Ka taƙaita labarin:  Kamar dai bai riga ya sani ba, Joe Schmidt ya gano ta hanya mai wuya ranar Asabar da ta gabata cewa minti 80 na iya zama lokaci mai tsawo a wasan rugby. Kasar Ireland na hawa kan wani kalaman ruwa da ke isa Cardiff. Nasara goma a jere da Grand Slam a can don ɗauka. Mintuna tamanin bayan haka, tafiyarsu ta rashin nasara ta ƙare kuma yanzu suna fuskantar ainihin damar da za a bar su ba tare da komai ba don nunawa don ƙoƙarin su a cikin 2015. Shekara guda da ta gabata sun sami saurin shiga zagaye na karshe na gasar. Sun jagoranci teburin tare da bambancin maki mai yawa kuma, bayan da Ingila ta kasa yin watsi da wannan burin a Roma, babu wata matsala ta waje da ke damun hankalin Ireland a wannan maraice na wasan kusa: doke Faransa kuma taken ya kasance nasu. Jared Payne (a hagu), Iain Henderson (a tsakiya) da Jordi Murphy a lokacin atisayen Ireland a ranar Alhamis. Dan wasan Ireland, Sean O'Brien ya zura kwallo a baya a lokacin da Ireland ke zaman su a sansaninsu a Carton House. Jonathan Sexton (a tsakiya) da'yan wasansa'yan Irish suna shirye-shiryen gwagwarmayar su da Scotland. Watanni goma sha biyu bayan haka suna cikin mawuyacin hali <unk> na biyu a kan bambancin maki ba tare da cikakken haske game da irin nasarar da ake buƙata don riƙe taken su ba saboda Ingila za ta kasance ta ƙarshe a cikin aiki gobe. Ƙarin damuwa ga Ireland shine rashin iyawarsu na wuce layin gwadawa. Ganin cewa an ci 16 a gasar cin kofin a shekarar 2014, an samu hudu ne kawai a cikin minti 320 a wannan zangon. Schmidt, duk da haka, ya yi iƙirarin cewa ba ya damuwa da fari, yana ƙara cewa dole ne a nuna haƙuri game da ci gaban sabon haɗin tsakiyar filin yanzu da Brian O'Driscoll ya yi ritaya kuma an cire Gordon D'Arcy don Al'ummai shida. "Wasan yana da matukar damuwa", in ji shi bayan ya sanar da tawagar da za ta buga Scotland da ke nuna sauye-sauye biyu daga Wales tare da Luke Fitzgerald da Cian Healy da ke gaba da Simon Zebo da Jack McGrath. Wata mako za ka iya yin kwallo uku kuma mako mai zuwa ba za ka iya samun komai ba kuma za ka iya yin wasa mafi kyau a mako na biyu amma kai kawai...
Joe Schmidt da Vern Cotter sun yi aiki tare a Clermont a Top 14. Su biyun kuma abokan kocin ne a Bay of Plenty a New Zealand. Kasar Ireland ta yi watsi da burinta na lashe gasar Grand Slam a ranar Asabar da ta gabata a Wales. Amma har yanzu kungiyar Schmidt za ta iya lashe gasar ne bisa bambancin maki. Babban nasara a kan Scotland shine burin Ireland a ranar Asabar.