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Published 09:54 27 Jan 2019 GMT
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"I don't believe that's it's necessary and I'd like to think there's still a sense of fair play... But I know it happens. I know it has happened to us a couple of times - but I don't think you get distracted by it. "When you get the feedback, when it filters back, you're disappointed but you kind of acknowledge, 'OK, well, that's their process, that's their way of collecting information'. It was stumbled upon at the time - or one of the times. You just get on with it."
Schmidt said his attitude at the time was to shrug his shoulders and get on with it because 'if you were paranoid about it you'd never actually train properly'. That being said, Carton House - Ireland's training base - does have high fences up around the training pitches, which are manned by security staff.
Schmidt says he does not, and never has, spied on teams to get ideas but he did admit he would scour footage of games across the world and steal certain moves that may benefit his team. As he remarked after the New Zealand win, in November, there is no patent on rugby moves.
The subject of spying in rugby was discussed on the most recent episode of JOE UK's House of Rugby [from 35:00 below], with Northampton and England forward James Haskell claiming the practice of spying on the opposition was, at one time, commonplace.
https://youtu.be/w6aJPU2pylM
Former England captain Mike Tindall commented:
"I know for a fact that, in the past, if team did their captain's run at the stadium, you'd always record them because they're in your stadium. "If they are playing away, you can put a camera wherever you want, in Twickenham. And you can just record it and try to get their lineout calls. Why would you not do it?"Fortunately for Ireland, their Six Nations opener against England is taking place in Dublin's Aviva Stadium next Saturday.
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