Matthew Jones (born 4 April 1984) is a Welsh international

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player. A

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, he played for the Ospreys and the Wales Under-21 team, figuring in the Grand Slam winning side. In 2005 he was part of the senior

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squad summer tour of North America and attained his first full cap against

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. On 23 April 2013

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Confirmed that Matthew Jones as well as others players would be released at the end of the 2012–13 season. Jones suffered a knee injury in August 2006. After a brief spell at

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he moved to

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. He joined

Worcester Warriors Worcester Warriors Rugby Football Club is a professional rugby union club, based in Worcester, England, that is currently in administration and which has been suspended and will be relegated from Premiership Rugby, the top division of domestic ...

in July 2008. In May 2010 Jones joined Newport Gwent Dragons. In January 2012, Jones joined

, and then in 2013 he moved to Coventry R.F.C. Jones returned to Wales in 2016 becoming a player-coach for

Pontypool RFC Pontypool Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union team based in the town of Pontypool, which plays in the WRU Championship (known as the SWALEC Championship for sponsorship purposes). Due to the regionalisation of Welsh rugby in 2003, Pontyp ...

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