Ronan O'Gara warns La Rochelle players to 'look in the mirror'

Head coach labels Top 14 defeat at bottom of the table Perpignan a 'nightmare' - 'We were taught a lesson in aggressiveness'.

NOT HAPPY: Head coach Ronan O'Gara has advised his La Rochelle players to look in the mirror after their surprise defeat to Perpignan in the Top 14.

La Rochelle boss Ronan O’Gara warned his side that it was ‘time to look in the mirror’ after their three-match winning run shuddered to a halt with a 22-13 loss at bottom-of-the-table Perpignan.

O’Gara did not mince his words with his opinion of the performance at Stade Aime Giral on Saturday. “I'm the boss, I have to take responsibility,” he told regional newspaper Sud Ouest after the match. “We play a game that the players, both French and foreign players, love. But if this is our best effort, it's not a good signal.”