Eire forwards coach Paul O’Connell has mentioned he expects three-time Six Nations winner Joe Schmidt to elevate Australia from their droop. Former Eire boss Schmidt was appointed by the Wallabies in January following Rugby World Cup humiliation which noticed them dumped out on the pool stage at France 2023.
The 59-year-old has been put in on a contract till the top of the British and Irish Lions tour subsequent summer time and it isn’t recognized whether or not he’ll stay within the function past 2025. O’Connell mentioned he can see components of Schmidt’s work with Eire in Australia’s early matches underneath his management.
“We’d nonetheless do bits and items of what he had in place again within the day,” he informed RTE. “Everybody might be doing a little form of model of the identical factor on the breakdown anyway however we nonetheless have bits and items of the language that he used to make use of. That was an enormous a part of how he coached.
“He was the primary ever coach actually that I skilled that was very constant in how he spoke about numerous components of the sport and due to that you simply had actual readability in what was anticipated in numerous components of the sport, and the ruck was no totally different.”
The Wallabies tackle Andy Farrell’s Eire on the Aviva Stadium on Saturday trying to bounce again from their 27-13 defeat to Scotland in Edinburgh. Previous to that they loved victories over England at Twickenham and Wales on the Principality Stadium, as Schmidt has continued to make his mark.
“He was very clear in how he coached,” mentioned O’Connell. “Teaching had moved on quite a bit however we have been nonetheless relying somewhat bit on emotion at occasions whereas he was technically excellent. Everybody talks about his element. He has excellent instructing ideas. He wouldn’t simply let you know what he needed you to do, by means of the periods he would truly provide you with a pathway of methods to change the behavior or getting higher at one thing. That was a very pleasant facet for me.”