{"id":292941,"date":"2025-12-01T11:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292941\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T11:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:50:06","slug":"ronan-ogara-in-more-trouble-after-la-rochelle-pick-up-unwanted-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292941\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronan O&#8217;Gara in more trouble after La Rochelle pick up unwanted record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>La Rochelle received the fastest red card in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/top-14\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top 14<\/a> history over the weekend when French international fly-half <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/antoine-hastoy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Antoine Hastoy<\/a> was sent off after just 34 seconds against Pau.<\/p>\n<p>Hastoy was given his marching orders for an unintentional kung-fu-style kick to the head of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/pau\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pau<\/a> wing, Aaron Grandidier-Nkanang, when jumping into the air to retrieve a high ball.<\/p>\n<p>Referee Jeremy Rozier\u2019s decision sparked outrage from La Rochelle\u2019s Director of Rugby, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/ronan-ogara\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ronan O\u2019Gara<\/a>, and he came onto the field to protest the decision before being ushered away.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Gara, 48, struggled to let the incident go and just under an hour into the 53-33 defeat, he was given a red card himself when his critical off-field comments reached the ear of the referee.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the game, O\u2019Gara said: \u201cA start like that is difficult to digest, to understand. But with a little hindsight, I understand the logic behind the \u2018kung fu fighting\u2019: the studs in the opponent\u2019s head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to believe that there was any intention to hurt the opponent. The referee saw blood, and blood is what decides everything. Are there mitigating circumstances? Yes, I think so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Irishman now faces another touchline ban, having already recieved a combined total of 21 weeks punishment since he took over at the Atlantic coast club in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, he received his fifth suspension from league duty when he was found guilty of ill discipline during a Top 14 defeat by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/racing-92\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Racing 92<\/a> and missed the Champions Cup clash against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/leinster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leinster<\/a> as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"La Rochelle received the fastest red card in Top 14 history over the weekend when French international fly-half&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-292941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}