Ronan O'Gara: I was no Beauden Barrett or Dan Carter, so…

RED LETTER DAY: Ronan O’Gara rates the 2006 Heineken Cup semi-final victory over Leinster in Lansdowne Road as ‘the most fundamentally important win of my Munster career’. Picture: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Get your compass readings and timepieces out. We are about to return to one of the most vexed items in this increasingly scrambled head of mine, writes Ronan O’Gara

Where before you could set your watch by what I was doing and thinking, now thoughts, both splendid and spurious, have a veritable prairie to run amok in. How are the players coping? Is this the time for me to change gear and approach as a coach?