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All Blacks B team? Marler’s got it right

by
The Rugby Paper Team
22 March 2020

IT WOULD seem that famous old All Blacks, or one at the very least, are acknowledging Joe Marler’s fondness for the B word.
The England prop reacted to the outcry over his fondling of Alun Wyn Jones with a three-word tweet: “Bollocks. Complete bollocks.”
Despite that, the Six Nations disciplinary panel said they had taken mitigating factors such as remorse into account in banning him for ten weeks rather than the minimum 12.
Meanwhile, in New Zealand, former Test centre Grahame Thorne used a Marlerism to emphasise his condemnation of a proposal for the creation of an All B...

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