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Published 15:53 5 Oct 2017 BST
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"We had a prop, a South African prop who I'm not going to name, a few years back. "He was dancing to a song in the gym and tried to do the splits, and the threw his groin out. The coach went absolutely mad!"
That was not the end of the forward's injury woes.
"A second time," McLaughlin continued, "this same character had hurt his calf and he was back after being six weeks out.
"He went for a medical to test his calf and did a calf raise of his body weight and got a Grade 2 calf tear doing that. He had a propensity to get low impact injuries and severe ones at that."O'Gara can finally see those frustrations, over hapless players, now that he is on the coaching staff at Racing 92 and he says the big risk is often in the regular games of football in training or before matches. "If the boys put the same effort into the 5-a-side soccer as the match, we'd win everything," O'Gara remarked.
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