Marler called for the All Blacks' tradition to be 'binned'
any extra motivation ahead of their Autumn Nations Series clash at Twickenham on Saturday after saying the “ridiculous” haka “needs binning”.In such a razor-tight match-up, England coaches are unlikely to have been pleased when they saw that Marler, the loosehead prop who is not involved this weekend, lit the blue touch paper on social media by insisting the haka is “only any good when teams actually front it with some sort of reply. Like the league boys did last week.
Marler has left the England squad, although that is understood to have happened on Monday for personal, unrelated reasons. “We put the English words underneath the Maori words so they could tell what it meant. That made a big difference and all of a sudden they really started to buy into it. They started to do it quite well.”
In 1996, Australia started warming up and hitting tackle bags during the haka, largely ignoring the New Zealanders in the other half as they danced. The Aussies were thrashed 43-6. Five years earlier, another Australian – David Campese – had refused to let the haka interrupt his last pre-match kicking practice.
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