Joe Schmidt: ‘Sometimes you’ve got to take a step back and take a deep breath’

Amid some of the hysteria about Ireland’s poor performance in Rome on Sunday, a few minutes listening to Joe Schmidt offered some more level-headed perspective.

That is not to say Ireland did not play badly, the head coach merely gave an insight into why they had misfired at Stadio Olimpico and how he hoped to fix the evident problems bedevilling his squad right now.