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Published 11:31 19 Jul 2022 BST
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"As lopsided as the score is," Ronan O'Gara reflected, "on Monday morning, you start on 0. "And Ireland will receive some good messages from that [game]. I still think, and many people will think I'm crazy, that Ireland can win a Test."Some may have nodded in agreement as ROG said the word 'crazy', but there was a similar sentiment in the Ireland dressing room. Speaking with the travelling Irish press in the 'mixed zone' at Sky Stadium, Wellington, on Saturday night, Tadhg Beirne recalled that cool, calm, collected Eden Park chat:
"It was a weird feeling after that game. We lost, yes, and we were disappointed we lost, but everyone in the dressing room knew there were moments - little snippets when we got things right. "We felt, coming out of the game, that on any other day we could have beaten them. We just had to get our own stuff right."There was another moment that the Eadestown native had crystal clear in his mind. It was a team meeting called by Andy Farrell the day after the squad had landed in Auckland.
"He said we can make history by becoming the first Ireland team to win away in New Zealand but that we should not be satisfied with just that," Beirne recalled. "'We want to win the series,’ Andy said. He put the question to us - 'Did we believe?' Not one of us had any doubts."Some would have doubted whether Ireland could turn over the All Blacks, even off the back of their Triple Crown achievement and with a squad packed with talent. Many more would've jumped off the train after 42-19 at Eden Park. Beirne and his teammates stayed on-board and it was them that de-railed the All Blacks in the space of two weeks, and two memorable victories.
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