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 group’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 “take pleasure in 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 one in all them simply after we’ve misplaced. However I can’t be anticipated to disregard that.”
Sexton could have retired however the dangerous 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 position 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 simple tonight.
“… In the case of recreation days, I don’t let the emotion dictate my week. I like the spectacle of rugby and what I can affect to create.
“Emotions have been harm, stuff was stated 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. (Photograph by Dan Mullan – RFU/The RFU Assortment through Getty Photographs)
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 attempt in 39 Assessments sealed a deserved success for the All Blacks at a sold-out Aviva Stadium, including to 6 Damian McKenzie penalties.
Eire, who have been crushed by the Kiwis within the quarter-finals of final yr’s World Cup in France, conceded 13 penalties throughout the course of a stop-start affair and have been unable to construct on a 13-9 lead following Josh van der Flier’s rating early within the second half.
Farrell stated: “(I’m) dissatisfied. 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 nicely, skilled nicely, I assumed we have been excited concerning the recreation and we have been.
“We didn’t handle to place our recreation out on the sphere. Clearly the opposition have a giant say in that however I assumed we compounded too many errors and virtually suppressed ourselves a bit of bit at occasions.
“The accuracy wasn’t what was wanted to win a giant Take a look at match like that.”
Eire had a person benefit when Van der Flier plundered the sport’s opening attempt within the forty third minute as a consequence of Jordie Barrett being sin-binned for a excessive deal with on Garry Ringrose simply earlier than the break.
Nevertheless, 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 throughout 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 inclined to have it an excessive amount of in that dressing room,” stated 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 number of errors, due to the climate a bit of bit. It was a sluggish sufficient recreation at occasions and we would have liked to be in control of taking care of our vitality and we didn’t do this nicely sufficient.”
(With AAP)
