Joe Schmidt spent the last two years as a senior advisor to Ian Foster, helping to orchestate the turnaround that took the All Blacks to last year’s World Cup final. While Scott Robertson’s arrival has changed the New Zealand environment, Schmidt can still count upon inside knowledge to some degree as he looks to get one over his compatriots.

The Greatest Game of Rugby Ever Played or Game of the Century is how the first Bledisloe Cup test of the new millennium is referred to these days. On July 15, 2000, 109,874 people witnessed a 10-try,