After hopping from the All Blacks camp last year into the Wallabies head coaching role, Joe Schmidt has fresh intelligence. But will it even be a factor?
Watching on as players finished training with bone-jarring defensive extras at Leichhardt Oval, All Blacks assistant coach Tamati Ellison was asked if Joe Schmidt would give the Wallabies new insights into the Kiwi team this week.
And, like Deans and Rennie before them, Schmidt and Cron will this week experience what it feels like to coach from the gold corner in a Bledisloe Cup bout.last start, Schmidt’s Wallabies will meet the old foe at Accor Stadium on Saturday and attempt to revive the team’s wobbly fortunes. The contest is now down to two games, meaning the Wallabies must win to stand any chance of winning the Bledisloe Cup for the first time since 2002.
Schmidt is different, in that he has hopped directly from the All Blacks camp and into the Wallabies set-up, armed with still-fresh intelligence. The same goes for Cron.But if they’re worried about it, the All Blacks aren’t letting on. Asked if they’d have to change calls and tactics, Ellison said: “There are a few bits, obviously, but I think fundamentally it’s a collision sport.
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