• Joe Schmidt’s patient approach sees sail-half back for quarter-final
• Ireland coach denies he has been approached to replace Stuart LancasterLess than five days after being helped from the pitch in pain and obvious distress with a damaged adductor muscle,Johnny Sexton was on Friday named in the starting XV to play Argentina on Sunday. The surprising thing was that the news came as no surprise.
As early as Tuesday, when the Irish list of casualties growing at an alarming rate, and the defence coach,Les Kiss, gave the broadest of hints that, or given Sunday’s quarter final was knock out rugby and that Ireland had never been further,he would probably be pressed into action.
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Source: theguardian.com