Rieko Ioane led the haka after which the celebrations. The All Blacks centre was the villain of Aviva Stadium and roundly booed at each flip however ended up having probably the most scrumptious of final laughs following his staff’s resounding 23-13 win in Dublin.
Ioane was the centre of consideration after the current publication of Irish legend Johnny Sexton’s ebook. In it Sexton claimed Ioane informed him to “get pleasure from retirement you c–t.”
“A lot for the All Blacks’ well-known “no dickheads” coverage,”wrote Sexton. “A lot for his or her humility. I stroll after Ioane and name him a fake-humble f–ker. It doesn’t look nice, me having a go at certainly one of them simply after we’ve misplaced. However I can’t be anticipated to disregard that.”
Sexton might have retired however the unhealthy feeling was evident even in his absence.
Ioane was fired up as he led the Haka for the primary time, and following the sport he was savage on social media posting on Instagram: “Put that within the ebook” and a Joker card emoji.
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Ioane informed Sky afterwards: “I used to be clearly extra nervous for the kaea function and main that haka than I used to be concerning the recreation.
“With such nice leaders like TJ (Perenara), Codie (Taylor) to assist me out, it got here fairly snug and fairly straightforward tonight.
“… Relating to recreation days, I don’t let the emotion dictate my week. I really like the spectacle of rugby and what I can affect to create.
“Emotions had been harm, stuff was mentioned however I’m simply right here to play footy and win video games.”
Eire head coach Andy Farrell was “gutted” by the loss.
Rieko Ioane. (Picture by Dan Mullan – RFU/The RFU Assortment by way of Getty Photos)
The Six Nations champions went into their autumn opener as favourites earlier than crashing to a primary house loss in 20 matches courting again greater than three years.
Will Jordan’s thirty seventh strive in 39 Checks sealed a deserved success for the All Blacks at a sold-out Aviva Stadium, including to 6 Damian McKenzie penalties.
Eire, who had been crushed by the Kiwis within the quarter-finals of final 12 months’s World Cup in France, conceded 13 penalties throughout the course of a stop-start affair and had been unable to construct on a 13-9 lead following Josh van der Flier’s rating early within the second half.
Farrell mentioned: “(I’m) upset. It’s simply summed up with the temper of the dressing room, actually: it’s fairly sombre.
“The lads are gutted, we’re all gutted collectively. I assumed we prepped properly, skilled properly, I assumed we had been excited concerning the recreation and we had been.
“We didn’t handle to place our recreation out on the sphere. Clearly the opposition have an enormous say in that however I assumed we compounded too many errors and nearly suppressed ourselves somewhat bit at instances.
“The accuracy wasn’t what was wanted to win an enormous Take a look at match like that.”
Eire had a person benefit when Van der Flier plundered the sport’s opening strive within the forty third minute attributable to Jordie Barrett being sin-binned for a excessive sort out on Garry Ringrose simply earlier than the break.
Nonetheless, repeated infringements sucked life out of the capability crowd and decisively swung the encounter again in New Zealand’s favour.
Defeat for Eire was solely a second on house soil through the Farrell period following a 15-13 loss to France in February 2021.
“It’s a humorous previous feeling as a result of we don’t are likely to have it an excessive amount of in that dressing room,” mentioned Farrell.
“That’s life, congratulations to New Zealand.
“There’s no excuses for us. The opposition, lengthy story brief, deserved to win. I truly thought the sport was stop-start, it was a bit scrappy.
“There have been a whole lot of errors, due to the climate somewhat bit. It was a sluggish sufficient recreation at instances and we would have liked to be answerable for taking care of our power and we didn’t do this properly sufficient.”
(With AAP)
