{"id":179304,"date":"2025-11-13T23:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T23:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/179304\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T23:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T23:22:10","slug":"ive-been-looking-forward-to-finishing-for-a-long-time-joe-schmidt-on-his-plans-after-leaving-wallabies-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/179304\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ve been looking forward to finishing for a long time\u2019 \u2013 Joe Schmidt on his plans after leaving Wallabies role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Head coach Joe Schmidt during an Australia training session at Blackrock College. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sports3289955.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Head coach Joe Schmidt during an Australia training session at Blackrock College. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Joe Schmidt left the Wallabies press conference room in Stillorgan this afternoon with a hardback copy of James Joyce\u2019s Dubliners under his left arm. He was given it as a present ahead of his final game in Dublin as Australia head coach on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Few know more than this experienced head coach that sentimentality has a short shelf-life with a big Test match incoming, but the former Ireland Grand Slam-winning boss indulged in some brief nostalgia when he was asked about it at his media briefing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Joe Schmidt during an Australia training session at Blackrock College. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile Joe Schmidt left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,12392,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-179304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sinead-kissane","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115544964982860572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}