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By Matt Hardy Tighthead prop Dan Cole admitted he was surprised by the timing of the international retirement of his fellow front rower Joe Marler. Marler decided to hang up his international boots just days after he caused a furore with his comments describing the New Zealand haka as “ridiculous”. “Did I think he would go last Sunday? No,” said Cole, who had been sharing a room with Marler before the Harlequins No1 left the England camp for “personal reasons” last week. “But we both knew in the end, the older we’re getting, it was coming at some point. “You have an inclination but you have no…