O’Gara hoping to kick on

RONAN O’GARA knows that if he plays “like a robot and an imbecile” in his second British & Irish Lions game tomorrow night his dreams of a Test start next week will be over.

The Munster and Ireland points machine was particularly candid yesterday about his own, and his team’s, opening game performance against the Royal XV, even though he notched a match-winning 22 points and didn’t miss a kick.

Having sat out the next two games, he gets his chance to link-up with Test favourite scrum half Mike Phillips against the Sharks in Durban tomorrow night.