Simon Easterby's inside knowledge can be Joe Schmidt's trump card

By Ruaidhri O'Connor


– 06 March 2015Simon Easterby's knowledge of the opposition, however, goes deeper than most ahead of the Six Nations showdown tomorrow week.

Ireland's forwards coach's wife Sara Elgan-Easterby is the daughter of Wales international Harold Elgan-Rees and they still live in the Principality.

When he was Scarlets coach, Easterby handed a host of the players he'll be coaching against next weekend their debuts.

In turn, now Wales coach Warren Gatland gave the former flanker his first cap when he was Ireland supremo, while he would regula…