Ronan O'Gara: Simon Zebo the ultimate dressing-room radiator

Sport has become homogenised but if the guy with the X factor gets squeezed out, that is a coaching error
Ronan O'Gara: Simon Zebo the ultimate dressing-room radiator

Kind heart: Simon Zebo

I’ve knocked up against quite a few South Sea Islanders in my time coaching in France and New Zealand. Their body clocks are just different. Fiji time. No stress. What’s the hurry? Always smiling.

I’d have had no problem at all believing Simon Zebo is an islander at heart. He’s one of those rare people, always in good humour. In this trade, he’d be described as a radiator – an energy giver, not an energy sapper.

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