{"id":3300,"date":"2014-11-13T21:08:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T20:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2014-11-13T21:08:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T20:08:12","slug":"neil-francis-ruthless-schmidt-front-best-coach-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/neil-francis-ruthless-schmidt-front-best-coach-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Francis: Ruthless Schmidt out in front as best coach in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nUnrelenting quest for perfection puts Ireland boss in league of his own – with Michael Cheika second<\/p>\n

When Joe Schmidt took over as coach of the national side, Ireland were in ninth position in the IRB world rankings. A precarious position – Ireland were out of the top eight seeded teams.<\/p>\n

Ireland would have gone up to third if JP Pietersen hadn’t scored in the last minute of Saturday’s game – somebody might pay for that indiscretion yet.<\/p>\n

Winning matches validates Schmidt’s coaching credentials and orchestrating a good, old-fashioned mugging would certainly be pleasing to all of the back-room staff, but the fact that the late try by the Springboks came as it did. . . it was made known to all that it displeased the head coach. He doesn’t say these things for show……….. see more at :- http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/sport\/rugby\/autumn-internationals\/neil-francis-ruthless-schmidt-out-in-front-as-best-coach-in-the-world-30740840.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unrelenting quest for perfection puts Ireland boss in league of his own – with Michael Cheika second When Joe Schmidt took over as coach of the national side, Ireland were in ninth position in the IRB world rankings. A precarious position – Ireland were out of the top eight seeded teams. Ireland would have gone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1836],"tags":[704,92,1330,1578,1224,2441],"class_list":["post-3300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","tag-best","tag-coach","tag-francis","tag-neil","tag-schmidt","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3302,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions\/3302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}