For La Rochelle head coach Ronan O’Gara, having a player like Fiji’s Levani Botia in his squad must be an absolute dream. The centre is a human wrecking machine in the middle of the field, and what makes him so unique, and helpful, is that he can also fill in at flanker when needed. That […]
English rugby has said goodbye this week to a number of players that probably did not get the recognition they deserved on the international stage. Exeter Chiefs’ Don Armand is one player that springs to mind, and another is Bath’s Semesa Rokoduguni, who played his last game for Bath against London Irish in the penultimate […]
La Rochelle may have snatched the Heineken Champions Cup away from Leinster at the death on Saturday in Marseille through Arthur Retiere’s try, but it is easy to forget that they were trailing 18-10 with a quarter of the match remaining. At that point it looked as though Leinster were going to saunter to their […]
Leinster skipper Johnny Sexton must have been sick of the sight of La Rochelle inside centre Jonathan Danty by the time he was taken off the field in the final quarter of the Heineken Champions Cup final on Saturday. The France No12 ran hard and often down Sexton’s channel, and perhaps epitomised La Rochelle’s direct […]
