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"In terms of sacrifice, do you want to go for a walk in the forest with your family of a Sunday or you want to go kicking in Musgrave Park?" he spoke before about preparation and bouncing back from missed chances. "I know what I want to do today but back then, I wanted to go kicking balls."So when the Munster native watches what all Irish rugby fans were forced to watch in the first half against Scotland, it doesn't sit well with him. Bullied, was the most apt word he could summon. Bullied. https://twitter.com/RTErugby/status/827899034350161920 Whilst Stuart Hogg waltzed in for the two opening tries and Rob Kearney felt the full brunt force of a frustrated public because of it, O'Gara put it short and sweet.
"Hogg is getting too much of a free run," he said. "Good player, yes. But he shouldn't be made to look that good."Of course, the former out-half has been at the wrong end of it himself and he remembers those days all too well. Himself and Shane Horgan recalled a day in 2001 when the Irish backline was praised to the high heavens only to crumble against the Scots.
"We went out and went on the sauce for the night," O'Gara told the tale of trying to get over the loss. "I was rooming with Guy Easterby and we came back at 6 in the morning to our hotel. The paper was on the knob of the door. "So we got into the bedroom and Guy started reading the sports section. He got onto the ratings and said, 'ROG, do you want the good news or the bad news?' "I said, 'Give us the good news, Guy.' "'We got five out of 20 between us...'"It was Easterby who got the 3. https://twitter.com/RTErugby/status/827901389573459968 They might not look too good for Joe Schmidt's men today either.
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