The Daily Telegraph's Mick Cleary assesses the potential of Harlequins prop and England prospect Joe Marler.
Joe Marler is not one of life’s conventional characters, as 80,000 fans at Twickenham for Harlequins’ top-of-the-table Aviva Premiership clash with Saracens on Tuesday will testify.
The flame-red Mohican sported last season may have become more muted - although you never quite know what a short Christmas break may have prompted the 21 year-old to come up with - but there is no mistaking Marler’s unique presence on a rugby field, the potential apprentice butcher with hands so deft that they can reverse offload on a cut-back run as he did against Wasps a couple of weeks ago to create a try for centre Matt Hopper.
In his own words, Marler is “a little bit odd”. He has his “expression of individuality” haircut, now almost grown out, and his occasional skirmishes with the disciplinary officers following what he calls “the descent of the red mist”.
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