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Watch: Joe Marler converts his 'worldie' try versus the Barbarians

(Image credit: Harlequins TV)

Joe Marler scored what the Barbarians described as a worldie of a try for Harlequins on Thursday, just four days after playing an immense part for the Baa-Baas in their 35-31 win over the All Blacks XV at Tottenham. After representing the famed invitational club last Sunday, the England loosehead swapped sides and he came off the Quins bench to provide a captivating contribution at The Stoop.

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Rather than playing just a single game versus the ABs XV, the Barbarians have opted to provide filler matches for a trio of Gallagher Premiership clubs who were left short of fixtures this month due to Wasps and Worcester financially collapsing just a few rounds into this season’s league.

Games against Harlequins, Bath and Northampton have been lined up and the opener on this English club tour was incredibly lively, Quins winning 73-28 against a Baa-Baas XV that included Mike Brown. The ex-England full-back was on the scoresheet in the first half against his former club, but it was the converted try scored in the 78th minute by Marler that received the loudest cheer of the night.

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The Barbarians had been attacking when the ball was spilled outside the Harlequins 22 and it was quickly booted forward along the ground. Cadan Murley, who had been with the England squad earlier this week, won the foot race and he kicked it on with the Baa-Baas 22 approaching.

The winger picked up when he next caught up with the bobbling ball inside the 22 and after he stumbled to the ground, he played on offload to the supporting Archie White whose sweet left-to-right pass was gobbled up by sprinting Marler after he had raced up the field from where the turnover in possession had originally happened.

Marler celebrated gleefully, fully enjoying his unopposed run to the line, and after dotting down, the leggings-clad forward booted the ball into the air in jubilation. Then, once he caught his breath, he nonchalantly drop-kicked the conversion between the uprights to make it a seven-point try.

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“That might be the most popular score of the night,” enthused the Harlequins TV commentator. “Ten tries for Quins, one for that man. The best kick of Caden Murley’s career and maybe the best finish of Joe Marler’s… Guess who is going to kick it [the conversion]? Seven points for Marler!”

The irony of seeing Marler score for Harlequins wasn’t lost on the Barbarians just days after the prop had been at the heart of the Baa-Baas’ success against the AB XV. “Dagger meet heart,” they tweeted. “Joe Marler, aka the ultimate Baa-Baas player, just finished a worldie AGAINST us before slotting the conversion himself for Harlequins. It’s better to have loved and lost than never loved at all I guess?”

Marler wasn’t the only recent Barbarians player to score against the invitational team as Joe Marchant, another currently out-of-favour England player, had also played for them last weekend and he too touched down for Harlequins.

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JW 1 hour ago
'They smelt it': Scott Robertson says Italy sensed All Blacks' vulnerability

Even the 20/30 cappers did too I reckon.


IDK, I think Jordan has a limited life span in this side unless he can develop more to his game. Like you go on to mention, I think theyres more important things to worry about than the effectiveness of someone's extra strings, or secondary components to their game.


Bash backs are Fosters thing, and to a large part they've made it work. Theyre now one of the best teams in the world.


They boy's trucked it up a bit against Italy in the redzone, and against France, wasn't that effective without the right players probably.


Try and take a look at it this way. Dissapointed Havili and Blackadder were in the side? Havili despite clearly shown that he can't do what the team needs at 12 was kept on for the RWC. Back goes down and he brings in Blackadder who doesn't play. Refuses to drop Christie when he should and look who starts this season. Beauden Barret not playing well enough to keep his 10 jersey but we gotta keep him in the side. Weve only got one 8, we stuff developing another I'll just play Ardie every game.


This years team wasn't burdened overly with injuries but they were in every position Razor might have wanted to try and development, severely limiting options. I'm not defending Razor as there was also plenty of other opportunity to make up for it and he was a little gunshy, but I'm also not going to overly criticise him because he chose cohesion over a black slate.

How long are we going to keep blaming All Black failings on Ian Foster.

I think more and more people are on board with it being time to try alternatives, but then again, how would they have reacted to a loss against Italy? 😉

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