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Rugby player
Matthew Jones
Birth nameMatthew Jones
Date of birth (1984-04-04) 4 April 1984 (age 40)
Place of birthBridgend, Wales
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight12 st 12 lb (82 kg)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Fly-half
Current team Pontypool RFC
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2004–07
2007
2007–08
2008–10
2010–12
2012-2013
2013-2016
2016-		 Ospreys
Moseley
London Welsh
Worcester
Newport GD
Bristol
Coventry
Pontypool		 47
11

31
33
0		 47
(75)

(122)
(160)
(0)
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2005 Wales 1 (0)

Matthew Jones (born 4 April 1984) is a Welsh international rugby union player. A fly-half, 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 Wales squad summer tour of North America and attained his first full cap against Canada.

On 23 April 2013 Bristol 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 Moseley he moved to London Welsh.

He joined Worcester Warriors in July 2008. In May 2010 Jones joined Newport Gwent Dragons. In January 2012, Jones joined Bristol, and then in 2013 he moved to Coventry R.F.C. Jones returned to Wales in 2016 becoming a player-coach for Pontypool RFC.

References

  1. Jones joins Newport Gwent Dragons
  2. Jones joins Bristol
  3. Woolford, Anthony (19 May 2016). "Former Wales and Ospreys outside-half Matthew Jones appointed player-coach of Pontypool". walesonline.co.uk. Retrieved 2 December 2018.

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