Stephen Michael Jones (born 8 December 1977) is a Welsh rugby union coach and former player who played primarily at fly-half.

[3] In February 2013, Jones announced that he would retire from playing a year early, at the end of the 2012–13 season, and move into coaching with Wasps.

In the championship decider against Ireland at the Millennium Stadium, he scored another 16 points and steered Wales to their first Grand Slam for 27 years.

[citation needed] In October 2006 head coach Gareth Jenkins named Jones as captain to lead Wales through to the 2007 World Cup.

He has the respect and regard of his players, leadership qualities that are evident for all to see and the talent and ability to lead from the front at game time".

An improvement to the previous year's competition he proved to be the in-form player, cementing his place as the first-choice number 10 for Wales.

Jones almost prevented Ireland from winning the Grand Slam in the last minute of the final game of the tournament, but his 50-yard penalty kick fell short.

He played his 103rd Test against France in the semi-final which Wales lost, coming off the bench to replace James Hook in the 45th minute.

With four fly-halves in the squad, Jones was involved in just two of the tour matches, starting against the New Zealand Māori and replacing Jonny Wilkinson against Wellington.

Woodward's decision to select Wilkinson ahead of Jones was questioned by the media, many of whom doubted whether the English fly-half should even have been picked for the tour, having only recently recovered from a serious shoulder injury.