No excuses, no what ifs for Ronan O'Gara after Leinster 'hammer' La Rochelle

“They were sharper to everything and they made it difficult for us and their rush defence worked well and in the first 70."

Dan Sheehan of Leinster shakes hands with La Rochelle head coach Ronan O'Gara after the Investec Champions Cup quarter-final at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Picture: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

Ronan O’Gara called it as it was. A hammering. There were no excuses, no what ifs, just statements of fact. His La Rochelle side fell 27-points short of Leinster at the Aviva in a Champions Cup quarter-final. It’s hard to quibble with that.

“It’s easier to move on,” he said of that scoreline on Saturday night.