Andy Farrell laments Ireland performance after New Zealand end home unbeaten streak
Ireland lost 23-13 on the night but, in truth, the scoreline was flattering.
Andy Farrell admitted he was disappointed with more than just the result, Ireland had played poorly, lacked accuracy, the best side won.
It was a 'sombre' dressing room, Ireland's 19 game winning streak in Dublin had come to end and the hope is that things can pick up next Friday against Argentina.
"The dressing room, really, it is pretty sombre. The lads are gutted, we're all gutted together. I thought we prepped well, trained well, I thought we were excited about the game and we were.
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"It's a funny old feeling because we don't tend to have it too much in that dressing room. That's life, congratulations to New Zealand.
"We didn't manage to put our game out on the field. Obviously the opposition have a big say in that but I thought we compounded too many errors and almost suppressed ourselves a little bit at times. The accuracy wasn't what was needed to win a big Test match like that.
"We move on, we have to do. We have to find the solutions as soon as we possibly can because we've got a hungry side in Argentina, who are playing some really good rugby at this moment in time, (coming next). We need to get back on the horse and start it all over again."
The penalty count, finishing 13-5 in New Zealand's favour, was a big part in Ireland's downfall.
"We'll get a few answers in regards to clarification of a few of them. But it doesn't matter whether it was wrong or right. We still shouldn't have suppressed ourselves.
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"It's not right to try and be desperate chasing your tail when you've made an error, whether it be a penalty or a drop ball, and then compound that error with another error and all of a sudden field position has completely gone.
"Points come on the back of that and we did that a number of times. We need to fix up our mentality as far as that's concerned, getting back to neutral and getting the ball back the way we want it. We became a little bit too desperate and on the back of that the energy or the accuracy wasn't what was needed.
"I actually thought the game was stop-start, it was a bit scrappy. There were a lot of errors, because of the weather a little bit. It was a slow enough game at times and we needed to be in charge of looking after our energy and we didn't do that well enough.
"The turning point was the crucial penalty from the scrum. They kicked the goal and it started going in their favour and we compounded it after."
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