CONFIRMED: England prop Marler signs 4 year deal with 'childhood' club
England prop Joe Marler has extended his stay with Premiership club Harlequins until 2021.
Marler's previous deal was due to expire in 2018, but the Harlequins academy graduate has opted to prolong his stay at The Stoop.
The 27-year-old, part of an England team that won back-to-back Six Nations titles, spoke of his delight at the new deal.
Speaking to the club's official website, he said: "Re-signing for my childhood club has made me very happy.
"John Kingston has recruited strongly over the summer and he is starting to really mark his identity with this exciting group of players.
"I strongly believe we have a squad capable of going places and I'm really excited for the new season."
Marler – who toured with the British and Irish Lions to New Zealand – has scored seven tries in 152 club appearances and has won the Premiership and Amlin Challenge Cup during his time with Quins.
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I like Andy’s critical approach to all hot issues especially when it comes to the rugby big “bosses”. However, sorry Andy, I don’t support your “we shouldn’t be questioning the integrity of Karl Dickson or any other official”. May I ask why? They do have a lot of responsibility, but they are people like us with all their sins and weaknesses. We have to respect their decision during the games, but why they became untouchable afterwards and people cannot even criticize them and the ones, who does express their concerns, got punished for publicly analyzing their mistakes and asking questions. If they believe they did right, there shouldn’t be a problem for any of the refs to answer these “questions” publicly. I don’t really remember such cases. However, I do remember how Craig Joubert shown his running skills in 2015 or Pascal Gauzere shined in Cardiff in 2021. I do believe that Rassie, as anybody else, had a full right to share his vision of Nic Berry’s performance the same year. I do not support the hate in any form especially in public one, but creating the cast of untouchable refs and rugby bosses is not for me. As for Karl, he had all means to question his appointment for the game and since I don’t now whether he did it, blaming just RFU wouldn’t be quite correct at this moment. I love the game of rugby and almost every time I watch it I don’t support any team, I just wanna see the good game and fair referring. Sorry, Karl. last Saturday you got my Craig Joubert”s award of the round. It is up to Karl to prove that I am wrong, not to Andy or RFU’s corporate bla-bla-bla. Something like that…
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