Brian Moore

Of the seeded teams in the bottom half, only Wales can legitimately claim they have performed close to their best, albeit sporadically

Steve Borthwick’s side lost their winning position against South Africa due to a scrum weakness that can be traced back to 2019 final

Ramaphosa lifted the Webb Ellis Cup alongside captain Siya Kolisi after the Springboks won a record fourth World Cup

The lock’s career at Saracens is in doubt after he was asked to take a 50 per cent pay cut

The polarisation, agenda-pushing and misinformation that is creeping into this issue is not helpful and needs to stop

Loss of funding to union will likely result in non-international players having crucial services cut

Murrayfield visit will be the acid test for Borthwick and his players after an indifferent start to the Six Nations

Proposals are essentially contradictory – an order to apply current laws strictly tempered by referees using discretion to speed up the game

Nothing wrong with legitimate complaints about errors that are made, but they do unfortunately happen, as seen with Quins v Bath chaos

Top 14 outfit crushed Saracens on Saturday through raw size rather than sheer skill – that is not a future that rugby wants to see