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'It's love': Ronan O'Gara has made his peace with Christophe Urios

Ronan O'Gara ignores Christophe Urios in 2022 (Photo by Xavier Leoty/AFP via Getty Images)

Ronan O’Gara’s acrimonious relationship with rival Top 14 coach Christophe Urios has come to an end with last Saturday’s half-time handshake and a couple of post-match beers. The pair were even sanctioned by league officials in France in 2022 for their tempestuous behaviour towards each other.

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At that time, Urios was in charge of Bordeaux. However, he is now at the helm in Clermont and last weekend’s league fixture in La Rochelle resulted in peace between the duo. The home side emerged with a 20-15 victory and at his post-game media briefing, O’Gara told reporters: “It’s been five years since I spoke to Christophe, I shook his hand. Now it’s love.”

Explained what took place, Urios told RMC: “I don’t know if it’s love or death. With the accent, we don’t understand well (laughs). We argue so much with guys because I’m in my thing, I don’t like people coming to bother me, it’s part of me. Ronan is a specialist for that.

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“I hate people complaining about my players. We had argued several times. And Saturday, at half-time, I found myself face to face with him. It’s not that I had to shake his hand. If I didn’t want to I wouldn’t have done it. I might have even stepped on his foot (laughs).

“But hey, I did it. The score probably helped him come, and he told me that we would see each other at the end of the match. He came with a few beers in the locker room. It made everyone laugh, especially Benji Urdapilleta.”

Match Summary

2
Penalty Goals
1
2
Tries
2
2
Conversions
0
0
Drop Goals
0
93
Carries
100
4
Line Breaks
3
16
Turnovers Lost
13
7
Turnovers Won
8

Speaking in 2022 after a touchline clash between the pair, Urios said: “This guy is unbearable. He goes to the stands, he stirs up trouble in the stands. He goes to the edge of the pitch, he stirs up trouble at the edge of the pitch. He is unbearable, he shows off. But I don’t care, I have moved on, I don’t give a damn about him.”

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JW 2 hours ago
Where is the new breed of All Black 10?

Players like Prendergast and Finn Smith already have a few seasons at top club level under their belt and are now test players, at an age when NZ players make their debuts in SR.

That’s just a difference in standards. You’re confusing SR for being their local domestic comps, where it’s more accurately comparable to Champions Cup, apart from that teams are happy to throw games as it’s in a bit of a limbo in terms of importance atm.


All these kids have been playing for a comparable NPC team for years now. Sam is no where near ready for tests but he has a great temperament, much like Sextons, that makes it a good choice to speed up his development. He wasn’t even a comparable Super Rugby starter before playing for Ireland, so not a great comparison.


Fin would be much better example, but then England don’t have 3 world class Test tens in front of him (not that I’d put Beauden their but obviously in terms of young NZ players chances, he is). Would he otherwise have debuted at the same age as Fergus Burke (injury and leaving withstanding), around 24, a couple of years later? England also aren’t as pedantic to who they give jerseys to, in NZ a test jersey is very hard earned for the most part.


In general I think the effects are as you say, but the only difference is the money involved, as you yourself said, their paths are just as all over the show being loaned out playing for clubs etc. My solution to that, and what you perceive as the problem, would be to introduce university football that utilitizes the large investment they have into high performance sport.

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