Stephen Moore the standard bearer for Australia

It is a list so illustrious, you don’t even have to use their first names.

Kirk, Farr-Jones, Pienaar, Eales, Johnson, Smit, McCaw... Moore?

Stephen Moore stands on the verge of greatness. If he does emerge from the pack to lift the trophy at Twickenham on Saturday, the Australian captain will do so in the same manner in which he exits a collapsed maul; blinking, rather like a mole exiting his burrow.