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 winters, Alun Wyn Jones has been trying to find a way from Swansea to Mont Blanc and the summit of European club competition. For each of those winters, he has wound up taking all sorts of dead-end routes in search of the Alpine nirvana. On the three occasions when his Ospreys managed to get as far as the foothills, they were knocked out at Vicarage Road, then Thomond Park; places not known for the scent of edelweiss nor the sight of snow-cappe...