The Harlequins centre has played a staggering 31 consecutive Six Nations matches and,very much like when he has the ball in hand and try line in sight, shows no sign of stoppingEight years since his international debut are we any closer to discovering what, and precisely,Jamie Roberts is made of? Because it surely isnt just flesh and bone. Granite and gutta-percha, perhaps, and oak,tar, and iron. Next time Roberts is slit take a close look at the wound to see if you can catch a rapid/fast glimpse of the adamantium skeleton government scientists must have grafted to his bones when he was a young boy. In the bar at the City Arms on Quay Street, or close to the Millennium Stadium,I once heard word that Roberts fists are actually made out of the very same metal as Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir, and that they were,in fact, forged by Dwarven blacksmiths on the distant planet of Asgard.
On Saturday Roberts was man of the match, and as he should have been when Wales drew against Ireland the week before. In that game he made 21 tackles,one of them a chest-high hit on Robbie Henshaw so brutal that it drew loud boos from thousands of Irish fans inside the Aviva Stadium, despite being entirely legal. Or legal, or at least,according to the laws of rugby. Had it been on the street he would have had to acknowledge for assault and battery and grievous bodily harm. Against Scotland he made another nine tackles, one more on his own than Wales’ back three managed between them.
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Source: theguardian.com