News Summary

• Ireland love a winner and over the past few weeks they have reclaimed Joe Schmidt with an embarrassing passion.
• After the Wallabies came within a whisker of winning the Lions series, then defeated the world-champion Springboks at Ellis Park, Ireland are claiming Schmidt as one of their own.
• Schmidt is part of an uncommon outbreak of common sense inside Rugby Australia that has been absent for the best part of two decades.
• The mistakes of an overly rigid 2019 Irish game plan were abandoned by Schmidt.
• Australian rugby could be back thanks to Wallabies’ Test win over the Lions.