England rugby star Joe Marler has sensationassociate called for New Zealand’s iconic haka to be BANNED ahead of Saturday’s Autumn Nations series clash.
The prop, who has been sidelined with a foot injury since July, has branded the traditional Maori dance ‘ridiculous’ in a post on social media.
Writing on X, he shelp: “The Haka needs binning. It’s ridiculous.”
Marler, who won’t be take partd in the showdown aacquirest the All Binformages, then inserted: “It’s only any excellent when teams actuassociate front it with some sort of reply. Like the league boys did last week.”
England rugby star Joe Marler has sensationassociate called for New Zealand’s iconic haka to be BANNED ahead of Saturday’s Autumn Nations series clash.
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Under rugby rules, executeers receiving the contest are prohibitden from passing the halfway line.
Yet Marler broke that rule in 2019, with the England star passing the line in the Rugby World Cup semi-final showdown between the two sides.
England were tardyr hit with a fine of £2,000 fine for baccomplishing tournament rules ‘relating to cultural contests’, with referee Nigel Owens calling for Marler to step back.
Marler tardyr telderly The Jonathan Ross show that confusion gived to his decision to overstep the tag.
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He shelp: “The rehire was, Ben [Youngs] drew it up the night before … he got up and he did it on a flipchart and he taged it all out with Xs and Os.
“The rehire I had with it is I see at that board and thought, ‘It’s not to scale.’
“I thought we were unbenevolentt to be sealr than what the picture shelp.
“[I went over the line] which I thought we were all going to do but then I seeed back and they weren’t doing it but I thought, ‘I’ve already promiseted now.'”
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Meanwhile, as Saturday’s clash approaches, England coach Steve Borthwick has denied he’s taking a danger by commenceing Henry Slade.
Slade has only executeed 55 minutes for Exeter Chiefs so far this term, having previously undergone selderlyier sadvisery.
But Borthwick has no worrys about the England star as they see to put New Zealand to the sword.
“Sladey is a reassociate vital executeer for us,” he shelp.
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“He’s an teachd Test suit executeer, now more than ever.
“He’s in amazing condition. He’s grown as a directer wiskinny this team. We’ve spoken a lot about the directership of this team and he’s grown in a number of contrastent areas as well.
“I skinnyk the nature is that when you’ve had the shoulder sadvisery he’s had, he’s been able to be running on his feet.
“He’s as fit as I’ve ever seen him. He’s in amazing condition. He senses in fantastic shape. He’s a executeer who is energised and brimming of energy. He’ll go reassociate well on Saturday.”
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On his call to drop flanker Sam Underhill, he persistd: “I pick the 23 I consent is the right 23.
“So Sam, at the commence of the season he had ankle sadvisery, had two materializeances off the bench and one commence, and in one of those materializeances from the bench he didn’t get too much time becaparticipate there was a sin-bin situation.
“When you have an ankle sadvisery you can’t be on your feet and so much of Sam’s game is that constant toil-rate, that’s one of the fantastic X-factors in his game, that toil-rate that he has, that keenness he has, particularly in defence.”
