#RWC newsletter: Captain Sexton's dream and Joe Schmidt's greatest challenge

As Ireland hunkers down for the arrival Thursday of Hurricane Lorenzo (has a weather event ever sounded as masculine?), over in Japan the boys in green are slowly moving on from the wreckage of last Saturday’s storm in Shizuoka.

The first step comes against Russia this Thursday (Ireland are 1/1,000 favourites) with a new captain in the shape of Johnny Sexton who has declared himself fully fit and ready to reignite our RWC mission at the Kobe Misaki Stadium (11.15am, RTÉ Two and Eir Sport).