Joe Schmidt has received a lot of credit for the job he has done since taking on the Irish job. His work was rewarded with just one defeat in 2014, and Ireland now have nine wins in a row.
On Saturday, we witnessed more of his tactical intelligence when he sent out a team with a game plan that was perfectly designed to topple France.
Les Bleus are all about power, so Schmidt told his team not to give them the chance to use it. Kicking was the order of the day—keeping the pill away from the clutches of the brutish French tacklers.
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