VIDEO: Ireland all set for a date with destiny

A captain down, a decimated back row and his on-pitch general carrying an injury into the biggest game of his coaching career.
VIDEO: Ireland all set for a date with destiny
Sun, 18 Oct, 2015 - 01:00
Simon Lewis

It should be a cause for sleepless nights but if these are nervous times as kick-off looms for tomorrow’s World Cup quarter-final against Argentina, Joe Schmidt is not showing it.

It is not in the Ireland head coach’s job description.

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