Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Me te mea kaore ano ia kia mohio, i kitea e Joe Schmidt te huarahi uaua i te Rahoroi kua hipa ko te 80 meneti he wa roa i te whutupaoro. I eke a Ireland ki te tihi o te ngaru e tae atu ana ki Cardiff. Tekau nga wikitoria whai muri, me te Grand Slam kei reira hei tango. E waru tekau meneti i muri mai, kua mutu to ratou rere kore i hinga, a inaianei kei te anga atu ratou ki te tino tumanako kia waiho me te kore e whakaatu mo a raatau mahi i te tau 2015. I te tau kua pahure ake nei i whai mana rātau i te haerenga ki te rauna whakamutunga o te whakataetae. I ārahi rātau i te tēpu me te rerekētanga nui o ngā tohu, ā, i muri i te kore o Ingarangi ki te whakatakoto i taua whāinga i Roma, kāore he raruraru o waho e taumaha ana ki te hinengaro o Ireland i te whakataetae o taua ahiahi: i patua a Wīwī, ā, ko te taitara i a rātau. Ko Jared Payne (māui), ko Iain Henderson (pokapū) me Jordi Murphy i te whakawera i te whakangungu a Ireland i te Rāhoroi. Ka tukuna e te kaitakaro o Ireland, a Sean O'Brien, he tuku whakamuri i te wa o te huihuinga a Ireland i to raatau turanga i Carton House. Ko Jonathan Sexton (pokapū) me ōna hoa kaitākaro Irish e whakarite ana mō tō rātau tukinga nui ki a Scotland. Tekau mā rua marama i muri mai, kei roto rātau i tētahi hononga uaua <unk> tuarua i runga i te rerekētanga tohu, kāore he mārama tika i runga i te momo wikitōria e hiahiatia ana hei pupuri i tō rātau taitara i te mea ko Ingarangi te whakamutunga ki te mahi āpōpō. Ko te kore e taea e rātau te whakawhiti i te raina whakamātautau te mea e nui ake ai te manukanuka o Ireland. Ahakoa i eke 16 i te whakataetae taitara i te tau 2014, e whā noa iho i roto i ngā meneti 320 i tēnei wā. Heoi anō, e kī ana a Schmidt kāore ia e manukanuka ana ki te waipuke, me tāpiri atu me whakaatu te taumata o te manawanui ki te whanaketanga o tana whakakotahitanga waenganui o waenganui i tēnei wā kua reti a Brian O<unk>Driscoll, ā, kua mahue a Gordon D<unk>Arcy mō ngā Whenua e Ono. "He tino pōuri te kēmu", i kī ia i muri i tana whakapuaki i tētahi kapa ki te tākaro i a Scotland e whakaatu ana i ngā huringa e rua mai i Wales me Luke Fitzgerald me Cian Healy e haere ana i mua i a Simon Zebo me Jack McGrath. <unk> Kotahi wiki pea ka eke koe ki ngā whakamātautau e toru, ā, i te wiki e whai ake nei kāore pea i tae mai, ā, i pai ake pea tō mahi i te wiki tuarua, engari...
I mahi tahi a Joe Schmidt rāua ko Vern Cotter i Clermont i te Top 14. He hoa whakangungu hoki te tokorua nei ki Bay of Plenty i Aotearoa. I whakarerea e Ireland ā rātou tūmanako nui ki a Wales i te Rāhoroi kua hipa. Engari ka taea tonu e te taha o Schmidt te kii i te taitara i runga i te rereketanga o nga tohu. He wikitoria nui ki runga i a Scotland te whāinga mō Ireland i te Rāhoroi.