Brian Moore continues to rejoice at the demise of the ELVs in his column for The Daily Telegraph.
"All but two substantive law changes have been sent to the abyss. From conception to abortion, the law-change experiment has been a ghoulish farce which has harmed the image of rugby. That it caused mirth from other sports is not as important as the fact that it caused active hatred between genuine supporters of the game. This sort of destabilising and divisive exercise must never happen again.
"Any law variations attempted in the future should have strict criteria for their introduction, framing, trialling and evaluation.
"The International Rugby Board's internal group with the nebulous brief to "improve the game" should be disbanded or given stricter guidelines. At present, and similar to the Commission for Racial Equality, they have to find problems in order to exist; with the Experimental Law Variations they did just that."
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