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Published 12:32 23 Mar 2017 GMT
Updated 12:38 23 Mar 2017 GMT
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The fateful moment arose early in Leinster's 2006/07 season. McLaughlin recalls:
"I'd say Luke was in the set-up, and changing room, around two weeks and he was challenging Cheiks - Michael Cheika - and I can just remember the look of disbelief in his face. He's just been taken out of the academy and was on a development contract. "He had played about two games, against the Dragons and someone else, and he sticks up his hand and says 'Cheiks, I don't agree with that at all'. Everyone just spins around. "Maybe Drico and perhaps Shaggy might have been able to challenge Cheiks but, like, a nineteen year old, fresh out of the academy and wet behind the ears, challenging Cheika was just hilarious."O'Gara takes a slightly different view on Fitzgerald's verbosity. He says:
"For me, it was really refreshing to see because he was 100 per cent convinced in (A) his ability and (B) what he was talking about. He absolutely gave his point and it didn't matter who he was talking to. If he wasn't in the team, it didn't bother him. "I think that really developed our squad to a place where there was a big value on the people that potentially weren't in the team in a certain week."Far from pissing O'Gara off, he says he sat back at the time and thought 'I wish I was like that'. High praise from a Munster legend to a not so old Leinster rival.
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