| Posted On: February 18, 2012 | By: Sonja |
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Jonny has been injured during Toulon’s game this afternoon with Stade Francais, he has an ice-pack on both his knee and ankle. We will keep you up to date with information on the what injury he has sustained when we know more. Everyone at Wilkofans sends Jonny our support and have our fingers crossed his [...] Share on Facebook |
| Posted On: February 12, 2012 | By: Sonja |
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LEIGH HALFPENNY has revealed the part Jonny Wilkinson played in his emergence as a Welsh goal-kicking hero. English World Cup winner Wilkinson was Halfpenny’s idol when he was growing up and the player he wanted to be most like. The boy from the Swansea suburb of Gorseinon even followed Wilko’s example in practising his kicking [...] Share on Facebook |
| Posted On: February 11, 2012 | By: Sonja |
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Giant prop Eifion Lewis Roberts scored twice for Toulon as they beat Bordeaux Begles 44-7 at the Stade Felix Mayol on Saturday. The 30-year-old, who announced this week that he would re-join former club Sale Sharks, touched down twice within three minutes after coming on as a second-half substitute. Luke Rooney, Sebastien Tillous-Borde and Joe [...] Share on Facebook |
| Posted On: January 30, 2012 | By: Sonja |
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Jonny Wilkinson contributed 25 points to Toulon’s 50-point thumping of strugglers Bayonne but the former England fly-half was anything but happy with a team performance that was less impressive than the scoreline suggested. “It was a difficult match for us at the start,” Wilkinson told Var Matin. “Bayonne are always a physical team. Huget’s red [...] Share on Facebook |
| Posted On: January 28, 2012 | By: Sonja |
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Toulon produced a stirring second-half showing as they romped to a bonus point-clinching 50-10 victory over 14-man Bayonne at the Stade Felix-Mayol. The hosts only led 15-3 at the interval, with fly-half Jonny Wilkinson having outscored opposite number Benjamin Boyet by five penalties to one during a half which saw Bayonne winger Yoann Huget sent [...] Share on Facebook |
| Posted On: January 21, 2012 | By: Sonja |
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Toulon breezed into the quarter-finals with a 50-6 rout of Petrarca Padova in Italy. The big-spending French side took Pool 2 thanks to a seven-try romp, with Benjamin Lapeyre bagging a brace. Laurent Emmanuelli, Fabien Cibray, Alexis Palisson and Gabi Lovobalavu also crossed, while the referee awarded the visitors a penalty try. Jonny kicked 3 [...] Share on Facebook |
| Posted On: January 15, 2012 | By: Sonja |
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Toulon scored two tries in the final two minutes to take maximum points from their Amlin Challenge Cup clash with Lyon. They left it late to secure the bonus point but the victory does keep them in control of Pool 2 with a round of action still to play. Matteus du Bruyn kicked Lyon into [...] Share on Facebook |
| Posted On: January 12, 2012 | By: Sonja |
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England legend Jonny Wilkinson has urged rugby union to show ‘responsibility’ and address the worrying decrease in amateur participation. It was announced in 2011 that the Rugby Football Union would lose more than £1million in public funding from taxpayers and the Lottery after a survey identified a reduction in adults playing the game at grassroots [...] Share on Facebook |
| Posted On: December 23, 2011 | By: Sonja |
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English rugby’s golden boy, Jonny Wilkinson, speaks for the first time about the agonising decision of international retirement, the influences on his career and what the future holds. In the early autumn of 2010, Jonny Wilkinson sat at his home in Southern France and knew something did not feel right. In the company of his [...] Share on Facebook |
| Posted On: December 20, 2011 | By: Sonja |
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Don’t worry, this is not purely another Jonny Wilkinson eulogy. They’ve been done to death, and he’s deserved every last scrap of the veneration. But I just thought I’d mention something that was often lost in the rush for deification last week: Wilkinson has not retired. He has retired from international rugby, which is not [...] Share on Facebook |