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9th March 2020
05:37pm GMT
After another spate of fixture postponements, France blowing their Grand Slam bid and two dead-cert red cards - for Mohammed Haouas and Manu Tuilagi - few of us would have expected to have spent so much time discussing Marler's ill-judged attempt at humour.
On the latest episode of Baz & Andrew's House of Rugby, Barry Murphy and Andrew Trimble are joined by former Munster player and international referee John Lacey and there is a lot to get stuck into. The gang delve into all the weekend's action and Lacey talks about a moment when he had to defend Marler at a disciplinary hearing in 2010:
"I know Joe Marler a long time. I actually defended him in a citing, in 2010 at the Under 20 World Cup. I did the opening game and he was incorrectly cited for a head-butt, which he didn’t do. "I was asked to go to the hearing, which was quite unusual for a ref to be brought into a hearing. But because it was a tournament, and we didn’t know each other and obviously the prosecution asked me did he do it and I said, ‘No’. And they kept probing me and I stuck to my guns, and he, quite rightly, the citing was cleared. Myself and Joe, ever since… well, he appreciated it."Also covered on the show was:
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