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Wales look for Warren Gatland stand-in as Lions wait

3 May 2016 0 comments

Warren Gatland‘s almost certain invitation to lead the Lions has led Wales to make the first move towards appointing a caretaker head coach. Eddie Jones’ […]

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, […]

England and Wales in £10m match deal

5 April 2016 0 comments

England and Wales have struck a deal worth up to £10m to play two more matches immediately before the next World Cup. The cooling of […]

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 […]

Leigh Halfpenny still caught in Toulon or Wales row

29 March 2016 0 comments

Leigh Halfpenny is to make his come-back next Saturday with Toulon refusing to release him for Wales’ tour of New Zealand. Negotiations between the Welsh […]

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. […]

Six Nations veto bonus points bid as ‘unfair’

26 January 2016 0 comments

The Six Nations have renewed their policy against bonus points despite a rising clamour for their introduction. Their decision to stick with the traditional scoring […]

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 […]

Wales stars in exile face All Blacks’ tour axe

12 January 2016 0 comments

Wales face the prospect of confronting the All Blacks this summer without four of their World Cup players. The first victims of the Welsh Rugby […]

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 […]

Twickenham clash worth £2m for Welsh rugby

8 December 2015 0 comments

RFU will end up paying Wales £2m when they line up for the final act of their HQ trilogy in May.

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. […]

Wales bid to keep Shaun Edwards from RFU

17 November 2015 0 comments

Wales have presented Shaun Edwards with a brand new contract and asked him to sign on for four more years. The Red Dragons’ favourite Englishman […]

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. […]

Dan Biggar set to sign on for 2019 World Cup

3 November 2015 0 comments

Welsh fly-half is finalising a new deal to stay in Wales for another crack at the World Cup.

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 […]