{"id":515170,"date":"2026-04-06T02:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515170\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T02:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:31:09","slug":"joe-marler-explains-why-he-hated-one-england-teammate-page-3-of-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515170\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Marler explains why he &#8216;hated&#8217; one England teammate &#8211; Page 3 of 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>#3. Sir Clive Woodward<\/p>\n<p>Woodward tore apart Eddie Jones\u2019 side during a webinar, slamming Marler and fellow prop Dan Cole for their behaviour in a press conference prior to the loss against South Africa back in November. This wasn\u2019t the first time the 2003 World Cup-winning coach called out the prop. <\/p>\n<p>After reading an article on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/news\/8-months-on-clive-woodward-is-still-seething-about-some-embarrassing-england-world-cup-final-preparations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Rugby Pass website<\/a>\u00a0highlighting Woodward\u2019s comments, he tweeted him directly, saying: \u201cChange the record Sir Clive \u2013 you should be grateful you can \u2018milk the cow\u2019 for another 3 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>#4. Israel Folau<\/p>\n<p>Over 1,000 days since Folau\u00a0last played a professional match of rugby union,\u00a0Marler\u2019s old Twitter sparring partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbydump.com\/news\/watch-folau-scores-twice-on-return-to-rugby-union-in-japan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made his return to the sport over the weekend.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruck.co.uk\/list-5-players-who-can-swap-nations-immediately-including-former-england-star\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The loose-head prop takes any chance he can to call out the former Wallabies fullback, <\/a>who could soon represent Tonga, for his homophobic views.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of tweets sent directly to Folau, Marler attached pictures and GIFs of men kissing, in a display of defiant humour which was praised by fellow players and LGBTQ fans alike.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruck.co.uk\/best-scrummager-of-all-time-joe-marler-picks-his-dream-team\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marler later named Folau in his dream team<\/a> in a tongue-in-cheek fashion. <\/p>\n<p>On selecting Folau as his fullback, Marler commented, \u201cOn the night out, after we had played our match on the Saturday, I\u2019d take him out in Brighton to The Blue Oyster\u2026 a couple of clubs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/joemarler\/status\/1115974647458217984\n<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUES ON PAGE\u00a0FOUR<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"#3. Sir Clive Woodward Woodward tore apart Eddie Jones\u2019 side during a webinar, slamming Marler and fellow prop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-515170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}