Ronan O’Gara’s expletive-laden, Irish-French rugby union team talk goes viral

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  • Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2024
  • Ronan O'Gara, the former Ireland international who coaches French club La Rochelle, has lit up the internet with a pep talk to his team that seamlessly blended French with English swearing, graced with a Cork accent.
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Комментарии • 196

  • @EXTREME4YEARSTOCOME
    @EXTREME4YEARSTOCOME Год назад +411

    Leaving cert French orals be like:

  • @belsonicboom1109
    @belsonicboom1109 Год назад +131

    What an inspirational line to finish a team talk! “I train the F@#€ing best team in the world, now show it to me” 👊🏻

    • @michelcoicaud6888
      @michelcoicaud6888 9 месяцев назад +6

      Génial. Ça c'est un chef, un très grand.

  • @alexbellin8197
    @alexbellin8197 Год назад +70

    You would've thought this was a before a game, not a training session. What a fabulous leader.

  • @paulpurves484
    @paulpurves484 Год назад +161

    Total legend I didn’t think it was possible for him to go up in my estimation but he’s smashed it, what a top lad.

  • @louisekirwan7172
    @louisekirwan7172 Год назад +152

    He is an absolute legend - priceless!

  • @jetblackhair92
    @jetblackhair92 Год назад +346

    The swear words made me understand French a little bit easier though 😂

    • @johnmc3862
      @johnmc3862 Год назад +1

      😂

    • @naturearoundtheworld2425
      @naturearoundtheworld2425 Год назад

      😂😂

    • @ConorD1990
      @ConorD1990 Год назад +3

      Same it gave me something to build the sentence around I guess.

    • @stuarth43
      @stuarth43 Год назад

      moi aussi, mais ne jouer pas Le Rugby
      ah rugby the greatest game dans le monde entier, ferk yeah

    • @schnozz87
      @schnozz87 8 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@ConorD1990yeah you work backwards from the swear words, piece it together with the half dozen French words I actually understand and it all sort of makes sense 😂

  • @pascalanglard2604
    @pascalanglard2604 Год назад +42

    A great player, coach and french speaker !! An irish wonder 😊

  • @MarcoIdolo
    @MarcoIdolo 7 месяцев назад +6

    Some people laugh at him speaking but that's actually incredible, he speaks with confidence, very nice.

  • @DavidWilliams-uw4xf
    @DavidWilliams-uw4xf Год назад +28

    Bravo Ronan, il fait de la discipline!

  • @amt4628
    @amt4628 Год назад +45

    Excuse my French has a whole new meaning! 😂

    • @stabcitySB
      @stabcitySB 8 месяцев назад +1

      Hahahahah ah man, well said.

  • @aidygooner
    @aidygooner Год назад +25

    Treat adults like adults, not pampered kids. 👏👏

  • @HtutWin
    @HtutWin Год назад +21

    Now that's a coach.

  • @paulturner9765
    @paulturner9765 Год назад +66

    Ronan. At his brilliant best….How to motivate a team.
    1:25

    • @fredrik8500
      @fredrik8500 Год назад

      Source: dude just trust me

    • @monkeybudge
      @monkeybudge Год назад +2

      @@fredrik8500
      Would the team winning a final provide a source for the claim

    • @fredrik8500
      @fredrik8500 Год назад

      @@monkeybudge in the words of a true baller: "motivation comes from within. It comes from who you are, your DNA, your background and what you stand for"

    • @monkeybudge
      @monkeybudge Год назад +2

      @@fredrik8500
      That’s funny, because thats pretty much his exact philosophy. To let the players be themselves and who they are. You should look up his interview with rugby pass about 3 weeks ago

  • @Spud607
    @Spud607 Год назад +163

    His French is more understandable than his English I'd say 😂😂😂

  • @Reformed1-e1c
    @Reformed1-e1c Год назад +12

    Ronan O Gara surprises me a lot. Wont be shocked if he coaches Ireland one day

  • @stabcitySB
    @stabcitySB Год назад +15

    Just imagine you play for La Rochelle and ROG says he’s coaching “the best team in the world”… if that doesn’t fill you with certainty I don’t know what will.

  • @johnmc3862
    @johnmc3862 Год назад +55

    Vive le Cork!

