Stephen Thomas "Staff" Jones, (born 4 January 1959) is a former
Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...
rugby union international from
Ynysybwl
Ynysybwl ( cy, Ynys-y-bŵl ) is a village in Cwm Clydach in Wales. It is situated in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, roughly north-north-west of Cardiff, north of Pontypridd and south of Merthyr Tydfil, and forms part of the communit ...
Ynysybwl RFC
Ynysybwl Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union team based in Ynysybwl. Ynysybwl RFC plays in the Welsh Rugby Union, Division One East League and is a feeder club for the Cardiff Blues.
Ynysbwl RFC was established in 1880.Pontypridd RFC before making 408 appearances for Pontypool RFC in their glory years in the 1980s, often in partnership with
Steve Jones Steve or Steven Jones may refer to:
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and
Graham Price
Graham Price MBE (born 24 November 1951 in Moascar, Egypt) is a former Welsh rugby union player, who was a member of the famous Pontypool RFC front row known as the "Viet Gwent". He won 41 caps for , and a record 12 for the British and Irish Li ...
to form another formidable front row partnership coached by
Ray Prosser
Thomas Raymond Prosser (2 March 1927 – 22 November 2020) was a Welsh international rugby union prop who played club rugby for Pontypool and was capped 22 times for Wales. Prosser also represented the British Lions in their 1959 tour of A ...
.
Staff Jones scored a try on his debut for Wales against Scotland at Murryfield in 1983, joining other Pontypool players Bobby Windsor, Terry Cobner and Graham Price who also scored tries on their international debuts.
In 1983 he toured New Zealand with the British LionsStaff Jones rugby profile lionsrugby.com and he was also a regular for the Monmouthshire County team. After recovering from a serious knee injury sustained in 1986, he was part of the Welsh Triple Crown winning side in 1988, most famously giving the then newly capped
Jeff Probyn
Jeff Probyn (born 27 April 1956 in Bethnal Green, London) is an English former Rugby Union player.
The Old Albanian, Streatham and Wasps prop was selected in England's squad for the 1987 Rugby World Cup, but Probyn did not make his internatio ...
(a renowned scrummager himself) a scrummaging masterclass at Twickenham in an 11–3 victory.