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Ireland set to face world champion All Blacks
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It has been announced today that Ireland will welcome New Zealand to the Aviva Stadium next year as the sides prepare for the 2019 World Cup.
Joe Schmidt's side were able to make history last year in Chicago after claiming victory over the back-to-back World Cup winner.
Following Ireland's three test win in the Guinness Series this weekend, Schmidt, speaking to the Irish Independent, said, "You never know the Tier 2 (team) until later but I think it is Argentina and New Zealand.
"We are very conscious of looking after the provinces as well. Wales playing next week (against South Africa) - the week before Europe - I think it makes it very tough for their regional teams leading into Europe.
"It is a little bit of a compromise I suppose."
While there is no official word yet, Schmidt said that he was open to an add-on fixture, possibly abroad.
He said: "At this stage (it is just three games). Again, we'll always get asked for a fourth game.
"We haven't had a formal request from anyone yet but if there is one, as we got for the match in Chicago, then we'd consider it if it comes up and we'd try and stay in touch with the provincial coaches and see if we can make it work."
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Yeah I predicted (out of thin air) it to be more like 30 points between them. You don't think it wasn't more like that because they picked jaded players?
Will have a look at the game now I guess.
Go to commentsDon't mind me lol I just thought it was funny that you saw the opportunity to show some good parochialism at the end of this article. I thought we were going to have an interesting Italian perspective on the game to read (which we could counter attack with our perspective etc), instead it was about an Englishmans perspective on the game/rugby (which I wasn't interested in replying to at all).
Oh, and I also should be always in that last sentence. Can't say I've even seen a 6N without a bunny team but it certainly wasn't Italy this year!
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