures for the opening round of the United Rugby Championship. At close of business on […]

No risk, no reward for Gatland’s stolid Lions | Peter Jackson

15 August 2021 0 comments

Peter Jackson looks at some of the contentious moments on the field during the 2021 Lions tour

Alun Wyn Jones four letter faux-pas | Peter Jackson

15 August 2021 1 comment

TWELVE men – four Irish, four Welsh, two English, two Scottish – have captained the Lions over the last 50 years, each and every one […]

Will Greenwood needed mute button | Peter Jackson

15 August 2021 0 comments

AMONG the massed ranks of Englishspeaking sportsmen and women, few can match Will Greenwood’s command of the language. His ever-readiness to talk for the world […]

Owen Farrell Lions snub means he misses a major milestone | Peter Jackson

8 August 2021 1 comment

Owen Farrell stands in some esteemed company as England and Lions fly-half

Even the All Blacks honoured the quality of full-back Terry Price | Peter Jackson

8 August 2021 0 comments

The Welsh full-back revered by the Kiwis during the late 1950s

Hobson’s choice was always set on England

1 August 2021 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW All-rounder: Jason Hobson scores the opening try for Bristol in their Welsh Cup match against Bath PICTURE: […]

Gareth Baber gets his hands on a medal at last | Peter Jackson

1 August 2021 0 comments

Welshman Gareth Baber followed the successes of Ben Ryan five years ago in Rio by taking Fiji to gold in Tokyo

Lions have blind spot for English flankers in Test series openers | Peter Jackson

25 July 2021 2 comments

How the each of the four unions have contributed to first Test selection on Lions tours going back to 1971, and the trends that arise

Hardest job was getting ‘Dommers’ off cakes! | Peter Jackson

18 July 2021 1 comment

Cardiff Met director of rugby Danny Milton talks to Peter Jackson about Alex Dombrandt’s time in BUCS Super Rugby

Poite was plain wrong, there is no justification | Peter Jackson

11 July 2021 1 comment

The All Blacks may still hold rancour up to the next Lions tour over Romain Poite’s decision to not penalise Ken Owens late on against the Lions in 2017

Josh Adams on trail of great O’Reilly | Peter Jackson

11 July 2021 0 comments

Josh Adams’ try-scoring record is very close to being unmatched

France in late pain once again | Peter Jackson

11 July 2021 0 comments

France have trouble sticking with it through to the end in Test matches

Conor Murray part of Munster legacy with the Lions | Peter Jackson

4 July 2021 0 comments

From his home by the banks of the broad, majestic Shannon, Keith Wood considers one of the more startling facts about to be woven into […]

Old-school Barrie Thomas had the ear of superstars | Peter Jackson

4 July 2021 0 comments

BACK in the day of thriving local newspapers and soaring sales in the Welsh communities they served, each and every one had its own rugby […]

Record man Sam Simmonds did it the hard way – how the stats measure up

4 July 2021 3 comments

During the last season before the RFU plucked up the courage to organise League rugby, Dean Richards scored 20 tries for Leicester over the course […]