Ireland’s players have the masterful coach they need

It had to be Joe.

The more we’ve come to learn about him, the more we’ve come to admire him.

What really tipped it for this column was our choice of reading in recent days. Last week we dusted down Leo Cullen’s A Captain’s Story, by Irish Sports Publishing, to get a greater understanding of his gaffer at Leinster, while also dipping in and out of Daniel Coyle’s The Talent Code and its companion book, The Little Book of Talent.