Jul 23, 2026 · 26 min · 9 segments
Alan Quinlan is with Stuart McAvoy to look back on Ireland's defeat in Auckland. Quinlan also gives his thoughts on the positives and negatives over the last couple of weeks. * * * Hosted on Acast…
Alan QuinlanGuestStuart McAvoyHost
Um, I actually had a positive enough kind of feeling after that game yesterday.
Spoken to some of my rugby colleagues and different people who cover, you know, the rugby in the, in the media as well, and, and there's a mixed kind of bag about, um, obviously where, where we're at and, uh, the performance and, and all that kind of stuff.
Um, no matter how good we were, no matter how good any team is, um, it's an incredibly difficult place to win.
It was tight enough game, but New Zealand, uh, you know, beat an incredible South African team.
We saw what happened a couple of, a week or two later, uh, uh, following week, I think, down in Wellington.
So no matter who plays them, uh, particularly there, uh, it's an incredibly difficult place to go.
So pre-match, it was always gonna be just a, a mammoth task for Ireland to go and win.
Um, and there was a lot of mistakes and uncharacteristic errors, Andy Farrell called them.
James Ryan dropped the ball when they were in good attacking areas, uh, from a carry.
And when you play a team like New Zealand and you w- you, you play, you know, away from home, you, you have to minimize those mistakes.
The flip side of that, New Zealand were outstanding, and Will Jordan, uh, Josh Morby, Damian McKenzie, wow, phenomenal players.
So the wave after wave of attack was, was difficult to withstand and hold, and you just gotta be-- You, you gotta turn up and be near, near perfection to, to get a result against them.
Um, I actually had a positive enough kind of feeling after that game yesterday.
Spoken to some of my rugby colleagues and different people who cover, you know, the rugby in the, in the media as well, and, and there's a mixed kind of bag about, um, obviously where, where we're at and, uh, the performance and, and all that kind of stuff.
Um, no matter how good we were, no matter how good any team is, um, it's an incredibly difficult place to win.
It was tight enough game, but New Zealand, uh, you know, beat an incredible South African team.
We saw what happened a couple of, a week or two later, uh, uh, following week, I think, down in Wellington.
So no matter who plays them, uh, particularly there, uh, it's an incredibly difficult place to go.
So pre-match, it was always gonna be just a, a mammoth task for Ireland to go and win.
Um, and there was a lot of mistakes and uncharacteristic errors, Andy Farrell called them.
James Ryan dropped the ball when they were in good attacking areas, uh, from a carry.
And when you play a team like New Zealand and you w- you, you play, you know, away from home, you, you have to minimize those mistakes.
The flip side of that, New Zealand were outstanding, and Will Jordan, uh, Josh Morby, Damian McKenzie, wow, phenomenal players.
So the wave after wave of attack was, was difficult to withstand and hold, and you just gotta be-- You, you gotta turn up and be near, near perfection to, to get a result against them.
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