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Published 17:26 8 Feb 2020 GMT
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"As someone out there making those decisions, I think we had two or three penalties on the bounce, could have taken the points but we still would have been behind. It was a bit of a gamble but we got that try, albeit disallowed. I did find the penalties that we had were building, building so potentially... I'm not going to blame Romain (Poite), I'm not saying we needed a card earlier, but we felt from a discipline point of view we were exerting pressure on them. Yeah, we got the card later on in the game (CJ Stander) but that's by the by. The pleasing thing is we did get the drive, the driving try, but they obviously from a points perspective they got another one at the end as well. It was a big game-shifter."New Head Coach Wayne Pivac also accepted how big a moment it was, but accepted the referee's call;
"It's a big decision, but the decision was right. He didn't have control. So, we didn't get rewarded with the points. But certainly, it wasn't through want of effort, but as Alun's mentioned with 20 minutes to go, it's game on at that point."With a rest week coming up, Ireland have a fortnight to prepare for a daunting trip to face World Cup finalists England in Twickenham, while Wales get ready to host one of only two sides left in the tournament capable of achieving a Grand Slam: France.
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