Will Skelton: Little details have turned legend Ronan O'Gara into top coach

O’Gara, the giant lock believes, is someone he is willing to bulldoze through teams for, and just as he did against Leinster in the semi-final, he is ready to it again

‘You don’t want to go out there with any regrets and this is basically the last game of the European calendar for us so we want to let loose and hopefully come away with the result,’ says La Rochelle’s Australian lock Will Skelton ahead of Saturday’s Heineken Champions Cup final against Toulouse. Picture: Xavier Leoty / AFP

Will Skelton had enough faith in Ronan O’Gara the player to put the former Munster fly-half in a Rugby 08 PlayStation team and the Australian is just as impressed with O’Gara the head coach as La Rochelle prepare to face Toulouse in Saturday’s Heineken Champions Cup final.

Skelton is no stranger to big games and has worked with enough good management teams in his time with the Waratahs, Wallabies and Saracens to spot coaching talent when he sees it.