Joe Schmidt doesn’t like journeys into the unknown

Ireland carry three key advantages into today’s opening round of the Six Nations at Stade de France, writes Donal Lenihan

Joe Schmidt doesn’t like journeys into the unknown

1. A journey into the unknown.

If there is one thing Joe Schmidt detests, it is not knowing what his opposition is capable of delivering. Give him the All Blacks any time. He would dissect them with such forensic zeal, as he did in advance of that famous win in Chicago, that not only did he convince his players that they could win, he also provided them with the methodology to do so.

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