Brian Moore

Senior copywriter | #GrumpyGrammarGuru | TKD black belt | Ex-@chicagotribune | Wrote "the single greatest tweet on the internet" @esquire https://t.co/1FDb2gpcvu

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Rebel league is not for the good of rugby, it is a simple cash grab

2 weeks ago | share.google | Brian Moore

As there are no specifically named investors or broadcasters, and nor are there any details of where the proposed franchises are to be based, what is the reality? Take the less interesting, but crucial, issue of squad numbers. If you assume two-thirds of the 300 players are proposed for the eight male teams, you get squads of 25. There is no way that a team carrying that size of squad could compete over the proposed two sets of eight games per season.
Brian Moore: Rebel league, which lacks any real details, is not for the good of rugby, it is a simple cash grab

2 weeks ago | independent.ie | Brian Moore

Watching the exciting English Premiership semi-final between Bath and Bristol, I realised how much I enjoyed the game. We know the Premiership has its difficulties, but the present product is not one of them. This was a game that was as fast-paced and exciting as you could realistically hope to see. This reaction led me to revisit the news about the creation of R360.
Rebel league is not for the good of rugby, it is a simple cash grab

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Brian Moore

If R360 wants to make claims, it must answer questions properly. When they highlight the fan and player experience, what exactly do they mean and how will they improve it? It is not good enough to criticise without definition or rely on some Field of Dreams-like "If you build it, they will come". How do they propose to fulfil their stated aim for a faster-paced and more exciting game? Which laws, if any, are they going to change?
My retirement warning to Care, Youngs, Cole, Brown and Goode

3 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Brian Moore

Last weekend, rugby said goodbye to Danny Care and Alex Goode. In the coming weeks, Ben Youngs, Dan Cole and Mike Brown will follow. Characters, legends and stalwarts, who between them amassed hundreds of England caps and thousands of elite club appearances. They will be missed, and my sincere hope is that they sail into and through retirement with as few problems as possible. To many, their professional careers mean that they are, or should be, ‘made for life’.
Adding Owen Farrell to Lions squad is fraught with risk

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Brian Moore

I would be more concerned about the back row, given that they routinely record the highest work rates of all players during games. Another specialist blindside flanker would give Farrell more options when it comes to balancing the back row and doing so from a position of choice rather than reaction.
Adding Owen Farrell to Lions squad is fraught with risk

1 month ago | aol.co.uk | Brian Moore

This is a strange time for those players who have been named as part of the 38-man British and Irish Lions squad to tour Australia. You could call it a “phoney war”, but it is from this point on that their thoughts will turn to the battle for starting berths. It is an honour to be selected for any Lions tour, but Test appearances make the experience complete. Every selected player will have this at the back of his mind from now until the first Test squad is named.
Embarrassing Champions Cup results prove rugby has to clean up calendar mess

2 months ago | sports.yahoo.com | Brian Moore

It was a good weekend for the French and Irish teams in last weekend’s Investec Champions Cup and an equally poor one, Northampton Saints aside, for the English and South African sides. It is still precipitous to choose eventual winners but there is little serious money being bet on teams from outside the two first-mentioned countries. What does this say about the quality of club rugby in England, or South Africa for that matter?
Why I have had enough of listening to the RFU rebels

Mar 31, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Brian Moore

Remember this phrase? "Respect the will of the people and get behind your country". Of course that was about Brexit, but it could equally apply to the recent failed vote of no-confidence in the Rugby Football Union's chief executive officer Bill Sweeney. Will the defeated individuals pursue this course of action? It seems not, as there are already rumours of persistent further motions until one succeeds. Here are some facts to counter the months of damaging spin.
It is too soon for Henry Pollock to become the Lions bolter

Mar 24, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Brian Moore

Bentley was first capped by England in 1988. I know that because I was on the same tour, and he then switched codes and signed for Leeds and even played at my home-town team of Halifax for five seasons. In a league career that lasted eight years he played for Great Britain and in 261 games scored 166 tries. When he returned to union via Newcastle, he was a relative unknown to union fans outside England, only because he had been plying his trade in waters unfamiliar to them.
Federal Contractor Minimum Wage Executive Order Revoked

Mar 18, 2025 | dinsmore.com | Brian Moore

Employees of federal contractors are no longer entitled to special federal minimum wage rates for work performed on, or associated with, certain federal contracts. On March 14, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) titled, “Additional Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions”, which repealed approximately twenty memoranda and executive orders issued by former President Joe Biden.