Brian Moore

1 week 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’.

4 weeks 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.

4 weeks 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.

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?

2 months ago | 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.