O’Gara could play bigger part

Future Racing Metro coach Laurent Labit refused to be drawn on whether they will issue Ronan O’Gara with a squad number for next season.

Labit and his co coach Laurent Travers signed O’Gara on a two-year contract. At Toulouse this season, with Guy Noves’s side struggling on the injury front, forwards coach and retired French rugby legend William Servat was called into action in October. He has played 15 times since helping Toulouse into tonight’s Top 14 semi-final against Toulon.

When asked if Racing will be applying for a playing license for O’Gara, like Toulouse had done with Servat, Labit refused to answer directly, but replied ambiguously with a smile: “It’s the fashion.”