Simon Zebo: Joe Schmidt’s double standards drove me mental, made me dislike the Irish camp Ireland’s head coach nailed the build-up to the clash with the All Black
I can go through all my caps and pick out plays and moments in games where a team-mate missed a horrendous tackle, one-on-one, and just dived at the floor to pretend he had made an attempt, to make it look like an ankle tap or whatever. But really, he was just diving on the floor. However, if I stayed on my feet and tried to make a tackle, which I have done to every player in my career, and I lost to better offence, I would invariably be singled out in front of the squad at a review. But if it was anyone else? Rob or Felix or Earlsy or whoever, in the review Joe would say: “Oh mate, I know you can do better than that.” And then he’d quickly move on, almost as if it did not happen. That double standard drove me mental, and drove me to dislike Irish camp.
What a sad indictment of a moaner. Zeno saw the writing on the wall and went to France. Once in France all he did was moan about Sexton being picked from France while he wasn’t. If you read the above you won’t have to read his badly written book.
Accusing his team mates of not tackling is something g I’ve not heard of since playing under 8’s. You were an average player Zebo which is why you got dropped now take your few pieces of silver a FO!