Joe Schmidt straddling the divide between now and then with Ross Byrne call
IT all got a little bit wacky in the last 10 minutes in Melbourne last Saturday, even for those of us in the AAMI Stadium. John Cooney came on for a second cap for Johnny Sexton but everyone was still trying to process what was happening with Devin Toner going off, Joey Carbery replacing him and chasing restarts in the second-row position. Who was at 10?
It was such a bizarre finish to a test match Ireland could have won by 30 points that we were braced for the Australians excavating an incredible victory in the final series of plays. It isn’t beyond the Wallabies, as it’s part of Super Rugby philosophy, to go the length of the pitch at the end. That happens almost every weekend in at least one of the Super Rugby fixtures, whereas in our part of the world, something like that instantly becomes part of 101 Best Tries video territory.
