Writing in the Daily Telegraph Brian Moore says that Gavin Henson and Andy Powell must shoulder much of the blame for their recent off-field incidents.
"I was also aware that a few years earlier I had got into serious trouble in a Nottingham pub when, after the third time a drunk had had a go at me, I, wrongly, punched him and ended up with a conviction for assault. I know how trouble, that you do not start, can happen; I also know the starkly different outcomes that flow from how it is handled.
It may sound hypocritical in the light of this and against the old-school background of rugby drinking to address any words to Messrs Henson and Powell, now called by the Welsh Rugby Union to account for their latest misdemeanours. It is not, because there are important distinctions.
Standards are different today, but then so are the rewards. When you are paid approximately half the national average annual wage for one international, we can demand different standards and if players don’t like it, they don’t have to play."
RSS feed
