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JPR Williams RIP

Darty Valiant
Darty Valiant Posts: 618
in Other Football and Sports
RIP
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  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,348
    RIP Boyo.  Another sporting legend gone.
  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 1,620
    Arguably the best there's ever been. Certainly the greatest London Welsh player of all time. 

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/67912287


  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,560
    Dr JPR Williams, never a great fan of Rugby, but he was one of my sporting heroes. Thanks for the memory
  • HardyAddick
    HardyAddick Posts: 1,636
    Born in Bridgend where he started his career. A legend round here. 
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,841
    Part of the greatest Wales side ever and a superb Lion. Also involved in the 'greatest try' of course.

    RIP JPR
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,981
    RIP
  • philcafc
    philcafc Posts: 3,883
    One of Wales greatest players. RIP.
  • NornIrishAddick
    NornIrishAddick Posts: 9,623
    An iconic player, with wonderful skills, we may never see his like again.

    RIP.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Legend is an overused word in sport but JPR, both for Wales and the British Lions, truly was.  

    Wouldn't get away with this tackle these days:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw1nhfVohfs

    Talented tennis player too in his youth.

    RIP JPR
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,775
    Having played a lot of Rugby in the 60s and 70s I can say that JPR was a superb player and one of my heroes. RIP you warrior. 
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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,757
    RIP JPR
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,615
    He was once a guest speaker at an Annual Conference I attended. Spoke really well & great anecdotes of the Lions tour in the 70's.

    RIP
  • dicktracey
    dicktracey Posts: 318
    Greatest no.15 of the amateur era ... stylish and humble.  RIP.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,474
    Tough and absolutely fearless……one who you would want in the trenches any day of the week.
    Always knew he was on the pitch as he was never far away from being involved in the action.
    Yes……something of a one off and humble as they come.
    RIP……JPR……RIP
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,704
    RIP JPR
    The greatest Full Back we've ever seen.


  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,234
    RIP
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,704
    JPR at the start and finish of one of the memorable tries by the greatest Barbarians team in the greatest Rugby Union match of all time.
    51 years ago and always thrilling to see highlights of this game.


  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,618
    Genuinely a rugby legend. RIP

  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,142
    RIP JPR
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,704
    SoundAsa£ said:
    Tough and absolutely fearless……one who you would want in the trenches any day of the week.
    Always knew he was on the pitch as he was never far away from being involved in the action.
    Yes……something of a one off and humble as they come.
    RIP……JPR……RIP
    They broke the mould


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  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,498
    edited January 2024
    Sad to hear this.

    His daughter Annie was my physio while I was recovering from injury some years ago. A real chip off the old block....at one point she was in the world top 10 of women triathletes and also played hockey for Wales. She said her Dad only suffered one nasty injury whilst on tour to NZ with The British Lions and remained fit after playing (unlike a lot of ex-top sports stars). Being a surgeon, he would routinely stitch his own cuts pitch-side or at half-time. Can you imagine that now? 
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,993
    Very sad, a wonderful player to watch RIP
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    RIP. A great.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,593
    RIP 
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,588
    First rugby players name I ever knew.
    Absolute legend.
    RIP ♥️
  • msomerton
    msomerton Posts: 2,969
    Part of , the most important part of the finest Rugby team to come from the five nations. Wales of the early 70's played some beautiful rugby. They made the game exciting. As an England supporter
    Envied the Welsh that team.
    RIP  JPR Williams.
  • Yorkshireaddick
    Yorkshireaddick Posts: 511
    It’s never easy to see your childhood idols die
    RIP JPR
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    a real Corinthian, junior tennis champion, medical doctor, mountaineer,  first Wales cap at 19, a member of three terrific teams, London Welsh, under John Dawes one of the most innovative and successful amateur clubs ever, the all conquering Wales of the 1970s and the first competitive British and Irish Lions sides for decades which was made up mostly of the powerful Welsh XV 

    another one who seemed beyond age and mere mortality, always think of him as a very hard but fair young Rugby master .. too young to go at my age, 74 .. R I P  J P R
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,841
    PeanutsMolloy said:
    JPR at the start and finish of one of the memorable tries by the greatest Barbarians team in the greatest Rugby Union match of all time.
    51 years ago and always thrilling to see highlights of this game.



    Brilliant try by the great man.

    Also, I had forgot just how good David Duckham was, who we sadly lost last year.
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,899
    The best rugby union full back ever ..he had everything as a player ..so sad to see him leave us RIP 

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