  • @Sean-qo8dj
    @Sean-qo8dj Год назад +23

    Emily in Paris would look like this if you’d put an irish caracter

  • @hdg0pc70
    @hdg0pc70 Год назад +11

    Passion from Ronan.

    • @TPRM1
      @TPRM1 Год назад +1

      It’s “La Ronan” now.

  • @pheasantplucker6117
    @pheasantplucker6117 Год назад +6

    Love it . Nice one Roj

  • @iannsinger5760
    @iannsinger5760 Год назад +60

    Genuinely helpful for learning French

  • @TheSMILINGJOE
    @TheSMILINGJOE Год назад +25

    Pardon my French...

  • @mildman1682
    @mildman1682 Год назад +11

    Honestly, he just sounds like he's from Quebec.

  • @Uxuh10
    @Uxuh10 Год назад +13

    The French cork accent is gas

  • @quentinquentin6752
    @quentinquentin6752 Год назад +19

    He should have been coaching England but they went with Borthwick. Well we know how that worked out!! He knows how to get the most out of a team. La Rochelle are a transformed team.

    • @zombievikinggaming4258
      @zombievikinggaming4258 Год назад +2

      ​@@BaBa-uh2sjA job is a job. O'Gara is a professional

    • @EclecticSceptic
      @EclecticSceptic Год назад +2

      @@zombievikinggaming4258 Doubt it. He wouldn't shake the Queen's hand (fair play to him), plus he has other options.

    • @vicvicking1990
      @vicvicking1990 Год назад +2

      ​​@@EclecticScepticWell he would have to dig the hand out first

  • @SpaceMonkeyGVTV
    @SpaceMonkeyGVTV Год назад +10

    trop bon!

  • @Natedawg38
    @Natedawg38 Год назад +4

    Really want this guy on Irelands coaching ticket

  • @thehighlander959
    @thehighlander959 Год назад +5

    What I like is... He does not suffer Fools gladly.

  • @patfarget-nm3mt
    @patfarget-nm3mt Год назад +29

    French is my mother tongue and I understood everything even without subtitles...
    when it comes from the heart and the guts and without pretense....
    Shaun Edwards in the French team has more work but the same principle applies..... 👍😂

    • @willslingwood
      @willslingwood Год назад +9

      Fact! English people think there’s a problem with his French because he doesn’t regard the language as a joke.
      French and Irish people just see a fella from Cork delivering a solid talk.

  • @fleshen
    @fleshen Год назад +12

    I wish he had been my French Teacher at school it would have been easir!

  • @anarchocyclist
    @anarchocyclist Год назад +7

    What balls that guy must have to yell at a room of athletes in below A1 french

    • @Timothy_Dalton33
      @Timothy_Dalton33 2 месяца назад

      Oh get over yourself.

    • @KarenMariaMcCormack
      @KarenMariaMcCormack Месяц назад

      A1 seriously? He used the subjunctive and other complex structures. He's at least a high B1 or B2. If his level was A1 or below, he wouldn’t be in that job

  • @condorone1501
    @condorone1501 Год назад +11

    I'm Fluent in French now.😂

  • @eamonlyons8318
    @eamonlyons8318 Год назад +6

    Cannot wait until he's Ireland coach. World Cup every 4 years

  • @GG-tc8cr
    @GG-tc8cr Год назад +4

    Legend

  • @ManaBlack208
    @ManaBlack208 7 дней назад +1

    Holy cow very impressive 🫡

  • @HvonC
    @HvonC Год назад +7

    He should join the legion - make a great Caporal Chef!

  • @liamvisser2798
    @liamvisser2798 Год назад +23

    You can see how this turns into Quebecois almost. Irishmen speaking french over time adds the twang to Quebecois.

    • @stabcitySB
      @stabcitySB 8 месяцев назад +2

      Are you Quebecois? That is such a sharp observation bro. Like Newfoundland & Labrador to the northeast, who have Irish-esque pronunciation of English. That is a wicked sharp observation. Very cool 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼

    • @liamvisser2798
      @liamvisser2798 8 месяцев назад +3

      @@stabcitySB so funny story my mum is born and raised in MTL of Irish heritage… I’d hear her speak French and I see similarities between this video and her french

    • @stabcitySB
      @stabcitySB 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@liamvisser2798 that is so cool man! How you picked up on those subtleties based on an Irish fella speaking French and probably not perfect French according to French speakers but certainly better than mine haha. That is mightily impressive, credit to you!

