Joe Schmidt during a New Zealand training session today. Image: Photosport/Brett Phibbs/INPHO Joe Schmidt during a New Zealand training session today. Image: Photosport/Brett Phibbs/INPHO SOMETIMES IT CAN be strange to see a face we know so well wearing a different crest or different colours, but that wasn’t the case when the first snaps of Joe Schmidt out on the training pitch in his crisp new All Blacks gear started filtering through earlier this week.
The opening game of Ireland’s five-game tour didn’t go to plan, an experimental side falling to a 32-17 defeat to the Maori All Blacks on Wednesday, but Saturday represents a totally new challenge as the big guns come back in, the tourists searching for a first-ever win against the All Blacks in New Zealand.
“That was one key learning and the second was just how dangerous they are in transition. Thirdly, their skill levels, even in wet conditions, June, it was slippy ball, their front five are very comfortable handling. So we got an early snapshot into what you’ll see on Saturday from the boys in black. O’Gara has first-hand experience of watching Schmidt operate, having worked with him for the first leg of Ireland’s summer tour of the USA and Japan in 2017, joining the national set-up for a two-week period. I suppose his organisation and his command of a staff and command of a group was really impressive. He ran very interesting training sessions. Really organised, really detailed, and it was very impressive. Very, very impressive. That week just whizzed by.
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