You are never blasé about Six Nations

How would France do in the Six Nations championship with Joe Schmidt in charge? That was an interesting hypothetical posed to me ahead of the Six Nations championship.

Ireland taking on France in last year's Six Nations.

For context, here are two more questions: Where do the French rank among the six countries, and how many of their squad would make a Best XV from this season’s 6N squads?

That would ultimately dictate the length of time it would take Joe Schmidt to turn things around. Even if he was at the helm, I don’t see they could be successful before 2019?