Irishman Ronan O'Gara reflects on the Lions defeat to South Africa in Pretoria
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Ireland legend Ronan O'Gara will begin to repair his damaged reputation, forged on last summer's Lions tour, in the Heineken Cup with Munster. Mark Souster writes in The Times.
"O’Gara is rueful and can even afford to laugh at himself. “It was not the impact I was expecting to make when I came on,” O’Gara said yesterday. He does not seek to make excuses or avoid responsibility for his actions. “But when I got on I was dumped by Spies and for a minute or two I didn’t know where I was.”
"What was going through his mind? “People said I should have kicked it out and settled for the draw, but I was trying to win the Test, get position, maybe a penalty or a dropped goal,” he said. “At that level the margins are so small and no one was more disappointed than I was. I thought it was a harsh penalty. But you live or die by your actions. I have thought about it a lot, but I would not change anything.”
"Brave words, but knowing O’Gara well, it is not an attempt at justification. It is sincere."
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