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Lions must pick Schmidt as their 2021 coach now

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The Rugby Paper Team
30 December 2018

A FEWwishes for the New Year: That the Lions do not let a blade of grass grow under their feet before offering Joe Schmidt the ultimate accolade – head coach for the four-Test series in South Africa in 2021.
That referees stamp out the growing practice of players asking them to give an opponent a yellow card.
It’s easily done. Give the yellow card to the one who wanted it given to someone else.
That Leinster win the European Cup for a record fifth time, not so much for their sake as for head coach Stuart Lancaster’s – rising ever higher from the ashes of England&rsqu...

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