#4. Cheeky Joe Marler
“Joe Marler last weekend actually told me to stop shagging my brothers,” revealed Sale Sharks Robert du Preez when asked by Rugby Pass what might have been the funniest sledging he had heard while on the pitch during his time playing in the English top flight.
“He has always got good one-liners and I didn’t have a comeback. Obviously, we were a bit under the pump, which was unusual, so I didn’t really have much to go back to. Although I must say categorically I do not shag my brothers,”
Joe Marler facts:
- Marler started his career at Haywards Heath RFC in Sussex where he played in the same side as fellow England international Billy Twelvetrees
- After joining the Quins academy in 2008, the prop spent some time on loan to Esher and Worthing
- He’s been nicknamed Croissant. In his own words, it’s because: “The boys think I have a nose that looks like a French pastry.”
- Marler was captain for England at U18s level and represented the U20 squad throughout the Junior World Championship in summer 2009
- He is also one of the hosts of The Joe Marler Show podcast with Tom Fordyce
#5. Brutal O’Mahony
From his legendary outburst at England prop Kyle Sinckler to his more recent verbal assasination of All Blacks captain Sam Cane, the Ireland flanker is one of the games premier sh**talkers.
During Ireland’s 2022 summer tour of New Zealand, he was heard saying to Cane: “Who do you think you are? You’re a shit Richie McCaw pal.”
#6. Nigel Owens at his best
“I’m straighter than that one”
Nigel Owens is openly gay and campaigns for bullying, but that does mean he’s above being self-deprecating. During a dodgy Harlequins line-out he told the hooker, in a roundabout way, he best get his throws together.
Nigel Owens facts:
- Owens started refereeing in 1987, after his sports teacher John Beynon suggested he take up refereeing after a school game
- Scarlets and Wales U20 centre Ioan Nicholas is the cousin of the top referee
- The Welshman supports National League side Wrexham
- He currently holds the world record for the most test matches refereed
- n May 2007, Owens publicly came out as gay in an interview with Wales on Sunday