Never accept something if you play against a Joe Schmidt team – the Irish times –

Fit on the four-man line of the Wallabies.

It is 2014 and we have England exactly where we want them. In a packaged Twickenham, which is directly outside the 22 lineout, every green jersey has a certain task to do.

Devin Toner taps down and I go straight to Jamie Heaslip, who hits some large bodies.

Two-second jerk. Toner covers a certain floor to appear again in midfield and transfer the 22. Peter O'Mahony removes Joe Launchbury from the edge of the back.

I go back to Jamie and show around him (run a bait). Paul O'Connell is on the arm of Launchbury when Rob Kearney passes on Heaslips Reverse Pass and sprints through a hole in the white wall.

Johnny Sexton is on Rob's shoulder if the England foreign defender Mike Brown, who is wrong with my movement, is recovering to make an experimental mirror.

Kearney goes under the contributions to try three phases – directly from the new head coach in Ireland.

In Munster we could never find out Joe Schmidt's linster. The collapse never went in the way and we needed the video session on Monday morning to understand how Leinster had opened us. You would see it at any other jerk – one of your players would deliberately clean “long” and take out a defender.

Like the way Pete Launchbury removed.

The mistake that most teams made at that time was to be expected that Schmidt players repeat what worked in the past week. Never accept something if you play against a team trained by Joe.

Many of the lions, players and trainers have shaped their career by him. All of this knowledge combined with its established attack patterns can be used against them. A small change is enough to tear the lions on the seams.

Do you remember Richie Mo'unga in Paris?

At a crucial moment during this Lions series in Australia, I guarantee that we will see something from the attack of the Wallabies that a Schmidt team did not run before.

Rugby is a chess game in Joe's head. It's about everyone who runs the tiny details. It was a relief that went to the Irish camp under him in 2013. The Munster, Ulster and Connacht -had suffered enough.

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In this first November series we almost beat the all Blacks. We still learned to reduce the errors and the number of punishment to individual numbers. We learned enough to beat New Zealand in Chicago and again in Dublin.

It is always about the production of space. Like the CJ strong attempt in Tickenham for the Grand Slam in 2018.

Four-man line. Bait runners everywhere. Sexton makes a dummy loop around Tadhg Furlong, the Bundee Aki places a passport to share the seams.

CJ was on his shoulder.

Every single movement was equipped and practiced by every Irish player like an NFL game book.

Then there was the quarter -finals in Stade de France in 2023 when the New Zealand assistant coach Schmidt returned to Haun Ireland.

The four-man line looked familiar. Never accept something. Will Jordan's attempt was a turn about what Ireland had produced in the past. It was a system error of our defense, but JOES fingerprints were directly from the lineout everywhere in this Mo'unga line break in the first recipient.

Jordan was on his shoulder.

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That night the All Blacks frustrated hell out of us. We were again Münster against Leinster when they achieved two attempts before the first phase attacks, while we had to work incredibly hard for every point.

The Wallabies and Joe want nothing more than pulling the lions into a similar, energetic scenario. If the Lions are forced to commit more than two players for successive breakdowns, we have a serious competition.

The difference between Jamison Gibson-Park, who gets two seconds or five-second jerk ball, could be the profit and loss of the series.

As with this quarter-finals of the World Cup, there is a blueprint to beat Andy Farrell team, although the Wallabies in 2025 would have to be as fatal as the All Blacks.

Farrell has to enjoy the chance to meet against Schmidt's tactical brain. Joe is no different. Everyone knows everyone else very well.

Farrell will not have time for the second installment from Schmidt so that this role could fall Sexton. We called Johnny “Joes son” as they were so oriented in the camp. You would discuss potential scenarios in the Carton House for hours.

Johnny was Joe Mind-in-Motion on the field. I am not sure whether the Wallabies have a similar general in the field.

What they have is Joseph Suaalii. This rugby league superstar is a cross between Israel Folau and Sonny Bill Williams. Against England last November, he repeatedly rose via Maro Itoje to regain the Australian start. Itoje was lifted by his props.

One way to avoid a tight series is that the Lions wiped out the Wallaby pack from the kick-off. Take in your 22 foothold and let the Pilot from Dan Sheehan try to be tried out from the bout of driving. Take the trainer out of the game.