    • @gregorygout
      @gregorygout 7 месяцев назад +4

      I am glad somebody else noticed this...I am a French living in Ireland and when I tried to explain to some local friends he sounded French Canadian sometimes they were incredulous

    • @unakennelly
      @unakennelly 7 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@stabcitySBI watched a true crime programme from St. John's once, and their accents were pure Tipperary/Waterford. Couldn't believe it.

  • @finbarrcorcoran9342
    @finbarrcorcoran9342 Год назад +19

    Close your eyes and imagine Roy Keane speaking French....

  • @adrianogara9756
    @adrianogara9756 Год назад +4

    Epic!

  • @paulofollowtheredsohes5180
    @paulofollowtheredsohes5180 Год назад +3

    It's franglais, very intéressant speach

  • @LeMerch
    @LeMerch Год назад +33

    CORKONIAN FRENCH!

    • @thomashernandez8700
      @thomashernandez8700 Год назад

      What? Cork?

    • @LeMerch
      @LeMerch 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@thomashernandez8700 oui, he is from Cork in Irlande

  • @bennyksmusicalworld
    @bennyksmusicalworld 6 месяцев назад +1

    I didn’t know I needed to hear French with a very heavy Irish accent but here I am on this side of RUclips 😂

  • @philbotherobot
    @philbotherobot Год назад +4

    Class

  • @canadianmadduck8932
    @canadianmadduck8932 9 месяцев назад +4

    C'est presque notre Langue ici. Québec!

  • @stephenevans6241
    @stephenevans6241 Год назад +1

    nailed it!

  • @timkelliher2453
    @timkelliher2453 Год назад +2

    legend

  • @Padraigcoelfir
    @Padraigcoelfir Год назад +35

    Send this bloke in Canada and we would say he is a true born Canadian.

    • @Padraigcoelfir
      @Padraigcoelfir Год назад +9

      New-Brunswick French may sound a lot, I mean a whole lot like that. Or any bilingual Canadian that learnt French from an English background. Really close to Quebec French too.

    • @TheyCallMeDr_J
      @TheyCallMeDr_J Год назад +9

      All that was missing was the Tabarnac and Câlisse

    • @Headhunter_212
      @Headhunter_212 Год назад +2

      Bon Mec.

    • @DavidR-hg3lp
      @DavidR-hg3lp Год назад +1

      Send him some poutine ...... CANADA needs a coach like that

    • @Padraigcoelfir
      @Padraigcoelfir Год назад

      Absolutely, I am pretty sure he could coach the Maple Leafs to get the Stanley cup, Last time they won it, I wasn't born. @@DavidR-hg3lp

  • @stevenbissett
    @stevenbissett Год назад +1

    Charming character.

  • @jzlmp266
    @jzlmp266 Год назад +2

    😂😂😂😂 proper hilarious, your a legend Rogy😂😂😂

  • @michealjones9863
    @michealjones9863 Год назад +3

    speaking in tongues. French English Irish, there was a cupla focail in there for everyone.

    • @cigh7445
      @cigh7445 Год назад +1

      Cúpla focal a gharsún, (or should I say garçon?)

  • @Woodyjims-shack
    @Woodyjims-shack Год назад +12

    Haven't a clue what he was saying. But I know what he meant!

  • @patsheridan5096
    @patsheridan5096 Год назад +7

    The translation was kind to him!

  • @honestdeal7426
    @honestdeal7426 Год назад +1

    Ronan please come back to Ireland.

  • @LeMerch
    @LeMerch Год назад +62

    The fighting irish.. you guys kicked the brits out during their empire... kudos and respect

    • @Spud607
      @Spud607 Год назад +3

      SIUUUUUU

    • @CaptNeeda
      @CaptNeeda Год назад +5

      Doing him a disservice - he’s a much more nuanced and intelligent man to be labelled as such

    • @Spud607
      @Spud607 Год назад +11

      @CaptNeeda it's something we're proud of, though. Cork man like him, I can guarantee he wouldn't be too miffed with that statement. We call it rebel country in Ireland for a reason.

