Sam Underhill: The Art of the Tackle and on for the Treble?

For The Love Of Rugby

Crowd Network

Sports, Rugby

4.8 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Part-time guitarist and full-time tackle monster Sam Underhill joins the show to preview Bath Rugby’s Challenge Cup Final against Lyon on Friday. Sam takes us inside a Bath dressing room that has gone from rock bottom to front runners in the Premiership across just three years, discusses his England Summer Tour ambitions, and just how he became a tackle machine. 🎟️ Get tickets for both European finals here: https://www.eticketing.co.uk/principalitystadium/Events?preFilter=45&preFilterName=EPCR%20Finals%202025?utm_source=EPCR&utm_campaign=EPCR&utm_medium=webArticle&utm_content=Cardiff%202025 🏦 Save more, earn more—up to 4.22% AER (variable). Interest rates are tiered, with the top rate for balances over £1M. Each tiered rate applies to the portion within that range. New Tide members get these rates free for 6 months; after that, your Tide plan’s rates apply. For full offer T&Cs visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://tide.co/offers/ftlor⁠⁠⁠ 📋 Have your say in our FTLOR survey: https://forms.gle/1MQ32bQwxzVKa7B79 ✍️ Subscribe to Coley's newsletter: https://loveofrugby.substack.com/subscribe 📺 Watch For The Love Of Rugby on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LoveOfRugby 🤑 Win money for your rugby club: https://forms.gle/9PrSEohCYiLB4D9R6 📹 Send us your rugby videos: https://forms.gle/TrB1MB2V2krVXdqd7 💭 Got a question for us? Fill in this form: https://forms.gle/4o1f7VCSFvj5aZb38 💗 Buy a bobble hat: https://crowdnetwork.co.uk/podcasts/for-the-love-of-rugby 🎶 Music courtesy of BMG Production Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:12.2	Hello, I'm Hannah Stipful and I host a podcast called Oceans Life Underwater.
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0:33.6	Why are we doing this?
0:35.0	For the love of the game, mate.
0:36.3	For the love of rugby.
0:37.8	Bath are in a European final.
0:39.8	And who better to speak to than Sam Underhill?
0:42.3	You've got timing and you've got technique and you've got a desire to hurt people, that physical confrontation.
0:46.9	Like if you've got all of those things, then I think it'll be up there.
0:49.2	We'll ask him about the Challenge Cup final, becoming the world's greatest tackler, and his post-Rubby career as a George Ezra impersonator.
0:59.5	I'm Ben Young's, he's Dan Cole.
1:01.9	I'm Sam Underhill.
1:03.1	For the love of European rugby.
1:04.9	Brought to you by Jaku.
1:08.6	Yes, JQ are the official automotive partner of the InvestTech Champions Cup
1:12.7	and the EPCR Challenge Cup.
1:15.9	You can win a new car, the JQ7, in Cardiff at the European Finals this weekend.
1:20.7	That is actually mental that you can win a car, coli.
1:23.0	I love that from Joku.
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