Ronan O'Gara: Personality profiling the perfect team player

I like players who are receptive to learning and new ideas and I have the Denis Irwin of French rugby in our dressingroom.

Jules Favre of Stade Rochelais holds off Tommy Freeman of Northampton Saints. Picture: Marc Atkins/Getty Images

YOU sit in on meetings with agents priming their players for a move and, at times, wonder are we all talking about the same guy when the conversation turns to fees and contracts.

On the drive home across the bridge into Ile de Re, it’s easy to start thinking how lucky we are to have diamonds like Ultan Dillane and Jules Favre to work with every day.