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Among all the reviews, reports and recriminations regarding the trial of the ELVs in the north ahead of next season, former England hooker and current solicitor/columnist Brian Moore's voice has been shouting louder than most. After three or four choice columns on the subject of tight matches despite the ELVs and on southern hemisphere 'bullying', Moore went on the full offensive this week and delivered a withering attack on the ELVs, the trialling process, and the reasoning behind them. It makes for reading every bit as compelling as Moore's performance on the field used to be, but then it would have to, being as it is delivered with the forthright and barely-masked aggression Moore used to carry onto pitches all over the world. Here is Moore's Daily Telegraph column in near-full form for the staunch defenders of the old... [read full story]
