Joe Marler has never been one for half-measures, and his latest opinions on rugby’s “most feared” players were delivered with the same blunt force he once brought to the scrum.
Asked to pick the hardest man of the professional era — blending outright physicality with a streak of on-field nastiness — the former England prop didn’t hesitate to crown Bakkies Botha as the ultimate intimidator.
It was part nostalgia, part confession, and entirely Marler.

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