“There is no plan.” Jerry Flannery was talking to his friend Ronan O’Gara. He had been to New Zealand to visit him when O’Gara was part of the coaching set up at Crusaders and, from there, O’Gara had moved on to become head coach of French club La Rochelle. Flannery, who has never encountered a scenario which he felt couldn’t have been made better with even more preparation, wanted to know O’Gara’s strategy as he developed his coaching life. “I used to always try and plan everything all the time and I’d be like, ‘Oh, I’ll plan this and I’ll…

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