Graham Jones - Stand off
Wales RLHeritage No | 250 |
Clubs | Salford Red Devils, Penarth, Cardiff, Old Penarthians |
Regions | Glamorgan |
Honours | Wales RL |
Born in 1932, Graham Jones was a one-club man in rugby league, playing 239 times for Salford and scoring 119 tries after joining them in November 1954. However, he nearly didn't have any kind of rugby career. While on National Service with the RAF in Germany, Jones suffered a serious attack of typhoid and it was thought he would never play again, but he recovered and returned to play for Old Penarthians before joining Penarth in 1953. He also had a brief spell at Cardiff. At his time of turning professional, he was described as potentially the best fly-half in Welsh club rugby. He had appeared in the first Welsh international trial match of the 1954-55 season after playing for Glamorgan County. Jones stayed in the Greater Manchester/Salford area after retiring and made local news in 2022 after falling in a shop and cutting his head and being told it could be 10 hours before an ambulance arrived! At that time, he was living in retirement accommodation in the Urnston area of Manchester.
SEASON | P | W | D | L | TRY | GOALS | DG | PTS | |
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1958-1959 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
TOTAL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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