O’Connell and Schmidt provide dream package

Big statement alert: I don’t think in the history of rugby in this country have we had a better captain-coach combination guiding our fortunes into the next World Cup.

Paul O’Connell driving the players, Joe Schmidt with the coaches.

Paul was absolutely immense last Saturday in Paris, and if Ireland were lucky at the Stade de France, it was in having a leader like him on the field, and a coach like Schmidt in the box.