Category Archives: rugby

Rugby World Magazine partners up with ‘One Game at a Time’

Posted on June 5, 2020 by Sam Roberts

I’m exceptionally pleased to let you know that I have joined forces with Rugby World Magazine to produce the podcast series ‘One Game at a Time’. Rugby World Magazine is the best-selling rugby magazine in the world and they have … Continue reading →

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One Game at a Time – Episode 2

Posted on May 26, 2020 by Sam Roberts

I speak to England and Gloucester’s James Simpson-Daniel, in the second episode of ‘One Game at a Time’. It was amazing to hear him talking about taking on Jonah Lomu, Sir Clive Woodward’s strategies and the heartbreak of missing out … Continue reading →

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One Game at a Time – Episode 1

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Sam Roberts

Here’s what I’ve been working on. It’s a podcast/radio programme and you can download it by following the link at the bottom of this page. It’s called ‘One Game at a Time’: a chance for us fans to get inside … Continue reading →

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Taking the stage

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Sam Roberts

Please click on this link before reading below On a sun-kissed South American morning, in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, a man in a baseball cap sits in his garden, against the base of a tree. Like all of us, … Continue reading →

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Nothing is off the table

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Sam Roberts

Read my piece on the plight of English top tier rugby here

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Marler and mirth

Posted on March 8, 2020 by Sam Roberts

The 26th of September 2018 was the date he tried to sort this all out. He would step away from international rugby. He was young enough to still be incredibly useful as an international prop forward, but he’d had enough. … Continue reading →

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Exeter’s Excellence

Posted on February 26, 2020 by Sam Roberts

click here for the article on Rugby Pass You can usually find out a little bit more about your club side during the Six Nations. Shorn of key men, clubs can either step up or wilt. There are a couple … Continue reading →

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The spectral sceptre

Posted on February 4, 2020 by Sam Roberts

Please click this link to read this piece on RugbyPass It was telling that two individual moments of brilliance were all that England could proffer in Paris. Against a defence fatigued by work already done, England’s Jonny May jinked forth … Continue reading →

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Money is a terrible master

Posted on January 18, 2020 by Sam Roberts

Saracens. A bastard child of rugby and business. Born from an ugly coming together. Now shamed, shunned and spat out into the wilderness. It was a partnership that had us all a little bit worried. Rugby with its need to … Continue reading →

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Letting Billy know

Posted on December 11, 2019 by Sam Roberts

RugbyPass article here (please click) Original below Along the London Road in Charlton Kings, just east of Cheltenham, a group of people are sitting around a table in The Langton Pub and Restaurant. Mid-conversation, one of them stops and stoops … Continue reading →

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