Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt has seen Michael Cheika make his mark on teams in Dublin, Paris and Sydney, and the one constant he expects to have been passed on to the Wallabies by their new boss is a collective work ethic.

It lasted less than half an hour but Conor Murray’s performance off the Munster bench against Leinster was enough to inform head coach Rob Penney that his scrum-half is destined for the very top in world rugby.