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For The Love Of Rugby

The Year of the Hybrid: Inside Rugby’s Tactical Revolution

For The Love Of Rugby

Crowd Network

Sports, Rugby

4.8963 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Ben Youngs and Dan Cole are joined by analyst, author and general rugby nerd, Sam Larner to discuss the tactical revolutions we might see in 2026. 🎟️ For The Love Of Rugby LIVE Tour 2026 Tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/for-the-love-of-rugby-tickets/artist/5645678 🩸 Use code LOVEOFRUGBY to get 20% off your first Thriva blood test: http://thriva.co/ 📋 Fill out the FTLOR listener survey: https://forms.gle/rPGCtcPe7NpnBgfh6 ✍️ Subscribe to Coley's newsletter: https://loveofrugby.substack.com/subscribe 🤑 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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0:00.0

I'm going to tell you exactly what you need to do.

0:02.0

Dominate your finances.

0:04.0

Sunday morning, listening to questionable financial advice from the Fintock Bros on his social feed.

0:11.0

Drowning in green.

0:13.0

Scale, scale, scale, scale, scale.

0:15.0

This is the moment Isaac chose to search Barclay's life skills,

0:18.0

get some better money intel and save up for that new skateboard.

0:22.4

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0:25.4

Search Barclay's life skills.

0:27.5

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0:30.1

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0:31.3

If you're willing to pay someone $25 million a year, it turns out you can get people who are quite genetically abnormal.

0:57.0

Well, I'm not just saying this because we're sat quite close, but I think forward to the reason why it would be the best it's ever been. France played the worst game they've played against England. Scotland played the worst game they've ever played against England. New Zealand played the worst game they've played against England. It's like, this is a trend now. We seem to play badly. But are England actually making them play left-handed and making them play badly and getting them into the game that England wants to play.

1:05.4

And I'll be honest, I like trying to move the ball. I want to play rugby and I probably got tarnished of being this guy that didn't. I did.

1:18.4

On today's show, we've got a right treat for you. I love stats. I love coaching. I love trends in the game. And we have a man today that is at the forefront of all that.

1:29.7

That's right, Collie. Trends, data, what's going on? We thought we'd give the THBs a real special show. They can pig out, listen to it, nerd out, learn about the game as we turn our eyes towards 2026. That's right. Please welcome to the show, author and rugby nerd, Sam Lana.

1:39.3

Thanks for coming along, mate. Like, say this is an episode where a lot of people have been

1:42.9

always interested in these sort of insights, to be fair. Absolutely, yeah. It's definitely a growing area of the game,

1:49.2

I think. And you've written a whole book on it as well. I have done that, yes. How long did that

1:53.3

take, by the way? Well, that took about 18 months, I think, but I had the idea in 2019,

2:00.6

but no one else thought it was a good idea.

2:02.5

But a couple of years ago, it kind of changed around, I think.

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