Ronan O’Gara, Stephen Ferris, Rob Penney and Rob Kearney on The Hard Yards

Weddings, player welfare, the amount of surgeries in a season, Billy Vunipola, Penney's Munster and more discussed this week.

https://soundcloud.com/thehardyardssportsjoe/ep-30-rog-and-fez-on-player-welfare-rob-penney-interview-and-honeymoon-horrors Ronan O'Gara, Stephen Ferris, former Munster coach Rob Penney and Ireland and Leinster full back Rob Kearney join Pat McCarry and Andy McGeady on The Hard Yards. There are some frank, honest words from Penney about his time in Munster, Kearney tries to focus on the positives after another injury setback and Hayley O'Connor of Ladbrokes gives Andy and Pat the odds lowdown ahead of the latest Guinness PRO14 action. https://twitter.com/patmccarry/status/913323850821246976 Here's a full run-down of this week's show: 1:00 - Fez talks about his recent wedding and ROG talks about honeymoon horrors 5:50 - The subject of player welfare is discussed, how good is it in Ireland? 12:10 - Why is it normal that professional rugby players are having at least two surgeries in a season? 16:30 - ROG on mentoring players who are thinking of leaving Ireland to play abroad 19:30 - Is there a proper player welfare structure in France? 23:00 - Fascinating stuff from ROG on forward planning squads and player rotation 25:00 - ROG on Pat Lambie arriving at Racing 92 27:00 - An in-depth interview with former Munster coach Rob Penney 35:00 - Real honesty from Rob Penney on what he expected when he joined Munster 50:00 - Pat McCarry talks to Rob Kearney about his injury and holding onto the Irish #15 jersey 55:40 - Ladbrokes' Hayley O'Connor joins for this week's head-to-head between Pat and Andy 1:04:00 - Twitter questions on getting a reduced ban and how a coach would react to Sean O'Brien's comments last week