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Meg Jones: Red Roses captain on skippering England and representing Wales
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Meg Jones: Red Roses captain on skippering England and representing Wales

BBC Sport·https://www.facebook.com/BBCSport/·about 1 month ago
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Asked to pick her favourite rugby memory, Meg Jones side-steps the obvious. England's Rugby World Cup win back in September may be the pinnacle of her professional career, but Jones spools back a few more years to when the stage was smaller, but, for her, the stakes were just as high - a trial for Cardiff Schoolboys Under-12 team. "It was just one of those turning points in your journey," Jones tells BBC Sport. "I was the only girl. I had trialled the year before and not got in. That was the first time I'd ever faced some sort of rejection or maybe things not going my way within the game." Jones wasn't concerned that her gender was counting against her. Instead she saw parental bank balances tipping the selection scales. "It was very much the rich boys who got in," she says. "If your dad was rich, you were probably getting in. My dad was a pipefitter welder from Cardiff, so I was part of a very working-class family.…

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