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Joe Marler candidly gives reason for 'slower than expected' recovery

England’s Joe Marler looks on during the captain’s run in Auckland on July 12, 2024, ahead of their rugby Test match against New Zealand on July 13. (Photo by DAVID ROWLAND / AFP)

Joe Marler did not shy away from the truth recently when explaining why his recovery from a broken foot has been “slower than expected”.

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The England and Harlequins loosehead prop sustained the injury in the first Test between England and the All Blacks in July, with his club head coach Danny Wilson expecting him to be out for 12-14 weeks.

“It’s going to be a 12-14 week injury, it’s not a 12-weeker where he can come back in nine,” Wilson said in August.

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      The All Blacks accepted the South African Rugby Union’s apology over Saturday’s haka interference, but they still fired a dig at their hosts.

      “It’s an injury that will take that amount of time. That at the moment hasn’t changed, but I need to get to the bottom of it from today’s assessment because he’s had a bit more assessment today.”

      As a guest on TNT Sport’s coverage of Arsenal’s Premier League clash with Brighton on Saturday alongside club and country teammate Marcus Smith, Marler gave an update on his progress with the new season fast approaching.

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      “Slower than expected,” Marler said when asked by host Jules Breach how the recovery was going.

      “That’s probably because I’ve been non-compliant with the non-weight-bearing. I was supposed to be non-weight-bearing and in a boot for four weeks and I’ve been away for five weeks with my wife and four kids. So when they said you’ve got to be off your feet for four weeks sat on your bum doing nothing, I said ‘can you tell my wife that? Because that’s not happening.’

      “And of course it was festival season, so I had to go to a lot of festivals. So it’s been a bit slower than expected. I’ll be back soon, let’s go with that one.”

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      Harlequins get their Gallagher Premiership season underway against Sale Sharks on September 22 at the Salford Community Stadium, and while the 34-year-old will miss that, he will be targeting a return before Steve Borthwick names his England squad for the Autumn Nations Series.

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      There’s a lot to unpick in your comment but let’s start with the obvious and that is that you clearly don’t know what the budgets are and therefore cannot state that they are equal.

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      Now you mention stadia, sure Ravenhill and the RDS are comparable but Leinster don’t play most of their games at the RDS anymore, do they?

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      So fanbase, sure Leinster have a larger fanbase and that’s a direct result of being, by a considerable distance, the largest urban population on Ireland, aided further by the absence of any top tier football teams that similar cities across other countries have. Once again an inherent advantage over the other provinces.

      The population of Leinster is 2.9 million. The population of Ulster is 2.3 million. The population of the Dublin Urban area is about 1.3 million. If you quote 2 million at me, we can go for an 80 mile walk over the Wicklow mountains, not meet a house and not leave the ‘Greater Dublin Area’. If you were Irish you would know this. The population of Belfast urban area (including Bangor etc) is about .75 million. Not a major difference. Most of the soccer in Ireland is played in Dublin City so not an inherent advantage. A fact you just ‘Made up’ right?


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      Now what does that tell us about budgets when Munster were told to release Snyman last year who just happened to end up at…Leinster!

      Munster were NOT told to release Snyman. They had 4 overseas players and were told to reduce it to 3, as all provinces must. They chose to Keep Jean Kleyne and release Snyman. That was a cock up by Munster but how can you blame Leinster for this? Leinster are allowed no more than 3. When Barrett goes, then they are entitled to bring in Ioane. Munster and other provinces will benefit from this sabbattical template Leinster use. Yet it is now being used to attack Leinster again?


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