{"id":478,"date":"2015-12-03T14:36:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T14:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/?p=478"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:14:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:14:30","slug":"wales-star-reflects-on-memorable-rugby-world-cup-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/2015\/12\/03\/wales-star-reflects-on-memorable-rugby-world-cup-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Roberts reflects on \u201cmemorable\u201d Rugby World Cup campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"image pull-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2015\/12\/25894_600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-481\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2015\/12\/25894_600-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Jamie Roberts\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2015\/12\/25894_600-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2015\/12\/25894_600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p class=\"lead\">Although Wales\u2019 World Cup run ultimately ended in the quarter finals, Cardiff University alumni Jamie Roberts (MBBCh 2013) took home some precious memories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe England match has to be the highlight. Wins against Uruguay and Fiji were great but to beat England at their home World Cup was special and a day the guys will remember for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old praised a Wales side that \u201cplayed their hearts out\u201d despite being hit by injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought both Dan Biggar and Gareth Davies had great tournaments. Up front Alun Wyn Jones was his usual brilliant self, as was Sam Warburton,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But the 74 cap centre acknowledged that there are \u201calways lessons in Test rugby\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou learn the hard way at the top level and our inability to cross against Australia was a tough lesson. Also, we defended admirably against the Boks for 75 minutes and then switched off for a second.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLittle things have so much implication in tight matches and credit to South Africa for making the right play at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more about our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/our-alumni\/prominent-alumni\">prominent alumni<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although Wales\u2019 World Cup run ultimately ended in the quarter finals, Cardiff University alumni Jamie Roberts (MBBCh 2013) took home some precious memories.","protected":false},"author":883,"featured_media":484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/883"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}