The Irish Debate: Ronan O’Gara vs. Jonathan Sexton

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Published: February 24, 2010

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Declan Kidney has named Leinster’s Jonathan Sexton to take on England in Ireland’s visit to Twickenham this weekend.  Munster out half Ronan O’Gara was the only man to be dropped as such, with some believing he has been made a scapegoat for their French loss.

 

Geordan Murphy and Rory Best come into the Irish side, but replace injured Rob Kearney and banned Jerry Flannery respectively.  Donncha O’Callaghan also comes into the side, but it is to resume his partnership with his Munster second row partner Paul O’Connell.

 

It raises the interesting debate as to who is the best No. 10 for Ireland.

 

Many feel that O’Gara is not the man to take the Irish forward, either in this championship or beyond to the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

 

His resume cannot be doubted.

 

He is the record point’s scorer for Ireland and Munster, the record point’s scorer in the Heineken Cup and the Six Nations, and rated as one of the most consistent and reliable number tens the game has ever seen.

 

His big game temperament cannot be questioned either.

 

He played a key role in Munster’s Heineken Cup successes.  He was prominent in their 2006 win, kicking 13 points in their first European championship victory over Biarritz in Cardiff.  And two years later captained Munster to defeat the London Wasps (then reigning champions) in the pool stages, before kicking 11 points as the Irish giants beat Toulouse to win their second Heineken Cup.

 

Internationally he has a plethora of achievements as well. 

 

Who can forget his back-to-back man of the match performances against the Springboks and Argentineans in 2004, when he scored all of his countries points in both games?

 

And, to go along with his four Triple Crowns, it was he who stru...
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