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is ronan o gara fucked ?

5 Comments Posted by on November 28, 2009

Updated photo from RWC 2011.

People are finding this blog every now and again by searching for

“why do people hate ronan o’gara”,
“ronan o’gara drunk”,
“ronan o’gara wife / wedding”,
“ronan o’gara rides your wife”,
“brian o’driscoll ronan o’gara wife”,
“ronan o’gara moustache” (wtf)

Somebody in Australia looked to see if “ronan o’gara is dead”.

It does seem from todays match that he is replacable. I personally think it was a big problem that Eddie O’Sullivan made almost no changes to the side the he inherited from Warren Gatland. This and the fact that there was no suitable replacement for a long time made O’Gara the choice as out half. I have seen O’failing pressure and excelling with a 40 point lead. He is afraid of tackling and of being tackled resulting in the ball never making it far down the line. Nobody except the New Zealand press points out his massive flaws.


Despite Sexton’s flawless, nerveless display against Fiji on his international debut, all the smart money was on Ireland’s most capped fly-half and record points scorer returning to the starting 15, with Sexton looking likely to come in at the opening of the 2010 Six Nations campaign against Italy in Dublin in February.

To be fair, Kidney admitted, following Sexton’s impressive performance against the Fijians, that it was going to be close call.

But O’Gara has been demoted for the first time since he and David Humphreys were competing for the number 10 shirt several years ago.

Sexton, at 24, three years older than O’Gara when the Munsterman made his debut against Scotland in 2000, impressed me right from kick-off at the RDS.

He caught the Fijian starting kick and, rather than just boot the ball back down the park, had a quick look and set off at considerable pace, taking the Fijian defence totally by surprise. Wow!

O’Gara now has a battle on his hands for the first time since Eddie O’Sullivan made it clear to David Humphreys that the Ulster maestro was always going to be playing second fiddle, but his demise may be some way off.

Sexton has to step up again this Saturday and will find himself with much less room and time against a side that, while palpably battle-fatigued following the Lions series, the Tri-Nations and the current tour, will dig deep to deny Ireland a calendar year’s rugby without loss.

I have it on good authority that Gatlands wife was his business manager but she didnt get on well with the suits in the IRFU.

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5 Responses to is ronan o gara fucked ?

  1. atoast2toast November 28, 2009 at 10:56 pm

    This is the story coming out of Old Wesley (ex-international apparently)

    The team are pissed off with O’Sullivan en masse for being too
    conservative and there is dissention in the ranks about players not
    being given time on the pitch. Apparently they have been for while

    O’Gara & Stringer have not spoken “properly” for a few yrs..

    O’Driscoll is running the show out there now and insisted that Reddan be
    started and should have been in the team for the past 12 months

    O’Gara was caught in bed with his wifes sister and not for the first
    time

    She was taking him to the cleaners but JP McManus has stepped in to stop
    it going public and is looking after her financially – no mention of
    Rog’s gambling debts

    O’Sullivan hates Geordan Murphy period and was forced to bring him

    Trimble is in ahead of GM because of Ulster representation with Best out

    Hickie had to declare his retirement pre world cup due to some venture
    post world cup”

    and

    Drico had a go at the Munster forwards, Stringer and Hickie in the dressing
    room after the match Saturday.

    This was after he did his usual interviews and after Paulie had tried to
    rally the troops and it didn’t go down well, particularly his scathing
    attack on Hickie.

    Leinster Munster divide is evident

    Drico insisted on redden being picked ahead of Eddies choice Boss – what
    are they paying Eddie to do if BOD if picking the team?

    Hickie and Quinlan not speaking – Quinlans fiancé is an ex of Hickies

    Wallace is on painkillers to play but has told EOS he’s not right and can’t
    sidestep – Eddie doesn’t want to know

    Leamy was diagnosed by Liam Hennessy as a borderline diabetic but Eddie
    won’t let him either take medicine as you have to declare before the world
    cup or rest.

    O Gara is in charge of the dress code when they’re going out but lost the
    plot on Sunday night when some players slagged him over the Newbridge
    cufflinks he had given to the squad. (They all have to donate a present to
    the squad). That ended up with O gara refusing to go out and going back to
    the hotel.

    Mal and Donnacha had a blazing row in training yesterday – not the usual
    training dustup. Quinlan and Easterby also had a few pops at each other.

    Before the Georgia game the 2nd 15 beat the starting 15, 32-20 in a 40
    minute game

    O Donovan not happy as EOS has got extra 4 years but he hasn’t”

    I hope a good performance beating the French tonight will quieten down the rumour mill.

    http://84.51.233.73/forums/showthread.php?t=828

    Irish rugby hero Ronan O’Gara is among a number of investors now facing court action over alleged attempts to escape from property deals made at the peak of the boom.

    He was one of several investors against whom Dublin’s Spencer Dock Development Company has taken legal proceedings seeking court orders directing them to complete pre-recession deals for apartments.

    Dublin’s Spencer Dock Development has taken legal proceedings in a bid to get the Munster player and other buyers to close on sales deals made at the peak of the boom.

    Gemma O’Farrell, counsel for Spencer Dock Developments, yesterday told County Registrar Susan Ryan at Dublin Circuit Court that Mr O’Gara, who is being sued for “specific performance” of a property deal, was now attempting to close the sale in the docklands development.

    The judgment is being sought against the Ireland fly-half and several other defendants for failing to have entered an appearance in the case. Mr O’Gara did not appear at the court yesterday and was not represented. “The defendant is attempting to close the sale of the property,” Ms O’Farrell told Ms Ryan.

    It is the second time this year that Ms O’Gara has been pushed into the public eye over financial matters.

    In August, he was ordered to pay almost €2,000 to the management company of a Greystones housing and apartment development and was named in the latest edition of debt monitor ‘Stubbs Gazette’. The gazette showed Charlesland Wood Management Company registered two judgments against Mr O’Gara in the High Court on August 11. One judgment was for €1,290, while another was for €457.

    belfast telegraph via thepropertypin.com

  2. feensham November 29, 2009 at 11:58 pm

    In the post match press conference,kidney said we would have won by more if he had played rog and that we have one up and coming out half and one world class out half.the fella is a genious!

    • atoast2toast November 30, 2009 at 11:32 am

      well he would say that would’nt he – at least he tried something different and wasnt afraid to bench the goon. I think rog would have put as many over the posts as sexton missed and he would have missed as many as sexton scored.

      The genie that is out of the bottle.

  3. mr havisham November 30, 2009 at 6:29 pm

    I wonder would the buzz have been the same if the Toast was around during the Ward/Campbell era.
    “Right on the meet!”

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