Crisis? What crisis? Heavyweights laugh in face of adversity

Owen Slot and Alex Lowe find out what steps Harlequins and Leicester are taking to put blips behind them
“Yes,” Joe Marler, the Harlequins captain, says.

“We are dogs***.

I am worried.

We think we’re the worst club in the world.

” Then, just to reassure you of the weight of his sarcasm, he giggles.

Are Harlequins in crisis? Are Leicester Tigers? What, actually, is the definition of a crisis? Or is it just the way of the media in drawing extra attention to underperformers and saying: “Look, everyone, that lot over there are having a really bad time.

”The response from the clubs is i…