JOE Schmidt, the recently-appointed coach of a Wallaby vintage who wear the same colours as Matthew Burke, David Campese, Tim Horan and John Eales but no longer play anything resembling the same sport, is widely celebrated for his attention to detail. So how’s this for a start?
“One of the challenges,” he said, casting his mind forward to the British and Irish Lions tour of Australia in the summer of next year, “is getting the right to earn support for those games because we’re going to be playing a team comprised of four nations that are all ranked well above us.”

Not quite, Joe. Not unle...