Schmidt gears up for Ireland homecoming with Prendergast on his mind

Australia coach plotting how to unravel his old team after Andy Farrell’s surprise selection of a callow No 10

If you know anything of Joe Schmidt, then he’ll have popped into your head every other time the referee Chris Busby penalised the Wallabies at Murrayfield last Sunday. You could imagine the coach formulating the email that would wing its way to World Rugby – coincidentally where Schmidt spent 12 months of his career a few years back. The attachments would have included all available camera angles, along with the relevant points of law. Chances are, every case made would have been compelling.

Would he have had a good night’s sleep in the south Dublin hotel where his squad checked in after travelling from Edinburgh? You could answer that with the word he would use with Leinster players when they’d suggest a move he didn’t think would work: “Nah.”

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