Joe Schmidt admits Ireland are focusing on England now title looks remote
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• Ireland’s Six Nations hopes all but gone after 10-9 defeat by France• Schmidt: ‘We are a week-to-week team’Life as a head coach has been about as smooth an experience as Joe Schmidt could have reasonably expected since he took on the Leinster job, then the Ireland one he currently holds. Which is to say it has been as smooth as the man himself. Leinster won titles as soon as he took over, and his record as Ireland coach reads: two Six Nations campaigns, two Six Nations titles.Now, though, he is entering choppy waters for the first time. Pedants will no doubt point to the theoretical sequence…





