Stepping out of the European rugby comfort zone

Like Ronan O’Gara, Welsh rugby coach Alistair Rogers understood the maxim about travel broadening the mind, says Brendan O’Brien. 

“Over the last few years I have been growing my experience. I have had the fortune of working with some of the world’s best coaches, helping me gain a great wealth of knowledge, not only about the game but about how a top performing team operates and, in turn, the high standards to which I hold myself.”

Not the words of Ronan O’Gara, despite the week that is in it. They are, instead, the thoughts of Alistair Rogers whose journey to the summit of New Zealand rugby has been far more unlikely than that of the Munster legend.