    • @sheronasims6783
      @sheronasims6783 Год назад

      Just like the Vietnamese did to you and Algeria. Oh wait? France had a nasty old empire too did they? 😳

    • @darkstarr2321
      @darkstarr2321 Год назад

      Proper, especially coming from a Frenchman who had quite a large empire themselves. Also not quite accurate as NI is still part of the UK @@bsell5175

  • @Raisonnance.
    @Raisonnance. Год назад +12

    Ce n'est pas si mauvais ! On comprend suffisamment

  • @ewangent
    @ewangent Год назад +3

    Sounds almost Québécois

  • @iamnutty8471
    @iamnutty8471 2 месяца назад

    ronan was speaking french in a 2011 interview!

  • @KnuxDeluxe
    @KnuxDeluxe 9 месяцев назад

    More passionate than any Rugby League talk... Not sure how this bloke missed the tall ships down south

  • @dhalsim-1
    @dhalsim-1 Год назад +4

    French with bad language in a cork accent. Perfect combination.

  • @patrickenright3874
    @patrickenright3874 Год назад +24

    England need a coach like him

    • @theleesidesnowman1127
      @theleesidesnowman1127 Год назад +9

      I don’t think you’ll get a cork boy to do it tho

    • @alcoyne3333333333333
      @alcoyne3333333333333 Год назад +3

      No way . He'll take over from Andy in a few year's

    • @JoostMehrtens
      @JoostMehrtens Год назад +1

      One who speaks French? Why?

    • @zombievikinggaming4258
      @zombievikinggaming4258 Год назад

      ​@@alcoyne3333333333333Unless somehow Ireland win the World Cup, then you won't see Andy out of a job to at least another World Cup cycle

    • @abdvs325
      @abdvs325 Год назад

      ​@@zombievikinggaming4258 Surely Andy's destined for the England job after Ireland win the world cup

  • @emmanueljf7059
    @emmanueljf7059 6 месяцев назад

    La quête immense du bouclier de Brennus, le graal du rugby.

  • @douglasyoung9320
    @douglasyoung9320 Год назад +2

    If only they taught French like that when I was at school.

  • @MrAhuapai
    @MrAhuapai Год назад

    No need for subtitles to get the point of what O'Gara was talking about.

  • @raymonddixon7603
    @raymonddixon7603 7 месяцев назад +2

    Unfortunately they were destroyed!!!

  • @MOSSFEEN
    @MOSSFEEN Год назад +6

    How to speak French like a Cork Feen Part 1 Tres Bien

    • @ConorD1990
      @ConorD1990 Год назад +2

      Tell me you are from Cork without saying your are from Cork....

    • @TheLastAngryMan01
      @TheLastAngryMan01 Год назад +2

      What’s the French word for beure? ;)

  • @raypurchase1239
    @raypurchase1239 10 месяцев назад

    Leader.

  • @dondestura4720
    @dondestura4720 6 месяцев назад

    sounds he's from Montreal?

  • @mattmeade983
    @mattmeade983 Год назад +18

    I hope there’s a translator to help the poor French lads understand that…

  • @westwest35
    @westwest35 Год назад +7

    French with a Irish accent 🤨

    • @quentinquentin6752
      @quentinquentin6752 Год назад

      You expect him to switch to a Parisian or Brittany accent ?

    • @westwest35
      @westwest35 Год назад

      @@quentinquentin6752 nah not really

  • @viviennelebel1165
    @viviennelebel1165 25 дней назад

    Je l'adore !!!

  • @Wolf-hh4rv
    @Wolf-hh4rv Год назад

    what language is that?

  • @NorthernStare
    @NorthernStare 8 месяцев назад

    I can see this man managing England to a grand slam some day, after he's won 6 with Ireland

  • @Shamo-yc4vy
    @Shamo-yc4vy Год назад +1

    And that was just before training😂

  • @markwillies7666
    @markwillies7666 Год назад +21

    He just needed to be wearing a beret, holding a baguette, pouring a glass of red wine, having a plate of fromage in front of him and smoking an unfiltered Gauloises, shrugging his shoulders and the transition to Frenchess would have been completed.

    • @red-one5923
      @red-one5923 Год назад

      Bro stop it

    • @columkenn
      @columkenn 11 месяцев назад

      And maybe a fine handlebar moustache)

  • @gazzarooosh
    @gazzarooosh Год назад +1

    Did they win?

