JOE SCHMIDT SAYS he expects to hear back from Irish rugby bosses by the end of next week after his interview with the IRFU in recent days.
The Leinster boss is the favourite to succeed Declan Kidney as national team boss.
“We had a really good chat,” Schmidt said on the Late Late show tonight, where he appeared to talk about his nine-year-old son’s experience of epilepsy.
“To be honest they know me pretty well and I know them pretty well. We probably know each other too well and neither of us are sure about it. But yeah whoever gets the job it’s a super job. It’s one of the big jobs in rugby and for me one of the things that it would allow is… week to week it’s a seven-day working week for me at the moment.
“Just with a national team when the team are in camp it’s very, very busy but it would give me a little bit of flexible time and available time to help and support Luke and certainly my wife in looking after him.”
Asked when he expects a decision from the union, the two-time Heineken Cup winner added: “I think toward the end of next week. I know it won’t be long because for me I made a commitment to Leinster and I did say to them that I was fully committed to that and prepared to continue with that but they have encouraged me to at least engage in the conversations and we’ll see what comes of it.
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