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Why do you hate him so much? He is neither a jockey or a midget or likes to cut his cloth to measure his cake.
it started when i heard people shouting “chicken” at him in landsdowne road. It got worse when I was in NZ during the lions and they were all laughing at him.
Ronan is smiling.
O Gara, is a very professional, metronomic, yet limited player.
A lovely flat skip pass (only off his left side) coupled with a poor dummy pass that is slower than a fax.
No step off either foot, never had any real gas and strangely and the most cardinal weakness in his game, he can never spot the gap in a line. He leaves his centers to do that for him.
Good tactical kicker, as well as popping kicks out to big wingers, the only thing that has been developed in his game in ten years.
He is a very good points kicker also his record speaks for that.
But a world class player he is not. A good player he is not. A lucky player he is.
Armed with his Irish record points tally that will stand never to be broken, when people talk fifty years down the line, with welled eyes about O Gara in the same breath as J Kyle. It is frightening to consider that they will and he will be remembered more than O Driscoll, B Mullen, S Geoghan, one R Keyes (nice one!), halvey, Galway, D Mc Bride, Slattery etc etc
Because he will hold a kicking record!
Not a rugby one.
Kicking is being rooted out of the game now, by TV, southern hemisphere unions (underage systems in NZ are done on weight not age. You don’t play with the under 12′s or 14′s, you play with the under 80kg’s, under 90kg’s) and money. People want to see speed, ball in hand and impacts. They don’t want kicking.
On O Gara’s points record, he has only got into those kicking positions with the quality of an Irish pack that has been there or there about in the top 5 packs in the world for the last 15 years.
Not something to shout about, there are only 7 good packs at any one time in the world.
To agree with Toast, he is something of a joke in the eyes of Southern Hemisphere commentators, and has done well for himself to have amassed so many caps with such a dearth of talent, he wouldn’t have lasted a quarter of the time there, and they (southern hemi) would find it insulting to their leagues if he lasted much longer.
His lengthy career, speaks volumes for our lack of irish talent, than his hard work and professionalism. Words used to describe a civil servant, clock watching before having that same clock presented to him on his retirement.
I think the clock is the 100 caps. Which drives me fuckin’ mad!
If he doesn’t get the opportunity to play, its a moot point, but if he does then produce a barnstorming performance to oust Mr Sexy, then he should be left there to hang on tenter hooks in the mids nineties or even 99 (nice one!) and should be delighted with his lot.
I mean, P Sella, didn’t get there, I irks me so, to think that Ronan from Rochestown would.
Look at the roll call that join the Bull.
George Gregan (Australia) 139 Jason Leonard (England) 119 Fabien Pelous (France) 111 Gareth Thomas (Wales) 103 Stephen Larkham (Australia) 102 Percy Montgomery (South Africa) 102 David Campese (Australia) 101 Alessandro Troncon (Italy) 101Chirs Paterson (Sco) 100
O Gara, is no where near as good a player as any of these.
Alternatively when I look at the list, with the exception of Gregan, Pelous and Campo, I wouldn’t have any of these players on my top ten list of rugby greats.
Now as the apocalyptic ashes begin to fall on the kicking No 10, ROG will be looking at those who run about him on the field and think that he is a dinosaur, looking at the swirling grey skies above blocking out the sun.
But he does it with a smile as he knows his name is safe, and lies guilt edged and embossed on an Irish and 6 Nations points record that probably wont ever be surpassed. No wonder he’s smiling, he’s laughing at us!
what a post mr havisham! I think his cockiness and arrogance without anything substantial to back it up have strange parallels with Ireland over the last 10 years
To quote you toast
“we loath him, as we naturally self loath.”