O’Gara hails Reds’ forward thinking on ‘best day’

A FEW of his attempted touch finders that ended up in the arms of speedy Toulouse wingers might have given Munster fans a few undesirable palpitations but Ronan O’Gara was a man among men once again in the Millennium Stadium.

Because he has been doing it so often over the years, people have, perhaps understandably, grown into the belief that this place kicking business is a piece of cake. And yet, as our gaze spread across this amazing sporting arena on Saturday and felt the anxiety of 60,000 or so Munster supporters, we wondered how many people in any field of sporting activity would have been able to knock over these goals, no matter how easy it might appear, with the same aplomb as the Munster number 10.

There is, of course, a lot more to O’Gara’s game than kicking penalties and conversions although it is extremely doubtful that Munster would now have two Heineken Cups in the locker and, come to think of it, whether Ireland would have captured three Triple Crowns in the recent past.