{"id":67366,"date":"2018-11-16T02:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T01:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/16\/irelands-joe-schmidt-expects-spiky-all-blacks-encounter-to-decide-worlds-best\/"},"modified":"2018-11-16T02:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T01:02:22","slug":"irelands-joe-schmidt-expects-spiky-all-blacks-encounter-to-decide-worlds-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=67366","title":{"rendered":"Ireland&#039;s Joe Schmidt expects \u2018spiky\u2019 All Blacks encounter to decide world\u2019s best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Schmidt: side \u2018will give as good as we get\u2019 against New Zealand\u2022 Coach defends Bundee Aki\u2019s right to represent IrelandTest rugby is no place for the faint-hearted. With this in mind, Joe Schmidt has predicted another \u201cspiky\u201d clash with the All Blacks which will, in the visitors\u2019 minds at least, decide the mantle of the world\u2019s best team.In their past three drama-filled Tests only three points separate the All Blacks and Ireland, the two top-ranked sides, but much of that engrossing recent history has faded to form a near singular focus on the brutality that punctuated their last match in Dublin. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/nov\/15\/joe-schmidt-defence-bundee-aki-right-to-play-ireland-rugby-union\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland&#039;s Joe Schmidt expects \u2018spiky\u2019 All Blacks encounter to decide world\u2019s best<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Schmidt: side \u2018will give as good as we get\u2019 against New Zealand\u2022 Coach defends Bundee Aki\u2019s right to represent IrelandTest rugby is no place for the faint-hearted. With this in mind, Joe Schmidt has predicted another \u201cspiky\u201d clash with the All Blacks which will, in the visitors\u2019 minds at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}