Roberts expects life as a human battering ram to leave its mark

Wales centre and qualified doctor knows he will pay the price for his attritional style, writes Daniel Schofield Jamie Roberts is only half-joking when he says that he is ready for arthritis at 40.

Every player’s opinion on the attrition rate in rugby deserves to be heard, especially when he is a seasoned international playing in the most brutal league in the world.

Even more so when he is a doctor of medicine.

Hence the Racing Métro and Wales centre knows full well what he is letting his body in for every time his shuddering run over the gain-line is met by an equally brutal force comin…