Gareth Jenkins
Gareth Jenkins
Gareth John James Jenkinsis a former Welsh rugby union rugby player, and former head coach of the Welsh national team. After a long and distinguished career at Llanelli RFC, Jenkins was appointed Wales coach in 2006, succeeding Mike Ruddock. He was sacked by the Welsh Rugby Union on 30 September 2007, following Wales' failure to qualify for the quarter-finals of the 2007 Rugby World Cup. He left the role with just six wins from twenty test matches...
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What we can't afford to do and what Welsh rugby can't afford to do is to lose its stars to England or France.
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We are starting afresh from here and I am looking forward to working closely with the Welsh Rugby Union and Steve in particular. He is an innovative performance coach with 24 years' experience as a top-level manager.
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There has to be a mixture of winning against developing talent and exposing them to a standard they'll learn from.
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Multinationals are much more likely to have business interests in the United States, ... Even if what they might contemplate doing in Cuba does not fall foul of the Helms-Burton law, nevertheless, they are very sensitive to public opinion.
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I'm a proud Welshman. But provided the current people are running the WRU, I couldn't see myself working with them.
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From my point of view it's quite simple - I only want to cite if a player is injured and can take no further part in the game. I think, apart from that, I wouldn't have an opinion.
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From then on we played catch-up rugby poorly and the Wasps, bit by bit, stepped it up and took it away from us, their pressure really told on us.
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He is out of the selection process for the weekend. There isn't a huge concern, but we'll know more in the morning, 48 hours after the knock,
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I was born and bred on Anglo-Welsh clashes and some of the games were infamous,
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There was a complete lack of refereeing ability on that field.
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This is something to which I have aspired to for a long, long time. It is a job I would have been disappointed at not filling at some stage of my career.
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It was important that we left the decision up to Simon and he feels as though he is ready to play.