Eire had gained their previous 19 residence video games and had misplaced simply as soon as at Aviva Stadium since spherical one of many 2019 Six Nations, however they had been deservedly overwhelmed in a sport the place indiscipline and errors proved their undoing.
Farrell refused to pinpoint Eire’s lack of video games as a motive for his facet’s shortcomings.
Eire had not performed since their summer season tour of South Africa, with New Zealand coming into the sport having performed eight fixtures in that point.
“We have at all times prided ourselves on getting up to the mark and being pretty much as good as we presumably will be first sport up as a result of that’s the playing cards we’re handled,” Farrell added.
“It does not matter if in case you have had three coaching classes and 12 minutes of video games or seven consecutive video games and 50 coaching classes, you attempt to be your finest and we weren’t.”
Even after a below-par first half show, Farrell defined that he was calm at half-time versus offended to attempt to assist Eire analyse the place that they had been going fallacious.
“I did not [shout], you choose and select your moments [to do so], there have been a couple of issues to repair,” Farrell continued.
“Getting these factors over of get again within the sport and provides them an understanding of why they had been feeling like they had been necessary, and we got here out of the blocks in a unique method.”
Farrell additionally conceded that Eire might want to lower out dealing with errors to get again to successful methods in opposition to Argentina, who thrashed Italy on Saturday night.
“We had a little bit of overplaying an excessive amount of – in these circumstances the standard of move wasn’t the place it wanted to be to be correct.”
