Rugby World

Grand Sam

UNFLAPPABLE. THAT’S the vibe you get off Sam Underhill, it’s suggested to us by one game insider. He just gives off a sense that the big occasions, well, he neither loves nor hates them, he just plays.

So we asked the Bath back-row about that.

He tells us: “It’s a question you get asked a lot, about anything: how did you feel about the game? How did you feel about X? How did you feel about Y? A lot of the work we do is to try to achieve consistency. We do a lot of work with psychologists, for example, to help us prepare for games, help us deal with training and injury and disappointment and success.

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