Joe Schmidt: 'We didn't prioritise this year's Six Nations and I think that was a mistake'

Joe Schmidt pinpointed a failure to prioritise last season’s Six Nations as a mistake that sowed the seeds of Ireland’s World Cup disappointment nine months later.

Writing in his new book, Ordinary Joe, which went on sale yesterday, Ireland’s most successful head coach outlined his thinking as to why the team he guided to unprecedented success in 2018 then fell flat in Japan last month, crashing out at the quarter-final stage with a 46-14 defeat to New Zealand in Tokyo.