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The Irish captain made a wry comment about the New Zealander in the post-match briefing that suggested his illness was not too serious. 'The guys were aware Joe was sick; he was kind of stand-offish,' he remarked.
The only other time O'Connell's mask slipped was when he was asked if he had a Christmas message for an oft-times critical George Hook, he said, 'When we watch the game, all the commentary has gone off it and you can just hear the Ref-link with it, which is hard enough, so I didn't hear (Hook's) comments.' O'Connell paused, smiled, and added, 'Sure we're well used to it at this stage.
As if to drive the point home, Rory Best spoke of being in a similar situation to the one his team currently finds themselves in.
The hooker said, 'In 2006 the team did something and won three games then some 11 months later at the World Cup it didn't go according to plan. For us we've talked about learning lessons. We've talked about closing games out and taking each game as it comes. Now it is very much a case of doing it again.
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