Where confidence is everything and perception is dangerous

There are still strange days in this great old game, writes Ronan O’Gara
Where confidence is everything and perception is dangerous

Spent Wednesday listening to a jet fighter pilot trying to convince us of the similarities between his day job and mine. That could take a while.

But the one week in every month I am spending at the French rugby headquarters in Marcoussis doing my coaching badges is under- pinning one of sport’s enduring truisms. Situation management and player management is fundamental.

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