Brian Moore
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4 days ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Brian Moore
It should be noted that these proposals are backed by CVC Capital Partners, the private equity group that owns 27 per cent of the Premiership. You might suspect that CVC is the driving force behind all this, but every club owner has backed the initiative, and they are the ones who are forking out to cover current losses. It is easy to criticise if you are not on the hook financially. RFU prepared to threaten stability of gameThere are genuine concerns about whether this system will succeed.
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1 week ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Brian Moore
Has this worked? No, it has not. The same complaints are still ringing loudly at lower levels as they were in the two decades before the RFU made the revised payment regulations. If those changes had worked, I would not still be hearing these objections. The higher echelons of the RFU do not want to revisit this subject but dismissing it is a mistake. Each time a club finds a sugar-daddy investor to pay players it causes resentment because rivals have to struggle to just stay still.
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2 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Brian Moore
I am afraid that this all takes us back to the thorny subject of the structure of the season, complicated by the fact that the South Africans are playing while their international side are on a different hemisphere's timetable. It is less than ideal that the European and domestic league and cup tournaments are strung out across the season and shoehorned around the autumn international tournament and Six Nations competition.
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1 month ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Brian Moore
England's scrummaging has improved and that includes the crucial point of maintaining their performance when their front five are substituted. Fin Baxter and Joe Heyes deserve as much credit as the starting props, Ellis Genge and Will Stuart. The latter pair will now almost certainly be on the plane to Australia this summer. Another conspicuous success over the contests has been their back row.
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1 month ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Brian Moore
I understand his anger at losing Dupont but, taking into account Galthié's comments about the officiating and his opinion that the injury was caused by an action he labelled "reprehensible", he did, in fact, try to influence the refereeing, even though he specifically claimed he was not doing so. Simon Easterby, the Ireland stand-in head coach dismissed the event as a "rugby incident" and neither view was impartial.
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