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Joe Marler lands half of Twitter with expert level trolling
By Ian Cameron
Joe Marler is never shy about coming forward, be it on the pitch or on social media.
England ran out 32 - 20 victors over favourites Ireland in their opening game of the Six Nations, physically dominating Joe Schmidt's men in a way that simply hadn't been seen since a bruising encounter with the All Blacks in November 2016.
In the wake of the dramatic underdog victory, the Harlequins prop took to Twitter on an expert fishing expedition.
And he landed more than a few. Marler, who last year retired from international rugby duty, tweeted: "It's coming home @EnglandRugby"
The responses were varied and many, not least from fellow players. Tim Visser helpfully tweeted a picture of the current Six Nations table, which features Scotland on top.
Former Welsh centre Tom Shanklin was clearly amused.
All Black and fellow prop John Afoa chipped in with: "I’m waiting for the....”England beat ireland, ireland beat NZ, so England beat team in the world” chat! but could be in 8 months."
Harlequins teammate Renaldo Bothma suggested that it was in fact Joe's aunt that was coming home.
Joe had the last laugh of course, signing off his haul with the classic and understated fishing rod signal.
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France got a typically french 14 point try last week and they'll need to look for chances for another couple to be comfortable in the win against Argentina.
Fiji could actually be the ones for upset of the week. Typically clunky with players always in and out of their team this would be about the time they put another England beating performance in against Ireland.
SA to be as strong again this week carrying away from their opposition. Probably an underpar performance though.
New Zealand will be determined to actually put the triple figure score on the Azzurri this time. In actual fact a tired and physically beaten AB side has been chosen for this one so expect to see some space and free flowing rugby from both teams but still nothing more than a 30 point gap between them.
Aussie will be thwarted by a draw in their Slam attempt, otherwise another 1 point game either way.
Lets hope Japan is selecting more of its stop starters like France's Tavita Tatafu's cousin, Tavita Tatafu, otherwise it could be the biggest scoreline game of the weekend.
Go to commentsBack then, Jen it was respect and tremendous rivalries even in provincials! Scores didn't seem to matter exactly! 🙃
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