Ronan O'Gara: Don't judge until you've walked a mile in my moccasins

At the Stade Marcel Deflandre, we have itineraries, injuries and investigations choking up our week but the greatest priority this weekend is a win

TWIN TRACK: Reigning champions Bordeaux-Begles are one of the few sides who can compete domestically and in Europe with equal competitiveness . Pic: David Rogers/Getty Images

Before the suspense, the suspension - or at least the galling vista of next week’s disciplinary hearing.

I don’t know which is more frustrating – looking back at last week’s 53-33 loss in Pau, and everything that went with it, or looking forward to a December-January schedule that sees us head straight from the Leicester game Saturday to Cape Town, then back to face Bayonne, Toulouse, Toulon and Leinster in that order. And all with a squad cruelly diminished by injuries and unavailability.