Ireland under Schmidt remind me a bit of Spurs under Pochettino. Well drilled and super organised, very much at variance with history and stereotype but lacking a bit in real quality and inspiration. With Sexton out there was a real lack of guile in back line outside of Murray. Finn Russell and Stuart Hogg are real quality players and there’s a bit of decent quality elsewhere in that Scottish backline as well:
Laidlaw is a top class goal kicker and a good club scrum half and an ok international 9. There are at least 4 scrum half’s better than him in the 6N (Murray, Webb, davies & Youngs…possibly Care as well).
He was excellent yesterday in fairness.
Edit. I was only thinking of Lions nations. There are 2 better 9s than him in france squad