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Marler feels like An 'endangered species'

The 27-year old admitted that the law changes are taking the physicality away from the game.

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The loosehead also revealed that recent law changes have made it difficult to win a penalty at scrum time, and that scrummaging props are becoming a rarity.

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"They’re trying their hardest to put props who like scrummaging out of a job as they put more of an emphasis on props getting the ball out as quickly as possible," said Marler.

"I appreciate that, but if you have an advantage there, you need to be allowed to make the most of that.

"I don’t want it to go to rugby league otherwise I’ll have to go and find a turfing job or something. It’s just a general consensus that no one wants a scrum anymore.

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"I’m not accusing anyone of trying to take us out of the game but they want a more attractive brand of rugby and the majority of people see that without scrums and I think: ‘You b******s'.

"The game is evolving so I have to evolve. I’m still trying to work that one out.

"I can’t do what Mako [Vunipola] does. He is naturally a ball-playing loosehead. I’m more of a mal-coordinated, ball-playing loosehead,"

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