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Robert Jones is a former Wales international rugby union player. He formed a notable partnership for Wales with the outside-half Jonathan Davies before the latter's move to rugby league. Jones and Davies were important members of the Welsh team which won the Triple Crown in 1988. One of the most memorable tries of that championship came in the game against Scotland when Jones supplied Davies with a long reverse pass, the latter then kicking ahead and beating his Scottish marker for pace to the tryline.
In 1989 Jones was part of the victorious British and Irish Lions tour to Australia, enjoying some memorable confrontations with the Wallabies' scrum half Nick Farr-Jones. In 1993 he toured New Zealand with the British Lions and at the time played club rugby for Swansea RFC. Jones was succeeded at scrum-half for Wales by Rupert Moon, a move which attracted some controversy. Few would argue that Jones was the more technically accomplished scrum-half. However, he was often playing behind a weak Welsh pack at the time and Moon was brought in because of his more physical attributes rather than superior scrum-half techniques. Since retiring, Jones can often be heard on BBC radio as a rugby pundit.
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