I Was Devastated ; Wales and Lions Fly-Half Stephen Jones has Lifted the Lid On His Rugby Secrets in a New Autobiography, Which the Western Mail Begins Publishing Extracts From Today. Here We Focus On How Jones Handled Being Told He Was Not First-Choice No 10 During the 2008 Grand Slam Campaign Under Warren Gatland

Western Mail › September 26, 2009

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LIKE everybody else, I knew of Warren Gatland's success with Ireland and Wasps, but next to nothing about him as a man or a coach.

I didn't know what his rugby philosophy was, what he wanted from his players, what type of players he liked or what style of rugby he wanted to employ.

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I Was Devastated ; Wales and Lions Fly-Half Stephen Jones has Lifted the Lid On His Rugby Secrets in a New Autobiography, Which the Western Mail Begins Publishing Extracts From Today. Here We Focus On How Jones Handled Being Told He Was Not First-Choice No 10 During the 2008 Grand Slam Campaign Under Warren Gatland

Warren would be my seventh Wales coach in nearly a decade of playing Test match rugby. I would have to prove myself over again.

When Warren arrived, I didn't have any real form and it wasn't a great time for me. There wasn't much for him to get excited about.

In the previous season, the Scarlets had won six out of six in our Heineken Cup pool matches and reached the se...

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