After the furore surrounding the common sense social media guidelines handed down to England's players ahead of the World Cup, Joe Schmidt has confirmed that he doesn't intend to implement similar rules.
Well not really, he's actually just confirmed that Ireland's players won't be getting a similar list of commands like "Do not post when you are in a bad mood or immediately after a tough loss". Whether that's because Ireland's players don't need it, or because they have been given these instructions already wasn't answered.
Schmidt did confirm that a "common sense approach" to social media will be taken (via the Irish Independent):
I'd sympathise with Stu Lancaster and his staff in trying to manage things when you're the host country. It is a lot more difficult. Your profile sky-rockets.
England, because of their population and the interest they generate, are going to have a lot of media following them. I can understand why they are very conscious of it.
It is not something, thankfully, we've had to be as conscious of, but there is an awareness that everybody is equipped with a camera these days.
It's still far from Schmidt live-tweeting his deeply detailed analysis sessions, but we live in hope.
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