Andy Farrell says Eire should treatment the psychological shortcomings which induced them to change into “desperate” throughout a disheartening Dublin defeat to New Zealand.
The Six Nations champions slipped to a disappointing 23-13 loss of their Autumn Nations Collection opener after being punished for a raft of errors and repeated infringements.
An inquest into Friday night’s underwhelming show at an expectant Aviva Stadium is about to start when gamers return to camp on Sunday.
Head coach Farrell admits there may be vital room for enchancment forward of upcoming appointments with Argentina, Fiji and Australia.
“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 dropped ball, and compound that error with another error and all of a sudden field position is gone and points come off the back of that,” mentioned Farrell.
“We did that various occasions. We have to repair up our mentality so far as that is involved, getting again to impartial and getting the ball again in the way in which that we wish it.
“We became a little bit too desperate and, on the back of that, the energy wasn’t what was needed, or the accuracy.”
Eire should regroup forward of Argentina’s go to to Dublin on Friday
New Zealand’s deserved victory, secured by six Damian McKenzie penalties and a Will Jordan strive, halted Eire’s successful run on house soil at 19 matches.
It additionally inflicted additional distress on the hosts following the All Blacks’ 28-24 triumph within the quarter-finals of final yr’s World Cup in France.
“We move on,” mentioned Farrell. “We have to.
“Now we have to seek out the options as quickly as we probably can as a result of we have a hungry aspect in Argentina [on Friday] who’re enjoying some actually good rugby at this second in time.
“We need to get back on the horse and start it all over again, don’t we?”
Josh van der Flier scored Eire’s solely strive on a irritating evening in opposition to New Zealand
With New Zealand centre Jordie Barrett within the sin bin following a excessive deal with on Garry Ringrose, Josh van der Flier’s strive briefly threatened to show a scrappy contest in Eire’s favour.
However Farrell’s males paid a heavy value for committing 21 dealing with errors, conceding 13 penalties and lacking 30 tackles, along with repeatedly being second finest at turnovers, rucks and lineouts.
“We’ll get a few answers in regard to clarification over a few of them but it doesn’t really matter whether it was wrong or right,” Farrell mentioned of the excessive penalty depend.
“We still should have suppressed ourselves a little bit.”
New Zealand’s victory constructed on final weekend’s 24-22 win over England at Twickenham.
Following the success, Kiwi centre Rieko Ioane opted to stir the pot in his simmering feud with former Eire captain Johnny Sexton.
The pair clashed after the All Blacks’ World Cup win in Paris, with Sexton subsequently detailing the alternate in his recently-released autobiography.
“Put that in the book,” Ioane posted on Instagram, alongside footage of him main the Haka.
