Familiar foes Australia and Ireland meet again on the opening weekend of the inaugural Nations Championship in Sydney.
This Test and the games against France and Italy to follow serve as a Wallabies farewell for Joe Schmidt, with the former Ireland coach set to hand over to Les Kiss later in the year.
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He will hope to get one over a former colleague in Andy Farrell, who assisted Schmidt with Ireland before stepping up to the top job, and also bested his old boss in last year’s British and Irish Lions series.
But with Ireland heavily hit by injury, Australia may just fancy
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