La Rochelle visitors seeing new sides to Rog on home ground

La Rochelle forwards coach Donnacha Ryan and his boss Ronan O'Gara are back on familiar ground having set up training camp at the Fota Island Resort ahead of Saturday’s rematch with old foes Leinster

The La Rochelle players enjoying themselves after training at Cork Constitution's Temple Hill grounds. Pic: JackNowell/Instagram

DONNACHA Ryan has explained just how much La Rochelle’s Champions Cup quarter-final preparations, in Cork this week, have been doubling up as a Ronan O’Gara foundation course for the back-to-back European champions.

The La Rochelle forwards coach and his boss have set up training camp at the Fota Island Resort ahead of Saturday’s rematch with Leinster at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium.