PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW
Thirteen World Cup games: Alun Wyn Jones in action against Japan in 2007
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His first World Cup ended on the western coast of France with Wales plunged into a national crisis which forced them to dig deep for a new coach.
The next global tournament, in Auckland four years later, took his country to within a foot or two of the final only to fall short at Eden Park when Leigh Halfpenny’s long-distance penalty floated down under the bar instead of over it.
His third shot at the biggest prize fell somewhere between the first ...
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