It’s unlikely to bring any comfort to Ireland that they brought the full wrath of the All Blacks upon themselves in Tokyo. With the good old magic of hindsight, maybe Ireland shouldn’t have poked the bear as hard as they did last November. What they learned after losing in Dublin is that they needed a fairly major re-think about the way they were attacking. We saw all this in Tokyo and a team that could barely make a linebreak in Dublin scored seven tries and bombed a couple more. The All Blacks victory was achieved in Tokyo — but very much conceived in Dublin.

Source: Irish Examiner October 21, 2019 04:30 UTC