  • @decdillon7389
    @decdillon7389 Год назад +1

    👏👏👏👏

  • @geoffaldwinckle1096
    @geoffaldwinckle1096 Год назад +4

    How to make the french laugh

    • @tibsky1396
      @tibsky1396 5 месяцев назад +1

      On the contrary, it's appreciated. Someone who's trying will always be praised, even if he keeps a thick accent.

  • @Emtrax.
    @Emtrax. Год назад +1

    Have you ever heard a french person speak english in an english accent, but with french apparently you have too.

    • @Driver2616
      @Driver2616 7 месяцев назад

      What?

    • @Emtrax.
      @Emtrax. 7 месяцев назад

      @@Driver2616 I thought I explained that fairly well. When a French person speaks english, they still speak in a French accent. So what's the problem if someone who speaks english, speaks French in a non French accent.

    • @Driver2616
      @Driver2616 7 месяцев назад

      @@Emtrax.: Sorry Eoin. So what you’re saying is that when ROG speaks French he speaks it with the accent of a langer…..

    • @Emtrax.
      @Emtrax. 7 месяцев назад

      @@Driver2616 Exactly

  • @francoisdutoit6094
    @francoisdutoit6094 Год назад +2

    Wow, didn't know I could understand Gaelic!

  • @Mark-s5i3c
    @Mark-s5i3c 10 месяцев назад

    HILARIOUS😅

  • @KhanyoMjamba
    @KhanyoMjamba Год назад +3

    Excuse his French

  • @stuarth43
    @stuarth43 Год назад

    moi aussi, mais ne jouer pas Le Rugby
    ah rugby the greatest game dans le monde entier, ferk yeah

  • @barrysamson5139
    @barrysamson5139 9 месяцев назад

    There's even an Irish lilt in Ronan's French.

  • @mtw9471
    @mtw9471 Год назад

    He's no Andy Farrell

  • @Paulfieldz
    @Paulfieldz 9 месяцев назад

    I'm gonna go out on a wild card here, but if a Coach spoke down to me it wouldn't provoke the warrior instinct in me
    I say this as an Irish man

    • @LeMerch
      @LeMerch 7 месяцев назад +1

      At what point did he speak down to any individual.
      Also, that just means you're weak and wouldn't be able to last on an elite sports teams because you can't handle your emotions.

  • @willslingwood
    @willslingwood Год назад

    It’s not “Irish-French”?

  • @ed7384
    @ed7384 Год назад +1

    Great coach even better comedian

  • @seanoreilly1734
    @seanoreilly1734 Год назад +2

    French with a cork accent😂

  • @lawrencewinter
    @lawrencewinter Год назад

    Haha, this is proper

  • @Taidgh17
    @Taidgh17 Год назад +1

    Shishkin will get the hc job after farrell

  • @anthonyrevins4622
    @anthonyrevins4622 Год назад +3

    Corque

  • @michaelschultz3230
    @michaelschultz3230 Год назад

    Duncan McRae

  • @TheyCallMeDr_J
    @TheyCallMeDr_J Год назад +3

    Quebecois or Northern Ontario, Canada dialect for sure!!! 😅

  • @thelolguy007
    @thelolguy007 Год назад +15

    Imagine if this was the Irish soccer girls, he’d be fired 🤣🤣🤣
    Go ROG 👏👏👏👏👊

    • @TPRM1
      @TPRM1 Год назад +11

      Well yeah, because he’d be speaking the wrong language.

    • @daggaboom
      @daggaboom Год назад +1

      @@TPRM1about the wrong game.

  • @ferdinandimposter691
    @ferdinandimposter691 Год назад +5

    J'ai un chien et un cochon d'inde. Je joue au football gaelique aussi

  • @999andyb
    @999andyb Год назад

    it needs a bit more, " we are excited, we want to get better., we are on a journey ....did I mention we are excited?"...

    • @runTommie
      @runTommie Год назад +1

      He should tell the whole team: “Je suis très excité!” That’ll get their attention.

  • @nigelp4328
    @nigelp4328 Год назад +1

    Duolingo?

  • @juanpaul-fux_u
    @juanpaul-fux_u 5 дней назад

    That's why the north only once won the World Cup

  • @Driver2616
    @Driver2616 7 месяцев назад

    What a f…ing bluffer!!!

  • @antonellaluque4532
    @antonellaluque4532 Год назад +1

    Comical haha