When forwards go rogue
It’s pretty easy...scrum, lineout, ruck. Yet some forwards have shown they can’t follow that simple brief
Owain Jones
24 Sep 2020, 12:23
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Owain Jones
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Owain has been writing and editing about rugby since 2004. He has edited matchday programmes for the WRU, publications for the British & Irish Lions and written for the Guinness Pro14. A regular voice on BBC Radio Wales, from 2011 to 2018, he was the editor of Rugby World Magazine. He has been writing for RugbyPass since 2019.
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Neil Martin, CEO of RugbyPass, has announced that the company - bought by Sky New Zealand in August 2019 - have launched a new sub…
Owain Jones
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Five PRO14 stars who did their international ambitions no harm on rugby's return
Waiting for rugby to restart in the Pro14 must have, at times, felt like being the Shawshank Redemption’s Andy Dufresne, chippin…
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Owain Jones
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Six England backrow contenders to threaten the established order
The established order in the England backrow seems unruffled. A settled trio. At the base of the scrum is the guv’nor, Billy Vun…
Owain Jones
08 Aug 2020, 5:00
What the Scarlets best XV might look like next season
The Scarlets are the best funded of the Welsh regions and in recent years, the most successful, with a Pro12 title banked in 2017 …
Owain Jones
06 Aug 2020, 11:01
'The beautiful game is replaced by hard rugby, by the taste of blood in the mouth.'
It’s a well-worn cliché from British rugby fans that the Les Bleus are a little, well, crazy, their Latin temperaments on occas…
Owain Jones
19 Jul 2020, 4:09
'At training, I'd think, 'I'm s****ing my pants a bit here'. It was so intense. I didn't want to hurt my teammates'
Nick Williams has had twelve years as a professional rugby player in Europe, an odyssey the Cardiff back row traces back to a toug…
Owain Jones
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What the Cardiff Blues XV might look like next season...
The Cardiff Blues have quietly gone about their transfer business in the last two close-seasons by making a series of shrewd signi…
Owain Jones
02 Jul 2020, 14:13
'I can see him making it at the top level. He's got the world at his feet' - Nick Kennedy on Scarlets target Johnny Williams
When Hadleigh Parkes and Owen Williams were confirmed as heading for Japanese Top League, there was a collective sigh in Wales, fo…
Owain Jones
26 Jun 2020, 7:16
Where are they now? The All Blacks team 25 years after their 1995 World Cup final defeat
The all-conquering All Blacks headed to Jo'burg confident of a win over the Springboks but on a fateful World Cup day in 1995, the…
Owain Jones
24 Jun 2020, 13:00
Where are they now? The last Scotland team of the amateur era 25 years after their exit from the 1995 World Cup
June 11 marks the 25th anniversary of when the last Scotland team of the old amateur era faced Jonah Lomu’s New Zealand in the W…
Owain Jones
11 Jun 2020, 12:37
Where are they now? The last Australia team of the amateur era 25 years after their exit from the 1995 World Cup
Reigning World Cup champions Australia lost to England in the 1995 quarter-finals, Rob Andrew's late drop-goal eliminating them.
Owain Jones
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Scrum-halves in their 30s don't usually start at a World Cup, so jockeying for No9 has started in Wales for France 2023
The average age of a starting Wales scrum-half at a World Cup is 26 years and 4 months, which suggests Webb and Davies are up agai…
Owain Jones
05 Jun 2020, 13:32
Where are they now? The last Wales team of the amateur era 25 years after their 1995 World Cup exit
June 4 is the 25th anniversary of the last Wales amateur era team… RugbyPass looks at how their players coped with professionali…
Owain Jones
04 Jun 2020, 13:52
'When our coaches mentioned they had seen a load of champers going into the Bristol changing room, we were absolutely raging'
Phil Dollman and Tom Johnson reflect on the pre-game motivation 10 years ago that helped promote Exeter and turn them into a Premi…
Owain Jones
26 May 2020, 14:08
'I'm not the most genetically gifted, but I've got a good enough understanding to excel defensively'
Admired as a thought and deed leader, the influence of young Fraser Dingwall at Northampton Saints has quickly thrust him into a p…
Owain Jones
20 May 2020, 14:01
The obsessive coming to Scarlets: 'He just eats mince and rice in a cubby hole in his locker room'
The appointment of Ben Franks as Scarlets scrum coach ruffled some Welsh feathers but Tom Wood insists the region is getting a qua…
Owain Jones
19 May 2020, 13:49
'I've matured… I'm no longer the 23-year-old who likes just going out for a drink with the boys'
Sam Davies faced a career-defining decision a year ago after the Ospreys unveiled Gareth Anscombe…the out-half left for Dragons …
Owain Jones
17 May 2020, 3:12
Embarrassingly 'nilled' by rivals Scarlets, Ospreys are in dire need of a head coach with vision and gravitas
If the shellacking dished out by their rivals across the Loughor was nightmarish, there is no easy respite for a region lacking in…
Owain Jones
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