Meet Joe Schmidt’s and the provincial coaches’ new boss

David Nucifora cracked two jokes on his introduction to the Irish media yesterday.

Meet Joe Schmidt’s and the provincial coaches’ new boss
Fri, 18 Apr, 2014 - 01:00
Brendan O'Brien

One of them was by way of reply to a question about how long the IRFU’s new Performance Director would be hanging around.

“Depends how cold it gets,” said the Australian.

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