Ronan O'Gara hopes La Rochelle respond to 'wake up call' ahead of Leinster visit

Ronan O'Gara hopes that the manner of La Rochelle's Top 14 win over Toulouse serves as "wake up call" ahead of the visit of Leinster.

Toulouse, second in the Top 14, sent a youthful side to La Rochelle, without Antoine Dupont and a number of frontliners, and almost came away with victory.

Out-half Antoine Hastoy landed a penalty with the last kick of the game to earn a 22-19 success, however, a desperately poor spectacle was filled with errors from the home side, who gave up multiple scrum penalties and lost a number of lineouts.

The 2022 and 2023 finalists clash for a sixth time in recent seasons on Sunday in round three of the Investec Champions Cup (3.15pm, live on RTÉ Radio 1).

Leo Cullen's side will travel to the west coast of France with a perfect record, 11 wins from 11 URC and European games, while O'Gara's men are sixth in the French league with eight victories and six losses, although they have won both Champions Cup games in Pool 2.

"We will appreciate the four points but right now, it's like a defeat," said former Ireland and Munster out-half O'Gara after the game, played out in front of a 100th consecutive sell-out crowd at Stade Marcel-Deflandre.

"We need to change something.

"If I knew what, I would have done it already. We are suffering, our game is suffering.

"We are not taking pleasure. But it can change. Everyone is negative, but it happens because success creates a lot of problems.

"Success is really in the past, we must stop talking about success. Real competitors stay united and work harder and that's my goal.

"I'm the leader. And we will start that on Monday, Tuesday. Despite everything, we are in the top six in the standings. When we are able to string together a few phases, we will be interesting. It's up