Harlequins’ Conor O’Shea backs Joe Marler to emerge stronger from ban
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• England prop given second ban but has consulted sports psychologist• ‘He was brutally honest. He knew he had gone over the edge’Conor O’Shea has backed Joe Marler to emerge stronger and wiser from the second of the two bans imposed on the England prop since the end of the Six Nations Championship after the forward revealed this week that he had consulted a sports psychologist.O’Shea has overseen Marler’s progression through the ranks at Harlequins and into the England side and, in his final two weeks as the club’s director of rugby before taking charge of Italy, spoke about the prop’s admiss…





